Gang-gang - 100 years ago: Sydney wartime gutter press stokes anti-German frenzy

By Ian Warden
Updated December 1 2015 - 12:13am, first published November 30 2015 - 11:45pm
Anti-German fervour put green turtle soup in the firing line in 1915.
Anti-German fervour put green turtle soup in the firing line in 1915.

There was a rabidly anti-Germans mood in the Australia of 1915 and 100 years ago this week it was being served and stoked by Sydney's rabid Mirror of Australia. Was there a word of truth in its story "PIGS IN CLOVER"?

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