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The-Saelic Amenican:
July 15, 1916,
ENGLAND'S INCOMPETENT FOREIGN SECRETARY.
George Bernard Shaw Exposes the Hypocrisy and False Pre-
tences of the British Policy in the European War,
Side—Expo
the “Small Nationalities” Humbug—Ceneral
He Takes England’s
Myth and
Though
ses the Belgian Neutrality
Maxwell Shot Away in Dublin England’s Chance of Getting
American Hel
Competent Successor Would
Short on Statesmen as on
George Bernard Shaw had an article
on Sir Edward Grey in last Sunday's
New York Times which is not fatter:
ing to England's Foreign Secretary.
from the British stand-
and only condemns Grey becausi
he does England's business badly. His
ritictsms are therefore all the more
significant.
Shaw has no atience with cant and
hypocrisy, and blurts out ma
truths which are » seit covered up by
som in papers in their e
sive zeal for British interests.
gium to preserve which England would
have the world believe she went to war.
THE BELGIAN NEUTRALI Hi.
TY MYT!
Shaw sneers at this shallow pretence.
He
We. ‘must look this Belgian question
The te dependence
of the ques:
Ireland,
was set
State between the great
Unless
and always has been since she w:
up as a buffer
Powers of the west of
and until Belgium can be placed
‘ng| win a sw
Belgium may protest.
our position and also the
uccess
violate the neutrality ot heaven itself
soldier half
a chance of setting his foot in a Kent
the land!
which might put us to the
‘ELL SHOT IT fray.
All the pro-British papers in Amer-
profess
jority of the Irish
hmen exer-
theo
ago pital nad brigat
hopes of America comin; her
side. These h have been no te away
neral Maxwell in Ireland for the
spite of the powerful
THE “BM ALE NATIONALITIES
tae the nyo ct cal ant about
yr the “small cattonatiee”
* aionatae fine old Whig
and aliticst
on
world, to say nothing of our highly
critical enemtes, when they see that.
national independen an im-
practicable superstitution, ean that
nce in Morocco, Italy jn Daimatla,
‘eedom and national indepen-
GREY UNFIT FoR HIS JOB.
Referring, without naming them, to
the Denshawal
pronounces Grey unfit for hia job and
im to select for himself an-
where be may do less harm to hi
is
Zo a8 1908, in referring to
a very horrible episode im the history
it) men
r
rtsmouth, no matter how vigorously
eral”
fee's umbrella at Koomassie in Ashan-
;|England’s god
er’s shoes, If,
gave «
Chief aid | not. confirm the s
urders in Egypt, Shaw} Fi
Asquith into the mystel
the conclusion of his] in
Sir Edward Grey Unfit for His Job, but a
Be Hard to Find—England as
Generals.
of our occupation of Egypt, I expressed 7
sl
Edward Grey
{tations of his capacity for the highly
specialized work
for Foreign Affairs. Nothing that has
happened since has shaken that opin-
fon of mine for a moment.
w
his solf-transte fer to
vould be the greatest service
it ts in hie
much perplexed country.”
MAY HE LONG BE SPARED.
American papers are in the habit of
referring to Sir Edward
great master in diplomacy, not be
ttm. |f
of a Secretary of State}
tain ) Bowen-Colthurst—whether
committed to a lunatic
asylum, aut retains his military rank,
or whether he is in military custody, or
has regained Ms frees
And there is not a “word about the
promised tnquley into the murder of a
04 6 South Dub-
was cap-
on
Easter Monday. Shortly after the close
insurrection the Irish Times
published a short item of news stating
#8
2
for attending to wounded Irish Volun-
ects,
M'GUIRE CONDEMNS IT,
Former Mayor of Syracuse Points
Out the Absurdities of the
Lloyd George Scheme of Par-
titioning Ireland—All Real
Nationalists Will Refuse to
Accept the Compromise.
The fottowing statement was made by
their writers, who are grossly ignorant] James K. wire, Chairman of the
ot foreign affairs, really know anything :
¢ the merits of his work. but simply | Executive connie Friends of Irish
Besane they are pro-British toadies.| Freedom, the compromise Irish
ng the most ignorant, though the|Home Rule het.
moat pretentions, the editortal| The Home Rule plan for Iretand
writers of the New York Times. And! (twenty-six counties) having recely
pungent crlttetsm
e best interests of humanity Yt
fe really fortunate that. Fagland ‘has
just now at the head of het Foreign
Omice a blunderer who gives way to ill
temper and who calls bad names to the
he will h
cil table where the termi
have to be arranged. If
weeping victory, which 1s out of
the question, it would not matter mu
but acting for a defeated England, or | 8%
try! st le
side the British Empire, wn hop and
pray that Str Edward Grey may long
be spai area Bs fe director ot England’s
foreiga
piatak SHORT ON STATESMEN.
r that matter, there is no man who
: could he put in his place who would do
uch better, England is as short on
batesmen as she is on Generals. They
called wey “England's only Gen-
ter he had captured King Cof-
tee, and of late years Kitchener was
nt
George is her Royal Jack of All Tra
is her gre:
Exchequer, her Boss Supplier of Mu
tions, her Tinker-General for Ireland | ¢]
into Kitchen
=
>
rey ani
land's greatest Foreign Sec-
eorge
his head tolerably clear
bling. Asquith
al ut then bi
ed at the top to keep the ‘arrlog Coall-
tion from falling to pieces,
se
a
MILITARISM IN IRELAND.
Executions, Oa and
Deportations
The Murder of Hiss Kelkoo, the
Nurse, Still Uninvestigated.
A communique issued om the Trish
Command on June 3 figure
garding the recent Tevellion to tothe
not be converted by Shaw's} |,
@| alleged dofender of small
Now Lloyd ed
atest Chancellor of the| ni
up| perpetuating bedy.
as
born in the blood of the young journal-
ists, poets, labor leaders and professors,
who gave their Ives as a supreme sac-
rift for use of ff ‘Th
tragedies of the revolution, in a single
Kk, acco: a Irelan
all
parties have
5 British Cabinet, realiing that ‘the ‘Irish
executions had practically destroyed
merican sympathy for England, as the
nations, dis-
covered tMere waa an aroused Am
reckon with, as wel
ey party at the door of her empire.
The compromise Bill will wo douptedy
bring considerable local bene
twenty-six counties citected,
menoure te purely local and it tered
Americans as a “charter of liberty”
woul te scorned.
Ninety per cent. of all those in Amer-
ica, who are Nationalists, will take no
stock in the comprom!
viding genuine autonomy for the I
ation, ‘The Belfast conference consist
of government offici: the dele-
secret political organization which mi
CRUMBLING OF
BY SHANE
shoot them down at breaking 4
Who staked their all in bold attempt
And prate of
While to your soul ‘tis music sweet
In rapine and in butchery proud Albion stands alone
Her myriad victims’ slaughtered ghosts
ie Britain's tndian rebels han,
ir blow them from the cai
Or flog their hapless women Just to
thelr tortured
rif the deadly opium drug the}
y care that tis
If seventy thou:
Are caged, like cattle in corral, in
Or if they slay Lord Edward, Emmet,
babes in fiendish sport
When she intones with eyes upllt—-"Humanity's dear sake!”
Behold your fate, 0, Washington! in P
uu been captured in the toils of British tyranny!
in Enel land’s blood-red eyes you
When you rose, like Pearse, to free
Ab! Albion, your cup of crime is brim.
The wrath ‘of God has bared the swor
U read, O, England! on your t tomb oe
in modes of torture agonizing, be:
Colossal Monster—!
ilized humenity an infamou
For heinous crimes pi!
Struck by the God of Justice in her
ho, O, Alblon! sheds a tear upon your fetid grave,
as de by side with Babylon and many a nation-knav
You rot, accursed of God and man—your nal
The groaning earth enjoys relief—returns the Dov‘
8 glorious star is silvering vena a
And blessed Freedom’
sons’ jongst
Oh! How her
‘To see fair Eire take the place Hea’
at
Crowned with the Crown on ‘Nationhood *mid the Nations "of the ‘Barth.
championing the cause of peoples small and weak,
g by thou:
‘non mouth into the setting sun;
y force on
upon their Saxon spear
gainst the nearest wall
Cobra—Blot on Nature’s Face—
led mountain-high 'gainst every sacred right
is!
THE KINGDOM.
BREATNACH.
awn, our Irish warrior band
to free their native land;
your victim's dying shriek.
her tottering throne;
geance.
them scream for pain
in copious, crimson rain;
China’s shores
of endless ills the source
hear
backs
—babes
ome vast “famine
Tone, and brothers Sheares;
earse’s butcher
High ‘Treason’s scarlet cloak
Your land from the same accursed yoke.
to o
d tor your eter overthow.
ea nations’ tombs am
yond the powers
‘ace!
hour of braggar'
me " seen and hiss?
of P
are swept with cst
ven de: ined trot
chinery manipulates
while the National Directory is a self
In spite of the
hand- picked § qelesates, 40 per cent. of
the convention voted against the plan.
The leaders abandoned the plan of a
National Convention to be held in Dub-
lin, fearing a revolt, and snapped the
endorsement through the directory
fot
which body 1s appointed by the A.O.H.
machine | in greatest
es of the Bila att out Armagh | p,
from participation stands the
Gaureh of St Patrick presided over by
- | St. Patrick down through fifteen hun-
inal Logue, Primate
of all ‘retand,” whe vi new town to
the wolves in Ulste Cardinal
says “it would be ‘ntnttety better to
remain as we are for fifty years to come
under English rule than to accept this
plan.”
Americans must | understand | met Ire-
ov
dred
bound to England oy charters of Iiberty
in all home a!
NO CHANCE FOR IRISH COMMERCE.
ule Act,
"| murder at Guin
qt
1 fear, will fail
e 80
PANICKY ENGLISH SOLDIERS
| Terrified Sergeant Shot an Army
Officer and’ a Loyalist’ Who
Held “High Position in Guin-
ness’s. Brewery — Murderer
Acquitted by Courtmartial.
The account of how an English army
officer was killed during the week of
the Rising by his own men will illus-
trate the state of panic into which the
military was thrown by ihe superb
“}fighting-of the Irish Volunteers.. It
will also throw a light on the killing
of several civilians whose deaths have
been credited to the Irish Volunteers
Edward's
Fusiliers, for the murder
of the military officer and the brewery
employee:
tory of an officer's “execu
by the orders of a non-comm|
oflcer during the recent Dublin
Hots waa told at a courtmartial at Rich.
mond’ Barracks, when Com-
Hon
Dublin Fusiliers, ras charged with the
8's Brewery,
of pieutenant
naverd’s ‘8
Horse, and John Rice, an “employee at
the brewe
Ty.
Major Kimber, who Proseeuted, ata
number of persons inte mn bli
and; the number convicted under the] °f successful operation, per./in part of the brewery, Colonel Will-
Defence of the Realm regulations, and| °eRt of the corporations are outside of jams, who was in char area,
the number released from Richmond| ts boundarles, the ship yards, woollen ordered Captain McNamara to put
||Barracks -and from England, as fol-| and linen wlll, I uspect. that. Sit on the malt! Captain Me
lows: Edward Carson believes that Ireland Sauere accordingly went there with
Men. Women. Total. | °! conduct a progressive govel ‘ompany Quartermaster ‘ Sergeant
Iateraet... 1618 ie1g| meat from the taxes of the poorer 00d and nine men. -
Contict $60 1 tions of Ireland, hopes to see the n fa pltch dark night, and Col
Convicted. 4,100 1 4171} coveTnment become a charge on the onal “Wiltiawe gave orders that they
z ad TT) Brith y and then point were not to return enipers’ shots, and
Totals... 2,383 7 ~—-2,960| “Be t sad result as evidence | not to fire at all unteas attempts were
of his claim that the people are unfit: made to enter
t 1s understood that courtmartial/ ted for self government. The Executive] At eleven cee bat right Captain
trials in Dublin bave concluded. The In to be vested in Eng- Rothe was ordered | to wake Lieu-
following analysis of the sentences al
assed, being exe
tervitude and imprisonmen:
«17!
were 2 acquitted, and
tried
Som
e civilians
the Tullamore prisoners,
Goldiers tried were Captain, “powen-
declare De; r. Sergeant
jood, Fifth Dublins, acquitted, and
Private Wyatt, neers, sen-
The publi
the North King Street district and
he Portavello murders t yet
mn hel any public state-
wee nor has
ment been made as to what has become
ecutions, penal po
England makes certain that freland
will never be made
petitor by expressly ahiuiting Tre.
land from developing her industries by
a teriff (as Canada and Australia have)
@ State must have if entitled to be
atyled “free.”
DEATH OF JAMES DONNELLY |
At a meeting of fhe Wolte ene
cue New Brunswick, dy on
a resolution door tte ‘teach
He was a. de.
ompromising Irish
N
tionalist, and during his life he never
| wavered in his efforts to advance the
cause of Iris
A committee, conslsting of Mr. om
Garrigan and‘ James Bates,
pointed to prepare resolutions of osm
pathy for presentation to his family.
mober, | wh!
cas—w) wo to
the guard in the matthouse—to relieve
Captain McNamara, who,
ence of ‘geant ood,
Lieutenant Lucas
by Colonel Williams, adding: “It is
inadvisable to open any of the
but ff it is necessary to fire, it would be
better to fire through dows:
oa feated to
he
rather than open them and ‘utraet the | a}
attention of the rebels.”
‘When Captdin McNamara had gone,
g the guard got into a
piness,” and the conse
hen Lieutenant Lu-
The military evidence disclosed a
curious state facts. Lucas
inn Feiner. He had been
sent out during the Rebellion in plain
clothes on Secret Service work in the
\s- | offictals.
tb his people are extremely wei
- iindneas and consideration. |
the instructions given | chetle.
windows, wi
came | by
mediately followed by the. sol
e
Htrects of Dublin, Sergeant Flood had
him im clvilisn clothes, in the
tree eets, and he had also seen him
previows day in the Brewery dressed
asa civilian, He gave this a8 a reason
for sus} tin: e was not officer
when he found him dressed In an oft
cer’s uniform. When they made him
the two “office ers, Lucas and Worswick,
were shot and 0 were the two Brewery
These two gen’ tlomen, Messrs,
up the Holy Sacrifice and gave Benes
tion of the Most Blessed Sacram
has Christian youth be¢
religious teachers to impart an educa.
tion on which depends not merely tho
progress of ‘civilization and enlighten.
of ‘religious ite to
a the words of the pealmist;
est for ever and ever.
I dwell tor I have chosen 1k"
the most prized of the greet.
ings received. b young religious,
was one from” the novices of the
Mother House, St. Mary's, Dublin,
“This
Here will
ALL HALLOWS ORDINATIONS
‘The annual Ordinations took place on
Sydney; Rev.
sane, *eeaney: Rev.
nell, Sydney Rev, Patrick MeGtaley,
vy. Timothy Collins, Goul-
James eneghan,
Leen, Sacramento;
Rev. Humphrey Moynihan, Melbourne;
Rey. Patrick Burke,
take off his uniform, the soldiers as- *
serted fat ae itt they found him|!¢%» Portsmouth; Rev.
on a very vagecty on ney, Alton; Rev. Matthew Gilbert,
owas shot along. with Aptonto: Revs som
him was one of the highly placed off .
clals in the Brewery. After the shoot- Thomas Marphys Sandhu!
ing of Ltoutenant, Lucas and Rice, an-|!#m OPivnm, Sydney; Rev. 6 Mur
oiner offeer m Lieutenant Wore-| BBY Hobarts: Rev. aatontae, ama
wick came along in the dark with an-|‘* OP.
or
other Brewery official named Dockeray.
Sergeant Flood collared them also as| HOW MAC BRIDE DIED,
Sinn Feiners, and in the altercatio —.—
that ensued th :
pas levules. also ne se A correspondent in the Nation
papers remark, Sergeant Flood and hie|ferioee the murder of Major MacBride
in an extraordinary state|®® follows: The officer in charge of
er ecyumpinesn” and they belteved that | 2° fring arty showed some emotion.
the Brewery was full of Sinn Fe nera|MacBride said, gently: “Do not let
that night although ao proof wa sven what you have to do ever disturb your
that any of the Irish olonters were rest.” And when it was proposed to
there at all, ‘The result of It wwas that blind his eyes he refused, and sud
Fire when I bow my head.”
al my life.
keray, moved in v
embers of th
dare Street Club, and en deaths were
M. A. O’Connor
Lieutenant Lucas came from Canada to
fight for England, and it is ae that
@ courtmartial ac ulted Sergeant
Flood on the grounds thal t he made an
GENERAL JOB PRINTER
Is Now Located At
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honest mistake, although a very tragic
great many of the outrages
mitted by panicky soldiers were credit.
ed by the papers to thé Irish veuane
rs, who had the greatest regard f
we life and property of their own pew
and who treated everybody with
ae
—-+
TRISH BROTHERS | NOVITIATE
Three Young Men 3 Men Received pte
Famous Teachin;
First Reception in the Taited
& fat tes
feast of the Sacred Heart,
june at, “an interesting and pignifeant it
ceremony fork place at
no’
a8
8
Ireland, 187 W
a the Ts Unites
een to their superiors w:
a term of strict retreat which im-
medlately preceded the impressive cere-
‘8 Doortey and Cur-
tis and the Brothers of All Saints’ and
Institute were present to
honor their younger Brothers in re.
rae was celebrated at 6:30 A. M.
Rev. Kavanagh and was im-
ceremony of the reception of
the religious nentt from the handa of
the Master of Kovices, Right Rev.
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