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Show DRITISH PRESS . Ill OPEN ATTACK ji Oil BIRKENHEAD Earl's Statements Regard-v Regard-v in? , Former President ::, Bring No .Praise From ' the English Newspapers , . asasssaa-s-ssaasw. I LONDON. Aug. T.---Th Earl of Birkenhead has received little sym-pathy sym-pathy from ths British press for his . position as result of the first ad-- ad-- dress of his American tour dellv-I; dellv-I; ered last Friday before th Inst I -, - tuts of Pou'tlea at WUllamstown. ' , In fact- the preas tends to heap i . . coals on the fire laid by Henry Breckenrldge. assistant secretary of war, under President Wilson, when he criticised the Earl for remarks , , I about Mr. Wilson. i Ths Morning Post asserts thst "the effect of Blrkenhrsd's Injuoea-" Injuoea-" ' fous remarks Is to confirm ths Isolationists Iso-lationists In ths wisdom of their I . policy of turning their becks on . , Europe.' . . 'n in editorial hesded ,LEnfsnt ' ; terrible abroad.' the Daily News i ''says that the ftilllsh do wot like i the American tariff laws, but would 14 wslcome an almost prohibitive tariff ' on the importation of former mem- ) here of British cabinets snd a rigid customs sxsmlnstlon of ths ron- tents of helr lecture tour port , foltot. ' Ths Westminster Oasetts hopes , --thst nndue imoortenrs will not ba attached to Birkenhead's worda ss- ssrting that there sre fsw polltl- elans In England today who apeak so exclusively for themselves as , , i doea Birkenhead. ' The Weetmtneter Gasette points out ths unfalmsss of arguing tnei ' Wootlrow Wilson Is th agent of the .. poetwsr renditions. . Ths Dstly Herald, ths labor news- - ' psper. offers sn spology for tbs sx -"hsneellor, aaying: "Tie haa long been regarded as a , national nuisance snd now haa be- , 4 some- a national denger.' " ' Some of th afternoon pep ere. ''however, etaunchly defend terd , Blrkenhesd's remarks concerning , Mr. Wilson and take tha poeltlon that "too much fuaa" Is being made over tha Incident In America. . . - The Pall Mall Gnsetts says; - "The addreee contained -nothing that we ehould have thought to -be other I haa anlveraally recognised ; truths." |