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so The Saetic Gmenican.
January 1, 1916,
SAVAGE INHUMANITY OF BRITISH GOVERNMENT.
_ Sister Emma, a New York Nurse, Kitled by Infection Contracted Because
of the Refusal of English to Permit the Exportation of Rubber Gloves
For Use in Hospitals in War Zone—William Bayard Hale Writes Scath-
ing Indictment of the Embargo and. of Meek Submission of Wilson
Administration to Arrogant and Illegal Action of Privy Councit—Mabel
Boardman, Head of American Red Cross, Denounces Order In Council as
" Most Inhuman Act of the War"—Spring Rice Issues Lying Explanation,
p who was one bassador at Berlin, bad offered hinsself
William Bayard Hale,
of President Wilson's confidential in-| to receive and distribute rubber gloves
vestigators in Mexico, anc m-} to ‘ican nurses in Ge!
plete report on the conditions there} offer had been declined. .
during the progress of the revolution,| The English position (let us do it
Justice!) Is that every pair of rubber
's into Germany releases
ending quantity of rhar tor
autemobile tires and other military ne-
essitles ‘Rubber, a itateraent
Emma had experience ; sou d by the British Embassy at Wash-
| ington on Christmas Eve, “is an article
reat im a milita
in a signed article in last Sunday's New
Amerigan, tells a thrilling story | gloves that
of the killing of Emma Duensing, a{ a corresn
N
Pairs of rubver gloves, such a3 those
was sent as head nur the lack of which killed Emma Duen-
’ Expedition Committee! sing, would make an automobile tire.
Her Beadguarters were| AMERICAN HEROINE TO LAMENT.
in the town of Oppela, Stiles I should be loath to pass any jud
While engazeg in her duties there she ment upon the fate of Miss zai
contracted infection from the wounds of‘ Caxell, the English nurse who was
tenced to death because, under cove:
she assisted Snellen
je had Sister Emma prisoners to escape. No doubt her
her questionable enter-
eb
specially for the efficlent handling of| prise. Perhaps the rt ith
infected cases. But last May, England! the military law wl Hoh she defied was
issued an Order in Council g rud-! applied t
Sh
fd not herself complata that it was un-
Let the English lament her as @
heroine, ~ .
“As for us Americans, we have our
rican woman
ver contraband of war, It did
the “humonitarizns” 1a London! just,
needed for
r
gloves were
3 of our soldiers, and who
Spanish-American War pliances humane
stricken soldiers. labors. -
i ngland’s humanity and! “yfilitary necessity”
her deflance of ali laws of we have learned to a
necessary to
is a plea which
mit as @ reason,
that affect herself, or an excuse, for many sins against
humanity. Whether it-can be extend-
is not only an in-' ed to cover the heartless condemnation
aictrient of England for the wining of! to death of nurses in the enemy's ter-
but it onclu- | ritory, I doubt. . Whether Amerie
nt of the, Wilton Admin. public sentiment, disposed though it be
r allowing He to condone almost oy English Set, will
enswers the question: ty te go so far, I que:
Kil Sists a?” in pla
English Emma?
language, the significance of which e¢
the droits
use,”
BLAMES winsow ADMIN ISTRATION
. If it were possible to understand the
the
cling to the coat tails of President Wil- t was 0
iaistration not to attempt to
right. For
bar of Am exercise this the greater
a eee ee nae eae) part of a sear a Wilson's Adminis
woman, and will, probably Tesult in the| tration fy whether to
tourder of many more, However, it/ S8¥, meekly submitted or cheerfully con:
sented.
would seem that | there is more active “Why the English kill Sister
yy did
mma?” asked m:
The answer one was ‘tempted to give
him was:
‘Secause the presently existing Gov-
ernment of the Laited States allowed
the Doglish to kill h
CRIME acarier. “HUMANITY.
Miss Mabel Boardman, President of
tel
sities for the Red Cross women at the
front.
Mr. Hale’s article follows:
sald fm}
y young sons
counted
up bis
one
the
and for
imitting what she declares oo be the
“most inhuman act of the "She
confirms Mr isles naletnen and de-
clares., th have
died tro infection, Sneluding some vol-
she is known—
her beautiful walk of
help and comfort ae Em juensing, to
give her the “under which she
moved in the ordinary world), wag for
of the
-—in
number of years one best! untee orkers from Amer-
known and most beloved of New York's] ica. "Mas Boardman bss a world-wide
trained nurees. 3 n house is one| reputation head the American
of scores of hi sos in ya Red Cross. condemning the embargo
a “crime against’ humanity,” Miss
e
pathy; bomes where, through long night! Boardman says:
urs of unwearying vigil, her volce} | “This latest decree of the British
has calmed and her hand has soothed.! Privy Council, in probibiting the dis-
‘When, tn 1990, there was a call pateh, of velted supplies of any, sort to
nurses for American army in rallies, is the most
Philippines, Sister Emma responded. .I| inhuman act of the war. It is a crime
have been told that her services among | against humanity.
ve Shalt apreal to the Chief Execu-
tive and t lepartment to hav
is order, ‘veacinde: beer since the
beginning of the wat
trouble in regard to cending relief su
plies, not only to Germany, but to
rountries—soine of them Great Brit.
ii
n modest recitals
that they were heroic.
DIED FROM INFECTION.
nm the present war bro!
upon her the duty of again volunteer-} Count:
ing for work among the wounded »
September she sailed for Europe, under| ,, Great “pritain's decree prohibiting
mee ae eae cmetione’ phyat., te sending of rubber goods to Ger-
clans’ Expedition Committee, as bead many prevents the supplying ef tha
C field and emergency hospitals with rub-
nurse of a reltef unit, Before the month, pelt and emergency he aera a
p, on duty tm the town’of Oppeln.| oo ie a costal ade
have died of infection. Some. have
mt
She was atlendiug, and on November 5, B6t® Dhyslelans and nurves, ‘The latter] ¢
she dled. i
Ter death was directly due to the) Werers from Ame eee humanity, but
fact that she wag obliged to work with-
out rubber gloves, which the Brit! Jeb:
Government refused and which it scat, f
refuses to ailow the American Red/ ,,
Cross to supply to its workers in Ger-! '
man anda rubber veing contraband oti
: Goa ‘knows, what the English are acting
“We shalt continue we gona rellef ma-
tial to Great Bi
ing Mr. Hale’s indictment
months Miss Mabel Boardman, ! arémaa’s eauatly strong
president of the American Red Cross, nunciation “ot the tuhumanity of the
had fp vain endeavored to per-| embargo, the British Embassy issued a
cde tho British Government te adopt; statement trying to defend the new
bumane course, Mr. Gerard, o t Aur | policy of its Government of “murder of
American women by Orders in Council.”
sir Cecil Spring-Rice, the British Am-
ne basis of his
that rubber gloves. did
me within the list of articles declared
ds -
“On May 11 the British Government
communicated to the United States Gov-
ernment a list of articles which they
were prepared to accept coming
within the description contained in the
‘Declaration of London, article 29 (1),
as articles serving exclusively to aid the
8 fore not
lable to be considered rs contraban
of war provided that a general agree-
ment between the belligerent Powers
could be secured.
“Rubber goods, such as gloves ani
rubber sheets, were not included in
this list, and rubber being contraband
of war and an asticle of gre
tance from a military point o|
such Roos Were not allowed to pass
into Germany.”
hat @ general agreement
between the belligerent Powers could
be secured,” awks Spring-Rice.
be alive and ministering to wounded
soldiers. Clearly, Mi
points out, “Great
hiviting the sending of rubber goods
sential in hospital rk. Clearly, too,
Sp ring-Rice to the contrary notwti
tanding, Miss Boardman’s deciaration
esto hes the unquestionable truth of
Hale's denunciation of the “savage
inbunanity of the British Govern:
ment.” ~
id yet as Mr. Hale points out in his.
article while the United States
legal
8]
“perfect, complete an
tionable right to s
an in the worl
Administration has, as
inntetraton and the British Govern
‘answer for it to the enlight-
coe eiiieation of the world,
-y the inhumanity
further ‘tad ill more Red Cross nurses
and needlessly torture wounded soldiers
the following order was issued in Lon-
mas Eve:
royal proclamation published
expor-
“By a
in tonight's London Gazette the
con-
signed to the Societe Suisse de Surveil
lance Economique, corresponding to the
Netherlands Overseas Trust, with which
the Government has a similar agree-
Sth fhe ricoh poly of pravent
ing any
through neutral “cousties ‘has been care
ried a step further.
replying to the Swedish Govern-
nd adopted unanimously, ex-
cluded the parcels post from
tion given by thi
the letter post. This resol
spective glance into history will
hi
pes
© Miss Boardman that
a that the American Red Cross
is havi
CUMANN NA mBAN, INC.
PLANS IRISE IRISH ‘GONCERT.
esday evening, | Decembe er oe a
resular “pusiness ‘meetin was held by
Cumann na mBan, Inc., at- headquar-
ters, Madison Avenue and Fifty-ninth
Stre
Resolutions of sympathy were Passee
and letters of condolence ordered seni
to the President, Miss Sarah Macieel
vey, 0 bereavement sustained by
the death of her brother.
Proposals for membership included
Miss Eleanor MeCarthy and Miss Mollie
McCarthy, of Astoria, L. 1.
A lively tnterest is elng tanifested
the arrangem for a rea] [ri
concert, “ be held under the auepices
of at St. Gabriel's
Schoo! Hat rolex Street, near
Second Aver Wednesday evening,
anuary 19, 1916 The Proceeds will go
to the support of the in Ireland
who stand unarmed in the gap, but de-
termined to resist Conseription at arly
‘ost,
Cumann na mBan makes an earnest
appeal to all Irishmen and Irishwomen
America to rally to the support of
these brave mien whose lives are {n
«A splendid opportunity ie of
fered the Irish of New Yorke to prove
{heir interest in the work of patriotism
ing this concert support that will
material contribution to the
Triad | Volwatear Fund,
mittee in charge is sparing
no he fine to take this event one of the
most thoroughly Irish yet witgessed in
New York.
APPELLATE piven
SETTLES A,
The right of the
Bi
SPUTE,
« County
"ihe otody affili-
name of the organ’
cided by the Appellate, ‘Division of the
Firet Judicial Department of “the Su-
preme Court, to which au appeal res
taken from a decision rendered by
Judge Donnelly on Septeniber 3 by a
number of insurgents who style teem-
selves the New York County Board of
th
‘The insurgent Board refused to recor
nize the authority of National Presi-
dent McLaughiia, and flouted his orders
fat a meoting hel in New York some
months: age with the result that the Av
oO. a
Tred | ‘ond ‘ie insubordinate
members placed outside the pale of the
Order.
The insurgents attempted ite restrain
the recognized body from ‘holding @
Fienfe last Fall and applied for an in-
junction whi
cided against them. he appeal
d
from hts decision
with costs by the Ap je Division of
the Su t on Christmas Ev
sion concurred in the decision.
R. Kennedy. 1s President of the
recognized County Board, and James F.
Gilligan is County Secretary.
ores
STARVING IRISH EDUCATION
A meeting of the Organization Com-
mittee of the Gae 8 held.on
December 7 at the ‘headquart 25 Pare
nell Square, Dublin, iss Nellie O'Brien
presiding.
‘The raid on“ Irish reducational funds
was considered, and correspondence on
the subject received from the country.
t was mentioned that the grant to the
Royal Irish Acateny of Music had ven
5 topped already, that Lord Wimborne's
hat the Royal i rish Academy fore-
shadowed tbat the grant to that «inst
tution would be stopped also, that t
Department ot Agriculture were cutting
nts for teachers’ in sci-
ence, Trish and other subjects.
greed that nless steps were
ald con-
tion, and. the Committee urged the
Education Committee of the League to
summon a conference of the Gaelic Col-
deges, mediately to deal with their
f the question, ani reconimiend
he Coiste no otha to organize a great
pubiie demonstration in Dublin, sore
sentati il _eucational ine
terests, to warn the ury to
their hands off the all ready ly too meagre
grants “wrailable for education in Ire
Jan
~ GOLOHEL HOUSE'S MISSION.
(Continued from from Page 1.)
Colonel House will be expected to use
his tact and settle this inside
“If Colonel House m: ages. “ro im-
rel n service without caus-
mbassadors to resign,
the Adinnitraton will consider itself
greatly d to the silent gentleman
The despatch tien goes on'ia dearribe
the “lack of team work” and the quai
rels between the Abas salors verbing
Page's assumption of authority
over them, and
“When Colonel ‘louse was sent to Eu-
Tope by President Wilson
ie verge of resign-
. Colonel House is “sup-
posed to have tora him quite frankly
that he should carefully respect the
position rand “authority of his colleagues
at other. po
The standing of Mr. Gerard in Berlin
receves a good deal of attentior in the
espateh, and regarding Colonel House's
isle to the German Capital is says
among other things:
“If Colonel House has an opportunity
munications.
that the reasoning o
explained or should
et te the Berlin Forelgn Ofte fifteen
mtbs ago, th hae
bits of news are sufficient to expose the
reckless system of lying and supp’
ee of the truth practised i“ the En
as, order to keep the American peo
ple n the dark regarding events of the
utmost importance to the human race.
e English people are resenting the
action of tbelt own censorship and
| GAELIC SINGING
An bireauntas Tt Prize Winner
A Knowledge of Gaelic Not Neves
ry
ABSOLUTELY NEW System
My
manding why news of disasters like For Particulars A. -
that at Suvla Bay are withheld from AD?
: ; GEORGE POTTER
Professor. Taft, who*was fortpeace at ( #186 UA BROIN”)
any price while he was President, 13} 200 West 143th St N.Y. Cit
+ Mity
208 in favor of amilitary driti In col
istency and Mr.. Taft are
drifelng further apart every day.
Open ior Engagements ‘or PF Concer,
Bangqyets,
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. President, J. P. McAvoy, Kilken! . ‘Treasurer, P. Dillon, Limerict
Vice-President, J. P. Hayes, Lattin 7 Secretary, J. J, O'Connor, Cork
reasons for belleving that the Germ
overninent never has _ grasped * this
Government’s viewpoint on the subject.
“Althoug!
nel House will have the, hardest
tasie on his life in convincing the Ger-
man Government that the action of the
Wilson ‘Admfnlstration oring
rmany’s wireless “communications,
while allowing England to send all the
cipher communications by
cable, is not a shameless breach of neu:
trality, The result of its action in r
ard to the Sayville wireless station {s
to leave the American people at the
mercy of England in the matter of war
news. Everything regarding the war
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. -_—
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LEADING IRISH TAILOR,
941 Sixth Avenue, ~ New York
phat the British cemor allows to reac
hem from Lon
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