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‘The Saelic Cmenean.
FASTER WEEK
_ REBELLION.
‘ dontinues prom | from Page 1.)
- "pRAVERY, OF THE FOLUNTEERS,
* “One night Father Toke of the Capu:
sniping any Volunteer who passed. Any-
pas sd over, passed at his
Tis! Father John had to pass
over, doing h
to him, and
want to go over there, to the other ‘sae,
feo.
‘And Father Jon saids ‘Don't stir;
“te is too iene ero
*'Oh, Father,’ he sald, 4 must go.
‘So, finally, the two rushed over to:
body. »That is -worth -reme!
Ing.
“Here is another thing:.. One morn-
part
» of. the reet—were
lightly held... The soldiers, cing this,
tried to rush the position. A few Vol-
the barricade to get the rites
fir of deurae, and
“LIES ‘iscee THE roi TEERS.
"The English Blacken tne
* character of the Volunteers, 1 kno
case. where the police went into a house
‘fo Dublin and searched ft, and while (
house was being searched, the detective
tald thie. story. to the. women: of the
house—it is @ lie” from Beart to finish:
~ They said there was a: Volunteer about
nineteen yeare old who. shot down a
old man. in. the atree An
Priest eame-. along—bet sixty-five
and seventy, ‘the. detective said—an
the Volunteer ratsed his. rifle and shot
the priest,
“The woman
-‘Why didn’t somebody
‘Oh,’ said the detective,.
teers in. the - Post
ly: that-went ne:
$38
a
‘the house asked:
wring his neck?”
‘the Volut-
nd then another man “chimed in
another of the authorities—and he said:
* Doherty, Tt is some other name.’
“But
‘Father Mecorter 80 the story is a i
from start to
i “Tn. Denewel, "the onl; sot
during th e rising was that the Volun-
ters ‘rore shooting down priests, and
that Dr. De t, and
e
8
€
way about,
“Then they gave out that there’ were
Galway German transports sunk in
Galway Bay. sunk a rowboat,
they ‘would put it in the newspapers.
NeweRocs BRITISH » ATROCITIES.
“Well, id you hear‘ the story
of the death of Patrick Deddrick? He
\lived in Swift 5, Eustace Street,
Dublin. --He > kis rifle to the
milltary authorities, “His mother and
of the family were
him. Now, 1 have that
on fairly good authority.
“A number of People ee Portbeti
risoners—
| SHOT. WOMEN:
Ofiee would shoot |
him.’
other name. It isn "t ew
was no priest shot except | t°
ie
he was surprised to find that there|
. was not.any shooting; ft was the other | reer eof tl
was during the h
im
© | friends—and these ‘were “the men he Ted
an officer walked up and down the plat-
form striking them whenever he had &
notion of doing it—-striking them on
the face and on the head.
“Now, Ishave this from_one of the
een used for bully beef.
“Here anotier « one oe day and date:
Fifty soldiers of Carson's Voluntee!
ople
people had “only
straw mattresses—mattresses made of
straw. -They took these off the bed and
Kicked the straw into the road. . Th
broke the roof of the kitchen with their
bayonets, dug u
toes were sown and destroyed the 5:
That happened on the 220 of Maj tee
in Rockcorry, County’ Monaghan, long
after the rising was over. I suppose he
thought there weve some arms buried
¢.
“Another story is told.of a girl who
was taking a -message.for the Volun-
jon: her
and could not find
said that she ate ity. Then, the story
fused to tell and was shot.
tt story conies from now,
but that is a story I havg heard. (This
itory is, told ‘by other pSople, who say
e girl was only eleven. years of age.)
ane is said Joze, the chemist, was shot
by “the Volunteers. \ Eyewitnesses say
that it was the soldiers who shot him,
D A BOY ASLEEP IN BED.
house near ; Serpentine
Di jeggar
Pett tell ‘you this story as
res)
2
&
Avenue. i
Barracks.
and «
took “off the- shoes, ‘of ne irl of the
house, and even sears her shoes.
hey Nobody in
he house belonged 0 the Volunteers—
took no part in the fighting. There
m -their - ro
mand searched ns
ff to
2
sent home,
stow i the following. day, the son
me; and he. was told that
they - would. shell the
waited for a couple of hours util they
saw. the -
3
and ‘kept all night, lay down to hav
sleep; About s ‘o'clock in the evening,
without any warning whatever, shelis
want.to shell that house ie private
avretting house? « Then,- shelled
y searched the Tice again! That
British brains for ys
RBARSE pm xor BRING HIS.
Tt was stated tes ebody in, the
Independent that Pearse led, hie little
pupils into Dublin, not knowing what
would happen to them, they not
knowing they were going in to fight. As
a matter of fact, all the pupils had gone
ome on their holidays, the wee!
fore, for Easter Week —tor Holy Week
and ey 0!
staying
into Dublin.
_ HOW. “FATHER avaustise Gor
he sent
hands stretched out like that. (illustrat:
ing), and the message in his hand;
and this man went
the omer asked him
asked the officer if he woul
ot tea out of tins that! i)
a1
DESECRATED THE. BLESSED BAC-
-| messenger—the first
| asked them to ces firing, an
6 pots: he
sacr:
AS WELL AS MEN.
the message. It is] g!
ras From otto. J. Muller, Der Mrs,
M.
COLLECTED BY MRS, M. H.
ia COLL:
er
“pather augue sted to get ‘a
eS a witness whom he wishes to have call-
ed,
‘I sent yous a@ message, and te answer
r he sent.
jon’t understand me.
“Again: In Tom MeDonough’s house| YoU with regard to having a truce for
everything was‘ broken: the ‘soldiers| t@nlght.’» So, the officer, seeii
broke everything in the house. They | kind of man he had to deal with, spol
stole money and jewelry out of Plun-| sized for the rude answei
kett's hile he was talxing to the officer and
5 arranging tl of the truce the
these men were go
it to the head of Fathi
» Rockcorry, County Monaghan, and| said, Now i they fire again, I will
searched his house. »In the"house was| shoot this
‘an oratory. , too, they searched.| “Father ‘gusting seeing what was
he Bleesed Sacrament ept in the| up, went over Volunteers and
arranged the truct hey were to have
hat night and that night, in
North King Street and Kirk (2) Street,
During the truce the
ry officers and
chatted: ‘on quite friendly terme with
hile the truce w
HIS CON cuesroNs.
“T havo arrived at theve conclustons
as to the 1 result of the rebellio:
“I It was the Language Movement
that saved Ireland. That is as true as you
are sitting there, but 't know
ether the English Government knows
he tt . well that the Ameri-
know it," amongst them-
selves ae "all events. It was e Lap-
guage Movement that kept the head
steady in Ireland.
"Il. They are very poor. These,men
very poor, ’Mac-
e's fam-
ily 18 poorcand they were realty brit
‘ould hav je car:
ters open for them
how it ie~that anybody who
Ireland: is poor, no matter what their
Now, some of them are
gifted literary men, and if their. works
vould sbe published in America, am
would be a great help to them.
mber of castalties 1s various-
ly es ciate, but a good many people
of Dublin say it was even milltary to.
one Volunteer,
OUMANT NA mBAN, ING,
eir last* meeting Cumann
mia “Incorporsted, Teported the con-
tributions received to date and. turned
over pellissy, National Treas-
rer of the Fund, a6 follows: -- Bat
COLLECTED BY CUMANN NA mBAN,
INCORPORATED.
Previousiy acknowledged. .
From sale of martyred heroes’
pictures, buttons, and tri: ,
Soe badges at various mass
7, $1423.92)
om proceeds of Memortal
cass ans held at Tux-
J. O'Donovan Ross 5.00
From.-Chas, O'N. aul wn’ 8-50
Krem- Mrs. - Marie H. Jones
collection Car
Frem Miss Julia O'Sullivan
Collection Card
23.35
Total. ace cree B1484.
JONES
perros CARD.
$10—Henry B. Cor
$5 each—John Eran, “Washington,
9
t,
COLLECTED BY MIS8 JULIA O’8UL-
a
LIVAN, COLLECTION CARD «6.
—Julia O'Sullivan,
Mrs.
Ick.
each—Mrs,
Joseph. Ellis,” John. Lyons, - Kathleen
Clark, James Cunning!
jehmis,
cents
|crarx, Margaret Clark, Mre, Brodescar,
Me t, Mrs, Tighe, Mary Smith,
ary Siahoa, Mrs. Shannon, Joseph
Watentord,
LONDON, June 15.—The lawyer for
found dissatisfied with, the findings
| and u urgently press:
ine for a public
e courtmartial found Captain Bow:
Royal Irish Rifes,
Skeffing:
of mur-
der, but held that he was insane at the
the acts were committed
Mrs. Skeffington’s lawyer
portant. facts were hot revealed at the
courtmartial, charges
against Captain ‘Colthurst “and specifies
——~+-__
Don't forget as long as you live that
it was an American Government offici
who betrayed to England the date on
which a Germa! arms and am-
munition was to be landed in Ireland.
for Ireland, and | ©
very|or when I had
a} was all
264.20) ¢
40.50 t
B. McFeely, A. Lankering, Hoboken. or
| Thess
E004 faith of the charges
Cunningham, | t
each—Emily Zehmis, Rose| Senat
‘lar’
++ > ob
MRS, SKEFFINGTON APPEALS | ©
- WHY SHEMUS O'SHEEL WAS DISMISSED.
The Knownothing Administration in Washington ls Weeding
Out Hyphenated Americans Who Don't ‘Sympathize With
and Who '
Activities of Their Superiors—A Trumpe
Neglect: of Duty—Knownothingism Rapa in the Govern-
England in the War
ment Departments.
ew York, June 19, 1916,
To the Editor of Tar Garuic Asrica
Since my return to New York, I have
been asked by so many of my Irish-
American friends as to the circum:
se anres of my dismissal from the
of the United States Senate aa
| Washington, that I must request you to
grant me.a Hetle space in your paper
for a statem
End
leave of
| absence till the 3let of May, after which
I was no longer to be an
the Senate. At first, no
given for this action; and my repeated
efforts to hi an instance of neglect
of duty mentioned, when [ was finally
accused of that, met with no response.
Hventually the Secretary did state
general way that I had b
of irritation”
employee of
that
were always either Irish-Americans or
rman-Americans, .
In occasionally
when: there was little work to be done
constant indexing
typewriter,.
to his Sena-
ey
ag
oa
2
g law or running Masonic
airs, who are capable of carrying on
reporter of the New
york World told me about a week be-
was to be d!
has instructed fts Washington office to
question me on absurd charges of im-
proper activities (as they
called them) tn the Internationa situa-
ton. - The New orld’s chief
character-assassin, Louis “pba, has
inygstigeted me: a ne same uis Sei-
goes into confer
¢ Anglo:
sone
xamined
e Eng-
lish Secret Service being per install
in a house fist across the street from
the Department of Justice in "Wasbing.
ton. .
facts absolutely disprove the
fe against
~ There is further proof in the fact
that Senator Tillman, whore appointee
the ate 1s, wrote
Congressman who voluntary ine
terceded for me, that
at the ofa certain Senater—
obviously; not ‘tor néglect of duty in the
ere being
closely 1 u was watched in all my goings
igs in the Capitol, seeing how
alee and “the
apparent, 1 assert confidently that I
was dismissed because of my sy ympathy
with Ireland and Germany.
Democratic Party has False the
vanner of wnothingism, ine
aerihed on tt "No Germans Wanted, Xo
Irish Need Apply, No Scandinavians
Tolerated!” For there ts not only m:
case: there the case of. Ernest
neken, German - American
schon iemicacd from the Library of
s for daring to "join the vast
majority Americans iu crittetsing
President Wilson. And worst of all,
Secretary of War, New ton D. Baker,
has issued an order over his signature,
8 shown in the Congressional Record
of May 19, for the dismissal of all but| from
NATIVEBORN certain
brane! Wa partment - work,
Under. this erder, "st least half a dozen
Danes, Norwegians
them American citizens, have bi sud-
denly deprived of a iivelihood, ‘tor. no
citizens
tle-box in a railway station at
Dubin for two nights anda day, and
and, after some difficulty, they found
this officer; and he sud to the officer:
And don't let it slip your memory next
November, .
them, Secretaries Baker and
that
een,
Wilson have decided an honest
a
e and taki an oat
of allegiance to the Constitution, is not,
nevertheless, a citizen, while a native:
born American who turns his back on
r-)his flag and his country and swear
allegiance to King George, is still a
is is what the marriage of
in the ath of May I was informed
reason was|™
my, visitors
iy. hi
taking an hour off|
¢/ ing you for your courtesy, I am,
Si
ne a of | eff
. ent
to the assistance of the British in one
Don't Like the Pro-British
Up Charge of |
OLD BUSHMILLS
IRISH WHISKEY
10 YEARS OLD
Made: in Pot Stills Exclu-
sively From Irish Grown
Barley Malt.
American citizen who has shown his de-|
To ory ‘sm and Knownothingism has pro-
duced,
And now the papers tell us that the
Democratic Party is planning to placate
the n-American ah
after lending all the force
of this country’s influence to Englai
ter the Depart-
in Constitu
my Irish-American and German-Ameri-
can friends in New York—a fact, Mr.
Editor, of which you are aware, and
which I need no longer conceal. Thank-
cerely yours,
Suemvs O'SHEEL.
IRELAND AND EGYPT.
282
The executions in Dublin by sentence
of British field courtsmartial bring to
as Mr.
the British -in. that country.
currence ‘took place the- sect
after the landing of British bluelackets
and. marines from the Mediterranean;
squadron—the morning following the
mbardment of Alex:
head courtmartial had been | ©o
A
installed at the head
Hee
of the building outside which the court-
martial was held were witnesse: os of the
id intended purpose for which
they had been prepari
in question,
about 10
o'clock, a commotion took place in one) Hi
t the side streets, and presently there
merged into the square a smal
cessio jon of Levantine rifferaff headed by
Greek ging along an tien
fellah a the. poorest class, arte had| fel
been caught looting, as it was alleged
im the evidence given before the court:
martial.
of the square, w
ting en permanence and the “Ioot” was
produced.
te “coneisted merely of a small hand-
ful of rags, which the culprit was seen
struck him an
view, not more,
elapsed.
An interesting feature of this. inci-
than ten minutes
ing - the
judas Lecariot of | judge
d
Pro-| 8
e| Francis Dickinson,
in-| fevre,
ALL HALLOWS INSTITUTE.
The commencement exercises of All
Hallows Institute were held at Aeolian
on Jt
Thomas B.
chairman of the
‘O'Donnell Abu” by the choral class of
over seventy voices.
Bishop Hayes having presented the
@ still greater
success to which it sould attain
‘hool was a
@ archdiocese, but thi
untry.
Addressing the graduates the Bishop
rough the whole
ed th:
an
a.
Diplomas in the Class! Course
were awarded to Howard Francis Dan-
thy, John Francis Dezell, Jr. be
Edmund
Gaffney, Eustace
James Edward J
Thomas ree
Emil Mathiesen, Walter Joseph Me-
Bride, William Vincent ¥
rth /
Jefferson
and Frederick entry Vil-
Jaume.
In the Commercial Course diplomas
were awarded to Lawrence John Calla-
nan, mas Vincent Carroll,
Joseph Collins, John Tho:
Thomas F. Fai
partment), James Joseph Collins. (Com-
mercial Department) Alumni Medal for
day of the bombardment of andi physics, Edward R. Gaffney. Prize
When the ac ade by say, John Cunningham (Third Year
blowin; ip the principal Egyptian | Academi neral excellence, Ed-
Magazine and the flight of the garrison) ward R, Gaffney (Fourth Year Classical
late in the afternoon, the Admiral, on} Course); Marcus A. O'Sullivan (Third
his @; Lancaster. passed| Year Classical Course); James Bergen,
through the British squadron with; (Second Year Classical Course) James
yards manned, the crew sneering, and a. Hins (Second Year Commerctal
the band playing “Rule. ursé); William A. Kane and Jose)
It he
of the officers of
British flagship,
fi
could have heard the comments.
ff the Alerandra,
s + ney rushed on deck
heir opium wars in China. that
sical Course ds
mar Department Graduating Class);
Eaverd “Reeves (Grammar Department,
Junior Class
ronze Medals, Institute pen Ath
letic Learue, senior team:
Captali agai
“blood is thicker than water."—Eoruzy| PR;
in the New York Evening Mail.
Bealin and the All Hallows Alumna:
t