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The Saelic Cmenican.
\
os of the daily papers, the other
gave & num thods
ryan a milion dollars might be made,
nat omitted one certain eure way.
this:
Discover a piec ex
against Germany when
ish ship, with @ fee United States citi-
gens on board, strikes a mine planted
by the British themselves,
‘lemenceau say: mosniagiens
echange of phrases and empty tall of
ual admiratlo: on
Fre must com: nd." ‘The
Peach area quickewitted | People, but it
taken some e to
lize that England is vung white
ther ave doing the fighting,
Is Villa dead or “ducking?” is
en we remains undecided. as
in Salem, Mass., who
know.
we most een and propanly cares
God Ret
I} —only the bair at big temples is touch-
t's we the 180 of jetting into | ed wit!
o meat with him? Aren't C
It sends as well as for the good things?
‘The British Lord Lieutenant of Ire
in Athlone who
tilery ane
acy vith “the colors” till the
come hom ~
Jokn nation’ continues to aifnounce
that ipishmen are flocking to oes, ae
tose a the. Union
n
cows
THE GREAT GERMAN GUN.
It Was Inventod'in the Nick of
- Time Just Before the Outbreak
“of the War and Is- Intended
for Use in England When the
. Time’, Comes—Fritz Rausen-
berger, the Tnventer,
Gilbert” Hirsch, a@ letter from ‘Co-
penhagen, published in the New York
Evening P
» “somewhat
Richard Strauss,
somewhat like a less fanatical, more ef-
ficient, clean-shaven’ Nietzsel But in-
stead of the fanatical glare that appears
technical expert whose skill has hap-
pened to serve the German arm
an army officer whose ambition for
the, advancement
1 to abandon bie uniform
for technical studies, "He is still young
x
e
ray.. He would be quite cap-
is now one of the codirectors of the
Krupp works,
© Krupps, according to him, were
ordered to invent the gun and it’ took
han two years to > produce it. "It
portation of the. gi
according to. their Inventor, only ‘short-
ly before athe outbreak o
spite of thes
tion has re:
difficulty.
he words of Tiamlet,. *Jonn | these guns, 2
ie “protest too niuch.’ withdrawing them quickly, in case of a
oe udden, . unexpect ar of the
ithe British army showed the sims
enemy, has forced the Germans to mine
disposition to’ fight’ which the ‘members | the concrete bases whieh these guns
of the British Cabinet’ show to “scrap” | rest, so that tl can jlown up if
among themselves, the Russians and{in danger of failing ‘nto the enemy's
the French wouldn't have so much | hands,
» use for complaint. -
“England bas, put gold, silver and
fader money ant realizable securities
merican wat
leans fo the ‘Allies hate not yet bee een
Hist.
Geared contraban
= Finding that Holland meant’ to fight
tif. ¥as in a position to-do £0,:
«ies hav asrared hep ah o
to never, ded to. invade
“In this reapect he “Fat Berthas,’ as
the Germans call re much
inferior to the 86% ficentimn
guns of the Austrians, whieh are easily
moveable, and which, manner Aus-
trian gun-crews, played so prominent a
tat not a word said t at | with their mouths open, 200 feet away
al, at all, at the recent conference of | from the gun, whieh they set off by elec-
@ Allies tn’ Paris,” Real’ ni a twielty.
frlendly, | ent it? | This “will fe spite of all these drawbacks,
Greece eny . ~) | the ccens of the gun has been colossal.
with the Lor
ary ona push before they would settle
with Germ
it England, as her
lend, 1s fighting for liberty on ine Bu.
Topear with:
has been dan,
Keeland?
os tad
CARDINAL VISITS BRUSSELS
‘public men pre-
rty she
sling before ie voyes of
Douaumot
by the Allies to ‘the assembling
Germans of a rt of these f weavlest
aon in reality only one
art, gives some idea
he ‘42.
mors’ 0!
set up at Calais, as soon a
eed to pulvers the
he follnre
the Fri
Today
;| of the Germans to gain
coast, these rumors died down.
th eviving,
both countries for the near future, will
robably be preceded by another G
The tolowtng deep was sent by man attom to get a stretch of French
the Overseas New Aj cast ag a springboard; and that the
BERLIN, Sunday. “(by Wireless te ‘super: ae isa. real
Sayville, L, 1)—"Cardinal ,von, Hart-| - “1 have hei “what seems very
Rann, Archbishop of Cologne, arrived good authority, “that the new gun, like
today in Brussels, where be was re-| the siege gun, has a bore of 42 centh
ceived by Governor General, von Bis-| metres, that it, has a range of “tele
sree, but on the contrary always
foward rallous, social and charitable
Weclared that
tp ‘ Beletam with the consent of
Pope Bi
THE PHILO-CELTIC SOCIETY.
Tegular meeting of the New York
piece Soclety was held at Tuxedo | the tenis of moder, artery
K been exhaus|
‘all, Fifty-ninth Street and . Madison nave vom NMI turn the boasted de-
| fences of England into walls of glass,
ROSCOMMON ME MEN'S BALL.
Avenue, on Thursday, April 6, A larg
‘Mount of business was transacted and
committees
the reports of the various
thowed that the society was in a’ very
tourishing condition
bers were proposed
ad smite to the society, The presi-
Was unanimously decided
h a lecture w
on this city.
etal ‘will be announced next week.
ze
5
a
dina von Hartmann, expressly
he had undertaken the
to for-
i ne funds of
it
distance across the Channel’—
t it—and’
bolic curve which makes them appear,
to the occupants of a besieged fortress,
like dropping out of
| become low and flat, cannon that shoot
it
“thi
weross t]
e hardly takes the {route to conceal.
titink,’ he says, ‘that
y
‘Treasurer of the United Irish Counties’
Association, is Chair ran of the
mittee on Decor
The object of thie bat and entertain-
ment is 10 raise funds for the Roscom-
mon Football Club, recently orguniaed,
Which will bo affiliated with the
erning body of the Gaelic Athletic Asso.
ciation of America,
Prizes will be awarded to the best
fe, reel, and hornpine dancers at-the
ball
:
3
Prizes will also be awarded to the
best dancers of eight an
four hand reel. ‘Thomas Egan,
the famous Roscommon dancer, Thomas
Delegations from all the Trish socte-
ties worth their sait in Greater New
York and vic “yin attend the Ros-
common Jen e Roscommon
men of w York. stand for Ireland in
the present world , crisis, sand their
friends tn other orgadtzations are mind-
ful of that fact.
—_+-e—_
|REPORT RIOTS IN IRELAND.
The American papers a few days
puclished the following despatch:
BORLIN, April 14 (by wireless to
Sayville)—Advices received from Ams:
terdam by the Overseas;News Agency
state that political rioting in Ireland
has extended, and that street fighting
has occurred at several points along the
coast.
The British mititery authorities are
reported to have taken control at vari-
ous places, and to ‘have suppressed more
irish newspaper:
he Overseas News Agency is a yery
unreliable source of information. It
ent out several ite
shox India, Egypt and Treland which
‘oved to be either untrue or very
fnaccurate —Editor G. A.)
ago
MONUMENT CLUB GAMES.
When the Monument Club holds its
tty years of age fin
In addit! to the walk there will
a twenty-five mile team bicycle race,
consisting of two men Sy
scored on ne
nner,
mn addurance that
ver witness:
ed will be seen on that day... Gold stop
watches will be siven to the first team,
and gold. twenty year guaranteed
watches will be given to the second and
third teams.
The bicyele race will start at 2:15
P. the races a game
# Gaote tootball on be played by two
ot the leading Gaelic football teams.
—
SCOTCHMEN SENT TO JATL|
EDINBURGH, April 14.—Three men
were sentenced to prison to-day for
their connection with the recent strike
of munition mn workers on
arge of publishing Sodittous
articles william Gallagher, Chairman of
the Clyde Workers’ Committee, and
John W, M, Mulr, editor of the Work
the, committee, each
st
General Strathclyde sat he would
have sentenced the men to penal servi-
tude had they not apologized and
promised to obey the law in the future.
‘A sentence ot three years’ penal servi-
tude was imposed yesterday on John
Maclean, @ former teacher
convicted of similar offences,
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW.
Thou knave and ¢ a coward, meanest thing
“er dishonored human ind
We Irish scorn thy waspish stin
Son to thy mother’s virtue blind.
What thou, to oe in Judgment,- thou!
to wear the tyrant's
omehatny
His gyves have crushed thy soul, and
Not one ennobling thought remains.
With jibes and snecrs, “our foes will
quote
e to prove our country ase,
Behold, they'll native
"And proved: hig native land's s disgrace.
Did Judas by his trait’rous deed,
eflect dishonor on the rest?
How many a mother's heart must oe zed
¢ one she nestled to her brei
What Erin, though a renegade
t times thou dearest in thy ‘womb
Who fears to share thy lowly sh:
ad
Or struggle onward through the
gloom.
vet thousands for thy cause have aie
‘And will die ‘till that cause
‘Then Jet us cast in scorn aside
The mem'ry of this trait'rous son.
ENGLAND'S REIGN OF
TERROR IN IRELAND
(Continued from Page 1.)
Thomas Ryan, Mi
was arrested
charge of having left England to avoid
service in the army. As Moneymore,
County Tipperary, is his native home,
and ag he had only been a short term
in Bagla nd, hie reat, fe a pure act of
Court held "him. awalt-
Ing the srrival of a military: escort,
THE TULLAMORE PRISONERS,
At’ Tullamore, on March 27, thirteen
men charged in connection with the
shooting of County
Insp ector Crane,
istrict Inspecter eserald, jead-
Constable Stuart, and Ser Aherne
a Fein Hall, Tullamore, were
Mr, C. Power called attention to the
ir. Callen said
magistrate, District Inspector Fitzger-
ald asked that,.in the interests of jus-
tice, the public should be excluded, and
reagon to. bi
a lent’ Magistrate
Callan acceded to the exclusion request,
while agreeing that the public should
be admitted if the police saw no obj
‘ion.
In a formal dep sition to justify a re:
mand, Fitzgerald
stated that Sergeant Abi nerne was still in
|e accuses ool par’
. Power
read a certificate showing ‘that Edward
Downes, one of the accused, was born
in April, 1901, and was, therefore, tinder
sixteen years of
further question,
there were in all fi
hall on the occasion.
' SPEAKING IRISH A ORIME,
As an‘example of Bngland’s concern
for small nationalities the arrest of
n for speaking Irish will show that
for
e22
the Ins) epector. said
fteen persons in the
perfdious Albion has no concern
Irish Nationality,
Mr. Padraiy © Conaire, the well
known writer “ot Irish, and’ member of
the Executive Committee of the Gaelic
Lea, was arrested on March 31, at
Glenvar, near Rathmullen, County Don-
egal, at the house 's, George
avan and t present im-
°3
s-
Oxford
z
g
yy have got his information
f the inhabitan
Judge F the remaining
Justices and him reelt. had no hesitation
e conclusion wo sat the
ace! ised ‘had, in fact, refused ti wer
questions to the) best of his Inomiete
and ability. The Bene ch were evenly
divided, the conviction rola,
therefore, stand, and he had great pleas-
ure in affirming it,
DUBLIN NEWSPAPERS SEIZED,
A number of Dublin newspapers have
23
8
or to critic
boas of Mi arme
‘h revolvers, went from the Castle to
the house in Liffey Street. They were
reinforced by a number of Metropolitan
‘The party then gathered at the
house. The papers ubllshed
printing
the Gaelic Press are The Spark, Hon-
esty, The Gacl, and The. Gael -abnists,
Nearly all the tyre fs set by rms,
the house ‘aly ‘for ler.
cal work and deopetehing the publica-
tions, As soon as the officers of the
search party tered the place,
they had the doors locked, and the man-
ager, Mr. Stanley, was seen at a win-
dow looking at the crowd which
had bosemnied. ‘in the street. Among
med, sm:
CIT ARMY SUCC.
i" ULLY RESISTS,
bout the same tine w ‘aid,
of the ne
that they could find.
Later in the
seized any
afternoon the police visit-
eadqt
published | the
d The Worker:
Republic. the union
heard of the coming ratd, for a man
had
pround that they had no warrant. They
had,,consequently, to go away to obtain
the necessary authorization. As soon
hey had gone the officers. of the
“Citizen army” issued an ord
members to 10 Liberty Mal end
for tome time afterwards men ¢
their ries might we seen coming asthe
ly to
‘The police also went to the Irish
Workers’ Co-operative Society, at
Eden quay, to search for:
hey were refused admission® by the
shopwoman, . as warrant,
and they left for the purpose of getting
"The entrance te “Liberty Hall”
guarded by ers of the ©
in aoiltpation of a
Wor!
crowd quietly dispersing . about
o'clock,
GREAT MEETING OF PROTEST.
The people are aroused over the Gov-
ernment’s action in trampling rough:
shod over the rights and liberties of
the people, and meetings of protest are
being held in various parts
try. On March 30 an verfow meeting
was held in the Mansion House, Dul
with the . object - of . protesting
against the deportation of Irish Vol-
unteer organize
Alderman who sided,
pre:
aid it was an extraordinary thing that
in the Nineteenth Centyry men should
If, said Mr, Mac-
BEST TIMETO 2:
GAIN
Those Who are Thin and
NEW FLESH
Pale Should Take Father la
John’s “Medicine ‘Now. Pe
ie
agree
Clothing ‘Stor
thel d wa a
the yr mlltary on ah and we 1 meet | eons eae 3 -
"Father Cos- 7
tello, Dublin, and Mr. Peter Macken, goseooese “ > a
Vice-President Dublin Trades Council, | % ve
also addresse
resolution was adop'
n overflow meeting: was held in the
meeting, and the
upper Room.
Very Rev.* Archdeacon ‘MacKenna,
PL .G., Carickmacross, telegraphed:
“Sorry cannot be t monster
protest meeting, health at present not
permitting. ers .of English -Gov-
ernment Irish Parliamentary
Party walking in footsteps of Crom-
‘to Hell or to Connaught.’ Time
determination. — Iris!
with you feelin~ bit-
The following resolution was unani-
mously: adopt
ss putlte. meeting of Dublin .citi-
zens in the Mansion House, Dublin,
asks all Irish people to join in oppos-
the Government's attempt, unani-
mously condemned by national opinion
st ‘year; and now renewed, “to send
trennen into banishment from. Ire-
Jan
S
vafter the meeting, a number of per-
sons who had attended it assembled out-
side
thence towards the
As the crowd passed
Offices in Grafton
ed by way of Exchequer Street
George's Street, marched thence to York
Street, into hen’s. Green, and
again through Grafton Street.
AN. OPEN AIR PROTEST.
‘Another meeting of protest again
the banishment of Irishmen was held
m Mare eh 31 tn Beresford Place, Dulin
T. Kelly presided.
shechy. Skemtngton,
mn
mbled
papers the hes of
by the p
GIN Be “sre AKS
TAME.
ft which were raided
OUT IN PAR-
LIAMBNT.
‘This high-handed and provocative ad-
ministration of the Defence of the
Jack. id that the thing
calling itself a | Rovernmient sont its mill-
and_ poli Irish_newsp:
per ome tovsmash up the type for cop:
been pu!
other small
an
newapapers pullianed in
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‘0 provide ro
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xpected at the affair,
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new Dominican
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ton Avenue.
G. A, A. AT CELTIC PARK.
The Gaclic
America have 8
Chere of St. Vincent
Street and Lexing-
Athletic Association | ot
scheduted a great attrac-
tion for Celtic, Park next Sunday, April
day evening, April 27, at Central Opera
it
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