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A JOURNAL DEVOTED TO THE CAUSE OF IRISH INDEPENDENCE, IRISH LITERATURE AND THE INTERESTS OF THE IRISH RACE,
Vol XIII, No. 23.
Whole No. 664,
NEW YORK, JUNE 3, 1916,
ALL ENGLAND'S HIRED LIARS REQUISITIONED FOR
SPECIAL SERVICE TO DEFAME THE MEN WHO ARE
TRUE TO IRELAND, IN ORDER TO COUNTERACT
THE WAVE OF IRISH WRATH AND INDIGNATION:
For British Gold Discredited Renegades And Corrupt Newspapers Invent Stories 61
“German Money ” Received By American Irishmen To Finance The Revolution And
Stolen While Their Poor Dupes Suffer Death And Imprisonment For Their Credulity
-= British Government At Its Old Game, As Ia 1798, 1848 and 1897, OF Assassinating
The Character Of Its Enemies---Impossible Now To Traduce The Murdered Leaders,
Whom The World Recognizes As Men Of High Character And Ideals, The Friends
They Trusted In America Are Bespattered With Mud---Other Scoundrels Come to|
England’s Rescue With Falsehocds About The Treatment Of The Prisoners, While
“Others Still Misrepresent The Pope---Biskop O’Dwyer Rebukes Chief Butcher Maxwell.
The British Government, its officials and
its ves in England, Ireland and Amer-
ica,” are now engaged in a
It is not
liberally paid for by English money, b
been going on at both sides of the ‘lone
ever since the Ei
ne!
larger sums-of English money have been
concentrated on the renewed effort. It is
ssary for Baten Ines th that
sthe*wortd “show “believe: thi |
a eiecmination of Tish ish-
ndence ‘of Ireland,
‘ecent. rebel ion,
money,” not tl
English, being @
nea
the service. And these sttelings of
red
tades is thetr beliot enat everybody else
is0 disho:
Just now w the frilence that the leaders
of the in: in Ireland were men
of the nobl n of high prin-
ciple, caifsncrfcng idealists who. fung
es with abso-
é3
Eg
cabled to this country s
other line of attack ie adopted It
be shown ‘hat, while these .men we
high-minded and noble, if unwise. and
» ere dup knaves,
tricksters and swindlers in the Unite
who received “Ger Money”
to finance the rebellion and put it in
thetr pocket
vousn Porananorers AT WORK.
So hole. propaganda machinery
whieh ‘Engler’ ca trols, from London to
Tork i set fn motion, and the
neanine “German joney”
tended on Dublin revolutionists is
in the
financi
reasons, so it will only bn iitele int
we. Bagland.- Libeis on England's
e banned.
INFAMOUS LIES.
The ‘Dublin Freeman, after its nine
days’ rest, while the rebels occu-
pied the office, reprints a portia:
ffian Egan's letter, includ-
not now control aq I
te diverted "tron te Iegitimate purpose to
y for his assassination, as fhe funds at
the Land League sere used
nix eis a alent. aie
y
2
es
appens | to be still able to take are
hime self and, no matter what might hap-
et othe master-as-
sassin would p: e penalty watch he
missed in the vane ‘eighties.
LIED FOR ENGLISH - GOLD.
; the Berfast sich
Jan's accuracy, their re
ers how it could be vosetbie ‘for him to ob-
tain the information.
sociates in the little remnant of the United |
Irish League dente rust dhe is
snatheme to ould know
we smallest thing sbont it “t it were true.
se papers all knew that it was an au-
anit lie, told by a professional liar, for
d_ sordid English reasons, but the
lie. “outed. thett purpose and nelped the
propaganda of falsehood which ‘English
gold Tins carried on for the past two years.
So they all quoted the We and inferen-
tially gave U infamous Har the
Irish race bas produced for a genera-
tion a sort of certificate as a truth teller.
THE MISERABLE LIAR MGILLTAN,
in Chi
He oe a about thin,
absolutely, othing and sat men whom
he has never and whose move-
one be is a8 ignorant
This fe
little Cl
ents and ction
he is of the interior of TTupiter
low poised in a contemptible
cago
that he knew that a fund o
been raise:
proofs: Th
on the character of the man who told it
and on his supposed means of ebiaining
tion.
MacNeill, wh
wn this cur in Ireland, "bod *
dental in the Irish Volunteer and
salserabie, Mar replied in this sneaking
MONir, MacNeill’s answers do not answer
fe anestiont asked in the Citizen article
answer other questions which wi
either asked nor suggested therein. His
LIE MADE OUT OF WHOLE CLOTE.
‘Any cowardly cur can make @ lying
sistenent of hat kind if he can get =
t but naming names or
eiptin me to give proofs would be quite
another thing. MeGillian’s statement, like
Egan's, was a lie made out of ‘whore cloth
fer the purpose eof helping England,
was as much par! iti
nde at tf bd Bee
fhe Central British Bureau in the World
Building on Park Row. The whole state-
ment fi g to end is a lie and
th ho wrote it has no
knowledge srhatever on the, subjete ‘on
which he Breton nds to have intimate know!
edge. T
e had, it would be a t. the We
posal a ine British Governm i
| LIES ALL ORIGINATE IN “noxoow'
. The ‘proof that a this propaganda’ of
lies originates ion is supplied wy
the cabled summaries ia of the r testimony @
British: officials given before the Repel
Commission now “ investigating” ‘the recent
insurree land and by other siate-
ments of American correspondents in Lor
don and of Englishmen writing
0)
York papers, , They all strike the one note
and play on the same They can't ac
cuse the m 0 ha n tly shot
death in Dublin of dishonesty, for no
one would, believe th to
charge unnamed persons in the United
States with stealing the “German money”
which was to have financed the revolution.
thing is “as easy as kiss hand,” and
these newapepers and the men who are
paid good English money for their work:
End fhe ies broadcast
The two men who knew all that was
ansible for British ofeiale fo Treland to
having
and Nathan— mit.
tet that tanit Tnowledge of the rebel’
Preparations was very scant,
the wi
rappers were next put on the a ‘in
re than their
Priea, . tepieally
bumptions Arai Triah tical talked
had attended ret meeting
ot the revolutionary ‘Tenders, but in some
inexplicable way missed the one at which
w that was delivered on Easter
Monday was decided on. He ao was most
familiar with the. private of th
Clen-naGacl in Anserica, but, "mmehow,
fot out of touch in April 1915. But he
to the amount of
“American ° gota? ‘which Nathan said. had
been sent to arm the Irish Volunteers, and
to make it a round Deni
Spelliasy, the Treasurer ore the trish Vol.
unteer Fund, bed poblished weekly reports
of the ‘ontributions, but the
eoterpnng New ‘vo = had to
ton" and ask him te explain “the “Con-
spiracy.” hey all Put i in {heir head-
lines ie. fac at Price jentioned””
Judge alan as taving’s some
fon with the Volunteer
whem
Thes be
papers, since they entered the service
of Engi
THE BROORLT N “EAGLES” RUFFIAN
gle baw made itself par:
nm by its attacks
character of all wo oppose Bas,
lish ‘rule in Ireland or dare word
against the English propaganda which it
ries on. «Tt has a cub reporter in Lot
don Jane Suydam he some time ago
picked “ it the Dardanelles
axl howe little wd has been
he exploit. The Eagle sent him to Dublin
te hep the British Goverament by playing
a n the Irish patriots, and he did
his Tevel beats but, in spite of his valuable
2
* aid, the blow was struck without warning
on Easter Monday, That riled him and he
ix now “getting square” with the men who
Fae to help him to tell the British Gov-
ent all about their Plena and to cable
another “scoop” to the Easy
His method was characteristic. “The m
who had beled him were all dead or in
Prison, Fifteen of them bad, been
by sentence of
and three others bad been
a barrack equare by order of an trleb
Uaoane offices was too cowardly to
tat
who r
ge to the trent over 1,700 others were in
English detention camps more
were awaiting ei r pubtin, A real
wrepaper max would hase found in this
situation neve of suff
n
t, Suy-
dam revealed himself as @ hireling and a
cu
Suydam could not. see any of the prison-
ers, 80 he did the next best thing. He
interviewed the jailore. und enbled. to the
Eagle what he sid the jailors told him
was said to them by some “ ‘the prizoners,
who, of eoiirse, were on ost confi-
dential terme of intimacy aah ‘the Eng.
lishmen. substance of this startling
offal, and te Government officials oe
Suydam that t! nena-Gael in
ha ‘ received a i ‘tr money y from the (er
n Gov @ Jrish Volun-
teers, iad “Nolen tie “rons “and lett thelt
oor dupes in Ireland to their fate.
ism "thee
lish ubsidies beg
” by. publishing later a
from Major O'Rourke denying Suydam’s
absurd lies, And since then Suydam
bas repeated his lies
ARNOLD BENNETT'S WONDERFUL
DISCOVERY. °° -*
‘The New York Times, in its magazine
arctan’ best Sunn published an article by
Arne’ e lise sas S05
etm “of—office. " He fathom e
whole _ conspiracy. ~All the “leader:
e actual facts’ had
been shot; the secon on
class leaders we in prison, but this
capable an enterpti tin Engl man was
tile to find out ta oor three day all
that these dend a mprisoned men had
been doing and sinking and otding for
two years. And, what is
able, be was ane to lay bare, “during his
short stay in Dublin, the snmost secrets
of the American Clan-na-Gael and to prove
conch sively that ite leader wot all ihe
money they got fror
the ori truth,
lishman has discove
The Clan sna "Gas is an interesting and
rather himan as Thay
focertained. Tle at ne ate ‘completely ex:
clude respectabilit ‘hey will have no
truck with that aunty. Its funds are
pai artly mbers’ pulser
mi
‘d and fourth
Her
as ihe ‘wonderful Eng.
sn
something for their money, pend. at ate
has set shout
‘0 doubt it does as
an because its existence de-
pends on the continuance of the Irish prob-
lem. It was and is terrificatly oppor
to the Home Rule Act for the reason
hat Home. Role would putan end to
the Irish oe ”
L
think’ that they read
ae this Kind ct ceatt twonty, forty or more
rs ago, and that it is the same oid
ubbish that Englishmen have been wri
Ir ents for a oni
found investigation
ene oe Subtiee cut offials cue
genius for go now being dem-
onstrated by an ih Royal Coie:
TWO FIRED LIARS.
‘here are plenty of other contributions
to the English propaganda about Ire
but these are the only 01
tioning. « Another effort. of the | "aah
P yy unimpeach: timony
the Irish Pritonern are we treated,
full. of
Py le to their Eng.
Hat jatlors. The two witnesses they quote
are “Long John
” O'Connor and a Braydon,
the late editor of the Free in to
whom none of the prisoners even
speak. O'Connor is & Tenesoe. Pesian
he tries to graft t on his
wn, Prosecutor nd and sel
coon for money ere time the hanes
comes to him. This fellow says he visited
some Kildare prisoners—he misrepresents
(Wontinued on‘ Page 5.)
PROT YORON. Yc under the ect of Congreee of March 8,
second-class mattar, Oct. 1.1908, at the Port
“= LAST STAND OF THE
Office at
aa
PRICE FIVE CENTS.
DUBLIN INSURGENTS
The Post Office Having Been Demolished
By Artillery Fire, They Cut Their Way
Out And Are Raked By Machine Guns—Connolly’s Last Order, Found On The
Body of O'Rahilly, Recites The Fine Achievements Of His Men—Last
Seen Of Thomas J. Clarke—Daly Captures The Linen Hall
Barracks And De Valera Holds Up The Sherwood Foresters,
2,000 Strong, For Four Hours, With A Handial of Mea
And Inflicts A Loss Of
187 Casualties—Finest
Fighting Ever Seca In Ireland.
The New York Sun and Times printed
a few days ago a document which,
was claimed, was the last order issued
by James Connolly, commander of the
| Dublin insurgents. It was dated Ap
he | 2 said to have been fou!
| on the dead ody of The O’Rahilly.
O'Rabilly was the commander of one o
. | the detachments of the garrison which
eld the Post Office for six days. When
j the building was demolished by artil-
jlery fire it was surrounded by English
of the insurgents
The O'Rahilly
was in command of one body of insur-
gents and he was killed leading a charge
n Moore Lane, at the back of the Post
and The English
raked their ranks ‘sith machine gun:
from Henry Street and a larger num-
em were Killed and wounded
there, ‘thon during the whole of the pre-
vious week of fighting.
LAST SEEN OF TOM CLARKE.
Thomas J. Clarke, at the head of an-
other detachment, cut d
reached the
5
3
&
2
e
3
I} directing the-fghting, « Tuer
pl in overwhelming
force of British troops and had to sur-
render when their last cartridge
gone. Connolly. having”
ed and Pearse, b
8. General Maxwell demanded un-
conditional surrender, which Clarke re-
fused, and gents determined
to make an effort to fight their way ont
and effect-a junction with some of t
other [nsurgent forces which still held
art of the
r-
the surrender of all the insurgent
forces. .
Then the two wounded men were
butchered, by order of a British court
@ shot. thers
Portobello Barracks, without ven ‘ine
form of a trial, by order of an
who has not yet been punished.
_ CONNOLLY" S LAST ORDER.
Fotlowing Js the document fea to
have nd on The O'R:
of the Itoh Republic
publi d,
Headquarters, ‘April 28, 1916.
"To Soldiers
“This is the fifth day of the establish-
ment of the Irish Republic, and the flag
of our country still floats from the most
important buildings in Dubie cont is
gallantly Protected by t
Irish soldiers in arms throughout ‘ne
Not a day passes without see-
ing fresh postings of Irish soldiers onser
jo battle for the old
g
3
3
gathering to offer up their lives if nec-
essary in the same holy cause. We are
here hemmed in becausé the enemy feels
that in this buflding is to be found the
heart and inspiration of our great move-
ni
remind you what “you have
ag oe the first time in 700 yea
of a free Ireland floats trium-
phentiy in Duo in City.
“The British Army, whose exploits we
attacl y positions held by
our forces. The slaughter they suffered
in the first few days: b: ally
nerved them, and they dare not attempt
again an infantry attack on our p
ns.
“Our Commandants around us are
holding their own.
“Commandant” Daty’s splendid t exottt
in capturing Linen Hall Barri
all know. You must know also ‘that the
whole ‘population, both clergy and laity,
of this district are united in his praises.
Commandant MacDonagh. {s established
‘ks swe |.men k!
in an impregnable position reaching
from the walls of Dublin Castle to Red-
mond's Hill, and from Bishop Street to
Commandant
side of the square, a portion of the
side, and dominates the whole Green and
all {ts entrances and exits.
mandant De Valera
@ positfon from
land Row
land's Mills, Dublin South-Eas!
way wwe rks, and dominating. “Merrion
Squa
stretches in
g
“Commandant Kent holds the South
Dublin Union and Guinness's Bulldings
to-Marrowbone Lane, and controls
James's Street and district.
ccasions the enemy effected
a toagment and were driven out with
er
“The men of North County Dublin are
in the field, have occupied all the Police
arracke in the istrict, destroyed all
the telegraph system be Creat Nor
ern Rallway and a
operating against the traine of the Mid
‘Western.
ndali has sent 290 joen to march
upon Dublin nd in“fhe-other parts of
the North our forces are active and
growing,
“In Galway Captain
yesterday and am unable to move about
ave got. m1) moved into the
firing line, and, with the assistance of
your officers, will be just ss useful to
you as ever.
“Courage, boys, we are winning, and
in the hour of our xetory let us not for-
eet the splendid w ave every-
re stood aa us van hee
Never. had a grander
cause, never yes a cause more grandly
served.
“(Signed) Janes Cornett,
andant-Gene!
Dublin Division.”
BROKE FAITH WITH MacBRIDE.
While the document looks to be genu-
oof of its authenticity.
gents would be spared. The B
r was brought in an
gave his word that the lives of all would
be spared. Then a
MacBride to be shot, and he
This shows the value
word, of an English “officer and gentle-
per BATTLE OF MOUNT STREET.
Besides the exploit of Commandant
herwoods, ace
‘and. 157 wi
187 in all put out ot action. vA young
(Continued on Page 6.)