The McGill Episode; Hearst Story False

To the Editors of the CRIMSON:

The Harvard Canadian Club requests you to give prominence to the following official statement by General Sir Arthur Currie, Principal and Vice-Chancellor of McGill University, in reference to certain statements made by the Boston Advertiser and discussed in your columns.

"The statement that a 'howling mob of McGill University students here tore down an American flag in Montreal on November 20th, spat on its trampled it underfoot and then did a snake dance on the soiled and trampled remnant,' is wholly and unqualifiedly untrue. The entire story which follows, established on these false premises, is equally untrue."

The "Ottawa Citizen" of December 13th states that the story had been brought to the attention of United States Consul General Halstead at Montreal, who stated, in reply, that he had never considered the story seriously. O. F. W. ELLIS 3G.,   President.   D. CLARK HYDE 4G.,   Honourary-Secretary.   December 16, 1920.