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Even the Metropolitan Radical Federation, usually anti-
xmperialiot, thought that JaueEon was more to be pitied
than blamed, and called on the Government to remove the
name of the Garman Emperor from the Arrays and Navy lists,
At the cuggestion of war a voice criod "we're ready =+' (1
By May the 1eynoldo Newsparor had adopted a more
familiar position, the Raid had become "international
burglary, " (2)
and the ecntence of fifteen ciontho
imprisonment for Jcu eoon was hailed with "serve then
right'*'
j&ngoiou,
(3)
The paper tried to rationalise ito lapee into
- "Thora wan a time when the first news of the
Raid reached this country and when nn yet the real facts
of the case had been ouccessfully concealed, when it wan
possible for a Democrat to feel cont3iderablo sympathy
with the undertaking. " (4)
But the fact roaairt ed that
the Radical press had succumbed to the jingoism of the
immediate aftermath of the Raid.
Though soot of the Nonconformioto abhorred the
Raid as a serious breach of international morality, there
(1) Reynolds Newnparer, 12th January 1896.
(2) bldg 19th May 18969
(3) Ibidl 2nd August 1896, E
(4) kid,