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‘Vol. XIII, No. 86, Whole No,
677. t
NEW YORK, SEPTEMBER 2, 1916,
Bx
tered
New York. Ne
a8 second-c)
jasa matter, Oct. 1, 1903, at the Post Office at
'Y., under the act of Congress of Mareh 3. 1872.
TO THE CAUSE OF IRISH INDEPENDENCE, IRISH LITERATURE AND THE INTERESTS OF THE IRISH RACE,
PRICE FIVE CENTS.
| E GLAND VIOLATES ALL INTERNATIONAL LAW
Mr. Gaffuey, Former American Consul-General In Munich, Who Was Displaced By Presi,
dent Wilson At The Demand Of The British Goverment, Because He Had Done
His Duty, Tells A Story Of Outrageous Treatment While On A Neutral Ship At a
Kirkwall—Searched As lf He Were A British Subject, Under The Defence Of ine and
‘The Realm Act, His Private Letters, His Wife’s Business Papers And His mm
American Bonds Confiscated—An American Citizen Has No Rights Which
British Officers Are Bound To Respect—New York Evening Papers Suppress
| Bis Statement OF Facts And Publish A Vile Tissuc Of Lies,
Thomas St. John Gaffney, former
United * states Consul General to Mu-
nich, arrived in New York from Copen-
hagen on, Tieotay “tase on. board the;
eamsito Fre! VHt.~-and was
ade the ubfect ‘in “ine evening papers
at that day of the most shameless lying
and misrepresentation ever indulged in
by the New York press. He had a story
of gross ill-treatment at the hands of
Brits officials at Kirkwall and hand-
fully prepared and
ste
sppewettan; to the report 1n order | than ts usually the case.
to smother this statement of British |@2t in command immediately demand
- an Ameria clizn, the) @t Sat Mr. St. Joho Gaftuey be sent
cubelal age of Ni rk earned | for. It will be Poca that after seven
their money by lying audaciously.. | years’ service General in
's Evening Su ore au- Germany, president ‘nion requested
paceengers S being disgusted with Mr.
Gainey to say
that ‘he Countess Bernstorff,. wife of
German on Ambaseador, who was
was
in bint when anybody else.
wrecked more
iy other mi
= morning the
losing in. circulation cand advertising.
So, instead’ of telling of outrageous vio-
lations of inter national law by British
‘ officials in. their trea! ment, of an’ Ameri-
“of * Irish birth,
attacks on the United Statés which Gaff-
e eporters;
itish. organs were aided
conatderatiy it thelr work of lying by
& fellow on his y back from Russia
who had cleaned te $1,000,000 for his
ing the palms of a d or more ine’
tuptible officers who passed the articles
as “warranted to rods”
the Allies, the purity
the certainty of their overwhelming vic-
tory, and, sitting at the Same table with
Germ:
He ntly » insulted
them oy calling thelr countrymen “mur-
an and other epi-
ead and
eternal disturber of the peace’ of the
wid.”
ne ither the reporter ann the
copyreaders bad ever re line of
Thomas. Jefferson's. writing sand
Wouldn't know the great American from
side of sole
1
press
gets more corrupt 2 and untrustworthy as
Durve: of its workers are
sowing Tees and Tess intelligent and
more
trivial, th
The statement. ot jmprorer . treat:
ment, the of the, pa
of the lying and corrupt New Yor!
Pers and the Washington Government
Rust take action on it.. Whether tha‘
the resignation of Mr. Gaffney last No-
sup. gn: y
more aie |
an in the} %
“*! knowledgment of ‘his regret and help-
cl
r-| ter giving Germ:
and more stupid, flippant and|
| receipt for these o panteations
: Petree with 1 indignation by a nu
t PROTEST TO AMERICAN AMBASSA-
given an opportunity of passing judg-
ment on ft next November.
MR. GAFFREY'S SHAMEFUL
TREATHENT.
When
VIII. dropped anchor in Kirk Sun-
gi |, she was pounded by a
larger force of ition naval officiats
TE
&
vember for alleged pro-German sympa-
thies. Us
fioials to open bis room and unlock is
various leces of baggage.
Mr.
Mr, Gatfney further declared
that “it was sufictent that the ship’
Papers be exa cover if any
contral an
of wrivate uoutral, individuals
“He asserted that the! Danish ships
are forced to place themselves within
the jurisdiction of the British waters in
order that the British authorities may
have an opportunity of ontraging the
Persona and rights merican citi-
eng. The Captain took official notice
of Mr. Gelfney’s protest with an. ac-
leseness,
Fr ran hour Mr. Gattney's effects
were ubjecte ed to a ritical ex-
amination, at the. usion of which
he was compelled to submit to a -per-
sonal search. Nothing indicating that
‘Mr. Gafiney wi
to be allowed to reach the United States
their instructions were to seize
uments found in Mr. Gaffney's
therefore, whether
or his private
in,
his papers,
Company, his pe address ai
memorandum book dealing with Mrs,
Geffney’s: American property, and the
Wolf, were taken from Variou:
clippings from American, English,
eneh and German papers and ise
several books. and pamphlets were
Be wae. Some of these had alrealy deen
examined at Falmouth last February
Mr. Gaffney by the
re, and were Amer-
and
English, ofa “ne
The following is a
ican - publica ions.
partial
“The Faith of an Irishm:
ermeny,” two copies by AZo
‘Who Is
“war” These ‘two lat.
ter books are by the Bagltehman Hous-
ton Stewart Chamberlai
Mr. Gaffney demanded and received 8
Tt ta am
cessary to that he ested
energetically against all these outrage:
ous and Illegal proceedings, which were
me
of the passenger:
Gaffney's statement is as fol-| 7°
—— thi
the Danish liner Prederick
d not those
ze
the American Ambassador in London:
ixcellency :
“I have to inform you that today, in
gross contravention of Internattonat
~ and despite my protest made
he captain of the ship I was searched
in the most ignominfous manner by the
ritish authorities at Kirkwall My
at only searched, but tn
bonds of the Wiscon-
of the value
00ks:
most earnest! IY Drotest to you against
is outrage mitted against the
rersou of an ‘American citizen, who
‘as for nearly eleven years the Consul
of the United State: the
any of New York, and the Fifth Ave-
nue
Viaving sesled and stamped it he
handed it to the > Enslish Lieutenant in
nesses, re-
questing him The
Lieutenant took i
© assurance that the letter
would be forwarded to the American
Ambassador.
Having concluded
methods with
next, called for Mr. Joseph
another first cabin Passenger, who had
beer
i
their “blockade”
ustria-Hungary
in the purely business ‘ateresta of the
American private business: institution
of John Nemeth, with
Broadway. New York Tfeute onan
Adams of the Royal British Navy ac-
companied by three, sailors, compelled
Mr. Lederer by force majeure
mit his baggage and person to search.
a orier to more. uiedy exterminate
Lieu Adams confis
apers which
ee e were able to overthi
Germany our fountry would be the next
to be dealt
PROTEST Pa vee SHIP'S CAPTAIN,
John Gaffney made the f
lowing protest to the Captain of the
jateamship, Frederick
‘Si have th omar ‘to confirm in
writing the verbal protest made by me
S
ro
to you on the occasion of the search of
my personal effects by the British at
Kirlewall I enclose her
jum dealing with this illegal and
tnwarrantable proceeding was in
gross Molation of all the canons of In-
ternat! law.
would respectfully request that
you submit this protest and the accom:
memorandum to the. Board of
Directors of your Coi which I
will forward the same to the
Royal Danish’ Government.
shall without fete after my ar
rival in New eed to Washing:
ton and make 2 crite protest in per
son aa the erican Secretary of
Stat
MEMORANDUSE.
. War vessels have the right
of search of al vessels without re-
gard to natfor
‘The cneoutton of this right,
contraband,
sient that the ship's papers be
examined and not those of private
inate Is.
rate or personal papers
may tee xamined only, by the Cap-
tain of the vessel as the. legal rep-
ntative of the police authority.
s handed over
third person for delivery in
the ‘Gnitea States should be regard-
ed as postal matter, and according
to International Law are. free from
famaina on.
ish Government in
response to the Protest of TP he neu-
1
standpoint. that the. ina
examined only 1 in Englichy tension
tal watere and not on the high se
Toe Danish ships are com
pelie d by force mejeure
themecives within thts Heneateton
irkwall, which fs not a port
eat
not as a neutral
‘ for is In nftation with a hostile
Power, it is an old and universally
accepted principle of International
neutrals are . forbidden
“Before the netlet ‘tett the ship Mr.
Gaffney wrote the following letter, to
acti
Mr, Gaffney the British
a
to subd-| o!
. thrilling tory of
nto | Faids
Iai 3
ewith a memo-| g,
8 {It the English cletm to re- Stal
r as immediate support of a
of International La
Jacking for the English procedure.
been established by
ous precedents tat an
messengers, or of a
belligerent cannot te. *protiblted
to a neutral State,
in
England upheld this principle
the case oC diason and Sliddet? in
the Trent
Mr. Gaffney
to lay his case before the State
ment and demand redres
oe
is going to Washington
Depart
e| ZIP! HERE COME THE ZEPPS.
it was usually some
Indeed, so futile were “the raids
that the world was given to understand
the Londoners awaited
a, kind ‘of holiday’ amusement.
course the exact opposite was the truth,
The fine folk of London
parts of England are in “deadly terror
other
wrousht will not very likely be made
i
now.
Hen: ay M. Enright, a Chicago woolen
merchant, arrived a few days since on
the American Liner Finiond and told a
last Zeprelin
over the. norenesst coast of En;
nm, women
the nearby districts on the Humber, but
all news was
papers as to the loss
facts were made known. only by word
of mouth,” said “Mr. Enright. “The
Zeppelins flew at an altitude of
to 17,000 fect, ar
craft guns cow
cause of the reat loss of life w
I-was informed, to the ‘people disobey-
ing the ‘Admiralty. instructions to take
to their cellars when the warnin’
sent out of the approach of the raiders.”
Mr. Enright said that when he went
‘0 Ireland recently on business he
found a great deal ‘of bitter feeling to-
ward England f:: Dublin and in. the
South, where 150,000 troops were sta-
tioned to prevent any more trouble.
everal newspapers were being printed
and circulated secretly in Ireland, and
he brought two back with him. One
was the Irish Nation and the other the
Sunday Independent. Both papers con-
tained attacks on the British Govern-
ment’s policy toward Ircland and ‘car-
toons depicting what the English were
doing. for the count
Franklin Adams, hier Clerk of the
an-American Union in Washington,
aid that four zepvelin raids took Place
during the ten days he wae
0 was a school wench
er in England, arrived also on the Fin
land, He confirm: t was frequent-
ly reported, that the greater part of the
Woolwich Arsenal has been destroyed.
He declares also that the children in
the various acho! of London devote
e io eco!
what ® hn
—a form of Zeppelin preparedness, than
they do to their regular studie
‘he correspondent of the New York
World, writing from Berlin on August
21, says that Ireland is outside the zone
prescribed for Zeppelin stencks) that so
far as ins are c Ireland
is not reeried as enemy y territory inthe
sense that England and Scotlan
and the Em erald Isle, for the present
at least, will be as free from Zeppelins
es it is of snakes.
REIGN OF TERROR PREVAILS
A relgn of error att aul | Prevalle in Ire-
which in normal times
gE sentences were
four-
other, the
the Zeppeline ald nit anything| 8
inoffensive j tor!
their advent as] staun'
raided London| py the
YJelections will be permitted in Ireland
160 st
chnaren: ited in the city of Hull, and
as| te
REDMOND HAS LOST
Now “Oa The Statute Book” And
!
(irish Press and News Service.)
DUBLIN, Aug. 19—The condition of
Ireland has changed for the worse in
e last month. All factions of Nation-
England in Deadly Fear of Zep- alists agree that Home Rul dana.
: F e
pelins—Children in the Schools The fatal surrender of Ulster: by tt
” rish Parliamentary Party not only
Taught the “Zeppelin Creep”| seated the fate of the provisional Dill,
Fearful Havoc Wrought but has rendered hopeless the task of
the Liberal Party in executing ene
Various Raids—Ireland .to Be tome Hone FE :
Immune From Attacks, the Statute Book, postponed until after
If we were to beiieve the newspapers t r, and utterly destroyed by
the air raids on mn England since the the substitute, accept yy Mr.
niencement of the war have been a fear. mond, ich, too, has failed, leaving
ful fasco, They rarely did any damage Ireland to be ruled by General Maxwell
will overned
by. fhe military powers in control ‘of the
islan’
nepwowd VERY DEJECTED.
Mr. Redmond is somewhat relieved
Government's assurance
this year. Your correspondent met him
in London. He appears greatly depres
sed, seldom appears in and
speaks but rarely in the ou of Com-
ards bim!
all des after hi
Ireland,
been
igent recruiting campaign {8
which he sa;
est ingratitude, r he had
literally taken ‘ais ite ta ite "hands by
adopting a course condemned by many
friends, when’ the Coalition Govern-
ment humiliated him before the world
disputing and repudiating his al-
leged waderstending with Lloyd George
over Home Ri
Archbishop Walsh, of Dublin; Bishop
of | Limerick, a”
of prison, "and
o "pelleve the Irlsh
Party should resign. their seats in. the
mons, as the opinion pre-
vails that the Party can do no
Parliament and has become detrimental
© all National aspiration:
ernment for the execution of the Irish
prisoners of W
DEVLIN pos ‘coNTnOL OF THE
PARTY.
His friends palatal recall his si-
lence at the
retainers hold
surance, old age
strain,
many places in the in:
re, | pension, other Government
branches.
Mr. Deviin says that if Lloyd George
can carry the a successful con-
sion ther be an Imperialistic
Federation which will include Ireland,
¢ a West British colony
Ho notes the popularity in England
ot Premier Hugh Yabor man, of
stralia, and seems to think serious
tli that Ireland. it made loyal to Eng
pr
ar, for Dev-
lin tells bis supporters that England
will have defeated rman; 6:
pring, and will dictate a peaci y
‘That “1
tion of Colontes, will grow and prosper,
children will not emigrate, and
such actions which may ter-
preted as direct participation in the
beer
peace for twelve manths, An appeal has
m lodged. 2 fy shew
h
therefore the support of Am be
Me opinion, trom his potat of vio may
ys netted at least 100,000|as Secret:
ritish Government, cone me tiacks
edmond keonly feels the loss .
Mr.
of American suprort and notes with
dismay the: steady “fustlade of Ameri-| .
can press attacks on the British Gov-
HIS GRIP IN: IRELAND
After Betraying His Country And Throwing Away The Greatest Opportunity That
Ever Came To An Irish Leader, The English Government Throws Him Aside
As A Broken Tool And His Own Counirymen Loathe And Despise Bim—By
Agrecing That Ireland Should Be Cut Ia Two, He Nullified The Worthless Bill
All His Treacherous Scheming Has Come
To Naught—Dejected And Despised He Is Now A Negligible Quantity And
Devlia Is Intriguing For The Leadership Of The Broken Party—Butcher
Maxwell Rules Ireland Through Martial Law.
be regarded no longer as necessary in
under English rule and forgive and for-
past.
JOHN REDMOND SKEPTICAL.
John. Dillon, of Dublin, and William
00
Redmond has little faith in
+) the Promises of Lloyd George to Deviin
aftel . His intimates say he
would really prefer to trust Sir Edward
Carson, the Orange leader, who, at
least, id ot deceive him in the recent
negotiat
Redm son says that his Home Rule
suffer irreparable Joss in
the retirement from Cabinet of
Churchill, John Morley, ohn Burns end
Trevelyan, stout friends of Home Rule,
1
who replaced by Tories.
rorley, Burne and Trevelyan resigned
from th binet-on the ground that
-| war over the invasion of Belgium.
forced resignation of Augustine Birrell
oldiers for the British army, and that|and supporter of Redmond, and his re-
Irish. soldiers saved “the Britiss :army | placement by a Tory Secretary and the
from several disasters in Flanders. petra of Dublin Castle wale, seem to
- have nt Prop”
will do no anne fecruiting: \ He
is condemned by‘ many people in Ire- from under Mr. Redmond, and he {
land for his recruiting speeckes ; nad jected in the extreme over the fate ox
agencies, and, on the other hand,” vel
Scarcely one-fourth of the Connaught
al ‘The same is tru:
of the Dublins, Munsters, Enniskill-
ens and other crack Iris! ment:
There are actualy more English troops
occupying Ireland, guardin
bellion, than the entire number of pure-
ly Irish active soldiers fighting on all
onts.
AS SEEN FROM BELFAST.
FAST, Aug. 12.—The great ship
workers are not
land. Many have crossed over from
kngland’ and Scotland teinking to es-
cape conscription rking on ship
construction destined for the transport
service. One-third 0} rmanen
population of Belfast is Netiouallst, but
ey do not hold the best positions in
the ship yards or factories. They have
time living under the oppres-
sive taskmakers, especially since the
Dublin uprisings. Many of them have
been discharged fer alleged sympathy
with the rebels and are scorned for not
entering the Th not pass
permit their enemies to a
time in High Street in West.
vlin’s Nationalist Club 1s, crowded
nightly and on organ, the Irish News,
nly moderately Nationalist
i tone, and. may be said to have been
‘al ‘he voting Msts of
are scrutinized closely,
the ef-
e the most power
le om
pata Tender in Ireland. pe
only per of the Irf ot ith
a Protestant Demotratic ‘followin, and
he friends ‘claim a increased support
from that clement which will offset the
Jom of old sorters who have left
the se his plan of
separating portions ‘ot Ulster from the
remainder of Ireland. The Uleter
el rey, a5 aru le, of all denominations
oppose the
trade end banking with other sections
of one country.
ir Edward “Carson is faced with a
- (Continued on Page 5.)