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Show SECTION THREE SATURDAY MARCH lfEIO SALT 13 Famous In English Editor! Virulent Campaign Against United States Horatio Bottomley, Americans City Placarded With Signs Reading "Americas Insult to Our Brought His Paper Big Circulation Intelligent Classes Do Not Take ff March 2. CITY UTAH TEN On Member of Parliament and Editor of John Bull,1 Conducting Vitriolic Attacks on America and Dead etc. Bottomley's Record War Helped Him Live Down Episodes in His Early Career and Seriously and His Diatribes Not Representative of Better Part of British Population. ' xlim X "--i i & , T ? capitals: AMERICA'S INSULT TO OUR DEAD. y jrurh it tba Iff end carried by moot of that aign and potter, bot in tome ratea varied is by tho words, also in flaunting capital: it MORE SWANK FROM UNCLE 8AM" and IS mam-displa- 0 AMERICA OUR FRIEND?" Those potters and signs nro advertisement of a February iasue of John Bull, tho weakly paper that waa founded and It edited by Horatio Bottoml,K.P ., wboae latest stunt contltta b dolnf hi beat b create haired and distrust of the United State throughout Great Britain. Bottomley it one of the greatest advertisers, in every aenSe of the word, b this country, and, go where one will, even bto the smallest hamlet, it it impossible to escape thee reiterations of America's Insult to Our Dead," and the rest of his raiarhicf-makinmalevolent and, without the slight- tarSaalarv at Maraila Jake Mall. S raa 1 ka Marti, (.a Mar SiimI,Utlaa if iff PAGES Foreign News vt: moiteUr m it that bDIboardf, Including in the tbs world, poaaibly biggest oo throo-ohoposters b ths underground "tubas, oa board carried by oaodwlcbmofl b tho streets, and on tho art tr of a .yenodicnl that it ditplayod prominently on every book tail, Uia fo'lowinc appeared racantly to eurlnf ONDON', LAKE a ' baronets, Rif Archibald Sinclair, of the 2nd Life Guards, who U lord of 95,000 acres; but if the beautiful Fla via fails to ga this several better, a lot af people will acknowledge thcmselrea bad forarasters. Only la her eighteenth year, with an abundance of hair of Titian rod, a pricelesa completion and a figure made supple by lots ef riding and golf, she is a favorita partner at Mayfair dances and it looks as if she would keep Cupid busy rvplenithing kit supply of darts." You will gather that she has no great need ef social sponaors," but, on tha prin-cipl- a aha poaaesaea powerful onaa in mother being a alster of the Earl of the dowager Duchesa of Sutherland, sad of tha beaotiful and famous Countess and Lady Algernon Gordon-Lenno- at s Her elder sistej; Marigold, did pretty well in marrying on of the richest of tho younger English plenty, ber Roaslya and r a of Warwick half-siste- i; Memories are short and regrettable incidents" quickly forgotten, ao Miaa Flavias career Is likely to be affactod to no extant that matters by the unhappy affair of. tha officers' esntoea at I a Too-que- t. Lady Angelia Forbes, Fla via mamma, a!- S renowned aa a fair aristocrat who had dabready o bled socceaafnlly la trade, written novels and dona many other stunts, established tha canteen for the use of British officers serving la France and everybody at home applauded and said how absolutely est doubt, deliberately misleading display signs. with riatU ripping I rirlM, iwmlit (Vis. To any American, whatever his feelings toward krtlsS Mmu, Ski With VIm XLwlS OfDIWssS. HalM Sf Maa f m Everybody, that it, except, after a while, the Wm 1 Her Ovi I Maks lira Mtrk Twlkaj lb Pntt S Otrt la Sarlatf. Has England may bof the poster constitute an offense ; that be at G. H. Q., and th war office who powers at Is Ssrlsly. Mat tar la a CaaaSiaa. t an American who, lika the writer of thia article, are said to have formed the opinion that life in and I'2 around th canteen was a trifle too colorful. Lady has lived here, for years, has been well treated, and got orders to demobilise and coma home, who warmly desires to tee Great Britain and tha thsn nine of these, by fsr th fattest of tha lot, Angela said, I have said. Not for all the yelping Yanks from home she came, with her bevy of fair eseie-Unt- s, and is not United States good friends, their appearance were marked significantly, Maine to Missiaaippi would I call back d word of ft." Litigation." vowing wngeaaco. A big inquiry, on tho only disgraceful, but in the nature of a positive Previous to 1905, th year in which he founded linea of that later instituted to investigate tbe plainte There is much more to the same effect which it calamity, because they are seen and read by millions was threatened by Lady John Bull, Bottomley engaged th attention of the ' of Miaa Douglas-Pennan- t, would be foolish to dignify by quotation. Bottomley with the to run ore who of away Britons, likely finally prevailed, w wind u with a malicious Insinuation that the Unita English courts fairly regularly in the capacity of Angelas friends, but discretion and sleeping dogs wers suffered to lit. frR Impression that America actually has, b some way, ed States is endeavoring to seduce Csnsda from her defendant In actions for fraud; subsequently he has Tbe noble Ertklne family to which pretty Fla-vi- a continued to enact this role and also has been the f d 4ast an affront upon the British fighters who gave loyalty to tha mother country. Forbes belongs has provided society scribe with jf their lives in the war. defendant in more actions for libel (arising out of much I admit quite candidly, he says, that I do piquant copy." Its present head, th festive The, methods of both John Bull.,nd its editor his various unmasking. in - John Bull) than Lord Rossi yn, has adorned tho theatrical profeaainn not at all like the look of things across the Herring-ponart far too well known in Great Britain to make it I cannot help thinking about that big naval s certainly any other one person in Great Britain. under his family patronymic- of Jamas Erskiae, 'edited .a paper. (now. defunct), .written a couple of likely that any iteratoln on the part of either should building program. r, In "many cateshi admitted Ibflftf AS a The Canadians have books, been a eoldier and a war correspondent, had betaken seriously by any intelligent person. One, amply proved their (he invariably conducts his own defense,) has enloyalty to the Old Country, but a couple of tries at breaking th bank at Monte reset hut sf Rml Issss sf Hsrstts MsS- hardly would have expected, however, that even he they are being sorely tried. Not only has their abled him to escape conviction, but in some cases Carlo and been married three time and divorced y sailers P stars. Jsks Bsil ( islalala would have placarded the whole country with such he has been stung pretty severely. twice. Hia sister, the Dowager Duchess of Sutherplaced upon their shoulders a heavy. financial. His Msst Slralrst Attsrk sa 1 altrS Slates. to without Dead Instill Our - I erlra's lasslt-ta.Aa- s a legend as "America $ land is widely famed for her picturesque philanthro- -' Alas' burden which their neighbors over the border have lta'r'Wu 'Miss- Alexandra-Knol- l y,-- a example, rMspIsreS sa Issnws Plsear4s All Over some kind of a logical foundation for a statement piee and for the splendor of her entertainment whet ' Isiita. escaped but their allegiance to the Mother Country daughter of Lord Knollys, formerly private secah queened it at Stafford House, and of hit two surwith such troublebreeding possibilities. is being artfully undermined by an insidious and to the king, was awarded $2,500 against John retary r, one, tha Countess of Warwick viving What is hia Justification? He finds it, or presubtle American propaganda. I am no scaremonger Bull which falsely stated that aha had eloped to th Brook of tbe famous baccarat case ill could Babbling which to afford lose; the subject of they tends that he does, in a speech delivered to what in which tha lata King Edward figured was perhaps gift of correctly reading the Signs and Portents. And some of the bitterest comments that have ever fallen France with a young officer. Bottomley described as an American society known I see, at no distant date, formal overture, by Ameri- the moat celebrated society woman of her time. It As comment upon Bottomleys record as a fifrom the ,ipa f British judjfw. A Unkrupt with one is now stated that she will be a candidate for ParlBottomley c. to Canada, as the Veterans of the World War. inviUng her to come into .the great judrment Ione of $250,000 against him. Tie had been nancier, it perhaps is sufficient to describe a cariament- in the labor interest. adds: It should be explained that in America the confederation of the United States. Not for, mo-- obliged to min hia in th, House of Common, toon which appeared lately in one of the most widely Lady Angela Forbes, the fair Flavias mother, term veteran is technically applied to any soldier ment do I harbor the idea that her response will the is British humorous London of circulated The him youngest of the five daughters of the late hU opportunity. Opinpapers, Beside, who was in France longer than a fortnight. be anything; other than' an indignant refUsabut Blanche, Lady Roselyn, who waa twice married. She ! Im-ion. cartoon It This one of a series entitled with the Iamlnill,.. the enemy of After whab then? quotes General Pershing as saying: divorced her husband. Captain James Forbes, of the ' Ah, theres the rUbl Again I toy, I, hu jR page,pof John Bull and out of them, probabilities.1 depicts: Mr. Bottomley return- -' 9th. Lancers, who- - afterwards remarried. Lady the tide of war had been turned by the Americans dont like that naval building program. I wish I ha tuniad to investors in his old compan- lost their and abJe orator he ing money ap and the Allied Forces had assumed the initiative, I Angela was never quit as renowned for personal ies." s, but comeliness as her four sisters and chose the Argonne sector for the Americans, because be constrained to do so. Meanwhile, watch America . at least one visit to measure. in abundant the has she . family versatility France, getting near enough to Bottomley was for soma time a clerk in a solici-NO- T I knew it was difficult; snd because of its importance, of none several has OF BRITISH OPINION the front to be She written novels, REPRESENTATIVE society photographed in a tin hat .Unquee- - tors office and for several yearn a shorthand writ-TJ-te being the nearest route to the German lines of comhowever, is to be mentioned in the same comment to needs be his that made efforts were of genuine scrv- - er at th London law courts, and it was in these which, with only recruiting tionably upen munication. It was necessary to cut through the of Mrs. Glyns Visits of Elizabeth, breath German army, fighting through a strongly fortified this orgy of vituperation is that it is not in the ice, and the persistent optimism that he displayed capacities that he picked up the legal knowledge that y which Lady Angela.,was at first supposed to be the of the general tone of throughout Was the means of keeping hia army of enables himself to describe himself in 'Whos Who as author. She is renowned in the hunting field as a terrain, and I knew none but the Americana could slightest degree representative British press comment on the present attitude of the unintelligent readers bucked up. hot, has brd dogs and harried on a chicken farm, Undoubtedly, in the do it In 1918 the Allies learned that the Americans generally regarded as the best is acknowledged to.be one of the best amaand were the best soldiers In Europe. Then they gave United States as regards the situation in Europe. The while grinding his. own private axe he did much to country.. However, he carefully avoids mentioning teur actresses In . society. disappointment that prevails here over Americas keep up the national spirit, and this may be counted actions in which he failed to emerge scathless.. them the right of way. ' Some years ago she .opened a. flower shop and j to 'date, to ratify the Peace Treaty and to him for righteousness. These, mark youf comments Bottomley, .are failure, up By dint of posing as an impassioned patriot, Bot- - did so well with it that she started another in resentment is in some the in that succeeded a as he. however, felt, Wild Throughout, on making a quarters, hack d not of a green-liverethe words, tomley has all but effaced the memory of his mis- - aristocratic Curzon street. She christened these of disinclination her his result ridiculous to all afford Jo further financial nd for some time served already people, of but paper, thinking his livelihood, section' of the com- - Vlishmenti My Sh?ps, West newspaper, shrieking for from the minds of a la of them Later she turned them livis herself, inone is still. never when He in ridiculous succeeded more tones has in. at it aid, expressed, commander-in-chiexpressed all, of the American forces, who the munity. In 1918, he succeeded in being which is still carrying on busiinto' company down of his characterized and one scarehead in -moderation, by temperance many ing many not so long ago was receiving the generous hospi- . posterayissued ag . Jependent.? member for South ness, riiinus, however. Its aristocratic founder, j ' before England's entry into the war, and accorded cases by complete understanding. he veteran real whose of this troops country, tality Hackney, (his former constituency,)' having, pra Devonshire Ladjt-- Angelas London home, la It is Horatio, Bottomley alone who assails the the same publicity now given to his aspersions upon vioualy succeeded Tin having hia - bankruptcy dia- now insults by implications which are as false as Charles Dickens, some that for of wag Terrace, years , United States in almost as bitter and indignant a tone the United States. This particular clarion-ca- ll of who wrote David Copperfield there. they are offensive. qualifications removed. all. Bottom-Th- e when denouncing Ger- - his read: To H I With Serbia!-anIt is on as slender's of the mob, he r Recognized as having the ear sucUnitof it have'never leys attempted explanations persistent campaign against the tio Bottomley, now a member of the British Par-- 1 many. as described contributes what are powerful articles - - ed States which he is now carrying on would not ceeded irt effacing its memory. is ment, accuses America on walla and billboards to a Sunday paper which claims, and probably' posHe Constantly made himself a laughing' stock. be orth noticing were it not that, as a writer, he -t- hroughout Great Britain, with insulting our dead. sesses, the biggest circulation of any journal pub, has a bigger audience than perhaps any other single too, by. authoritatively predicting the end of the war. lished in Great Britain on the Sabbath Fervently indeed would I welcome the Who is the prettiest society girl in Great Britday. . His of a Press Bureau that would restrain such publidst in Great Britain, and perhaps in alL.Eu-o- e One of his posters which promised, Peace By Christ- power for mischief both in and out' of Parliament is ain? Quite a lot of acknowledged. judges of feminine pulchritude unhesitatingly hand thia distinction alarmist, but I really believe I possess an uncanny mas was made especially absurd by events. creatures as Horatio Bottomley, M. P. from shriek- untold made been Seldom has effective more a to Mis Ruth Gellibrand, who came out this winter x rejoinder ing such things into the public ear, throughout the rope. The circulation of his paper, John Bull, is and than Labor immediately became renowned for her exceed" that of the leader, said to be close upon two million copies a week and length and breadth of the British Isles. She was on of. th most sought LOHUOll ing comeliness. ' to the bulk of its readers, who represent the unin- to Bottomry's attacks upon him. In the early days YELPING YANKS. the great opera ball recently orat after partners Is ."veritable gospel. Bottomley of the war,' Bottomley placarded alt England ; ganized by the American Lady Cunard, and sine The passages that have been quoted above form telligent mob, it the cry: To the Tower With Ramsey MacDonald! thenJias been the belle of every society function article by Bottomley that is, is probably the cleverest charlatan in Europe; this part of a double-pag- e was it she has oraannted with her presence. It recomment that MacDonalds the effect to was .which in spite from beginning to end, a tirade against the United is demonstrated by the facility with which, uncommon 'attractiveness to qualify as a on the been had see one quires who to sitting of, his known record, he' manages to get sway entertaining . States and its people. of beauty here, where pretty girls are so plensteps : of the jail for years setting hiqaself "Up"" a varied and picturesque activities have kept her In queen In the course of this diatribe, which is headed, .with hi. pose of fearless patriot,, good Sportsman, tiful as they are in London society. custodian of the Tower. . the public eye pretty steadily' for some years past, and unfailing friend of the masses. ' Miss Gellibrand is being generally spoken of as More Swank from Uncle Sam, Bottomley says: ' THE COURTS-is who iald tbe IN "' is since CONTINUALLY an American, but she, is really Canadian on her It not long faif Flavia, RECORD BEFORE THE WAR It ialhe truth I have told, and nothing but the mothers PrisTh the ide, pd by birth a Briton.' Her mother, heroine of var, and.the untbinking passions Desiring to refresh my memory as to the record to have been named after truth. 1 have said that Unde Sam filled his W. Clsrke Gellibrand, is a native of St. John ., Mrs. soto the world of I have said that the war aroused, that enabled this master of i of this brazen reprover of the United. State I asked oner of Zenda made New Brunswick, a daughter of the late Hon. James years before he filled hia cartridge-bel- t. as a beauty she is recognized, one of of fil ciety, yet already cohsult the biographical America finally came into the war, not to save' humbug'to rehabilitate himself Deever, of that cjty. Mr. Gallibrands husband, wlio win pause many masculine heart u who was an Englishman, died some years ago. her honor, but to save her akin. .1 have said that, now ' August, 1914, found him with hardly a shred of the leading Dondon dailies. Thia was accorded and embryo HAYDEN CHURCH. uncommon bnl match of a whom and for flutter howsHat the war is over, she means to arrange a cheap character, known as a promoter of companies in I was handed about fifteen bulky' envelopes of Marshall Syndicate, lac.) Edward the . (Copyright by is of bet one safest the going. devoted to Mr, Bottomley. No less liance following a cheap victory. And what I. have which thouaands . of pcrona had dropped money paper clippings -- v ' e. . - - jC' 7 Y t V trtW,l Am. tt . & r d. loy-alt- -- lFor - half-siste- Ha--the- n -- half-sister- lay-lawy- er - da ef Londons' Prettiest Society Girl? ' . Ramsey-MacDonal- A uUddHlg DG3Uty ' hew . Jeaee, . ' |