THE PEACE CRUSADE IN OLDHAM - NEWSPAPER REPORTS

TUESDAY 7th AUGUST 1917
OLDHAM STANDARD
MEN WHO ARE TRAITORS

Sir Archibald Williamson, M.P. for Moray and Nairn, addressing a public meeting at Nairn yesterday, said Germany was trying to work through Socialism, for which she had little or no sympathy. The man who advocated peace without security for the future was a traitor to his country and to the generations unborn.

DENUNCIATION OF PEACE-MONGERS

A vigorous denunciation of peace-mongers was made at an Australian war anniversary meeting on Sunday, by Mr. Hughes of Melbourne, who moved a resolution recording Australia's inflexible determination to go on until Germany's military despotism was no more.

Peace demonstrations, he said, must be regarded as plague spots. People prattled of peace yet enjoyed the liberties maintained by the men fighting in the trenches. He would sooner believe that Satan was coming to the Throne of Grace than that Germany was sincere in her desire for peace, except in her own interests.

"IINTERN THEM ALL"

"It is only playing the game of our enemies, if people will cause panic and rioting," said the West London magistrate in dismissing a charge against Miss Mary M. Beaumont, and a counter-charge of assault she brought against the policeman who arrested her.

Miss Beaumont was outside the shop of a German baker, who had been in this country 40 years, who is naturalised, and whose eldest son is in the British Army. She was wearing a medal inscribed "Intern Them All," and was asking people to sign a petition to the Home Secretary for the internment of all enemy aliens.