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tablished in Irelans China. a ,
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pleasure in inviting you e be nr ene not tackling a single town, neither are
at this meeting. Charles. they dividing themselves up into more
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4 JOURNAL DEVOTED TO THE CAUSE OF IRISH INDEPENDENCE, IRISH LITERATURE AND THE INTERESTS OF THE IRISH RACE. .
Vol. XII, No, 5.
COLLECTING MONEY UNDER FALSE PRETENCES
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Whole No. 646. ‘
-Lord And Lady Aberdeeu Want To Raise $50,000 In America To Continue, Under The
Mask Of Charity, The Work Of Besationalization And Demoralization They
Have Been Carrying Gn fn Ireland For Many Years—They ‘Are Eng-
land's Agents Here To Help Her In The War—United Irish Ameri=
can Societies Pass Resolutions Condemning The Impudent
Fraud And Waraing The Public—The “ Auti-Tubercu- .
losis” Campaign A Fraudutent Political Move- :
se ment—Aa Anglomaniac Reception Committee.
chel are at the head of the Honorary
Co! oma mitt
*Comumittee—sosenh H. Choate, Sir
Arthur and Lady Herbert, Mrs. Charies
The annual meeting o the Unitea
Irish-American’ Societies New York
was held at the Thisbeamerican Athleti
Club building, 159 East Sixtieth suet,
on Friday evenings January 21, for
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thé coming year. “oh ere was a large at-| are $20.00, Second toer boxes, $16.00,
tendance from both Manhattan and Onehestra seats, $1.50 sane $1.00,
Brook: Major Michael & O'Rourk indly reply to Schuy!
presided. Nearly all the outgoing om. Warren, if West Yorty-eighth Street,
~ cers and committees were re-elected. | New
Yor!
The United Irish-American Societies
dealt. with ‘this brazen impudence by
routine busi-
condemn-
At the conclusion of the
ness resolution ms were passed
ing-the proposed meeting in Carnegte| passin: ons, which will be found
il on Wednesday evening, January | in ano on of this ‘paper.
26, at which Lord ly Aberdes
STRANGLING AMERICAN
TRADE IN FAR EAST.
English Methods Designed to
Hold. Chinese Commerce ot
United States in Check N
As to Maintain Control. tt
it-in Future,
That England is bending every effort
to strangle America ree in the
Far East with the ultimate purpose of
stealing it for herself in the future is
© best, from Boston to| evident from an stevie am Alfred
San Francisco, and failed. No English] Kichter, published in th York
mission for many years has proved such es “Richter
a sorry failure. eee Aitempted | megs is an and business
in avery..city” dp, le with offices
and’ they were an Trost. Bren ‘a sat
her wor
erly applied for the benefit of the ‘0
ple of Ireland.
t is the most Jmpudent presumption
ot which even Lady Al
was sent vere by
eign trade that it is impossible to ship
merchandise from
ing him around like a p it. Ag je Japa
< meeting ‘and the banquet were bad fail-| ese steamship companies in Tien Tsin
ures, In re berdeet have been instructed, Mr. Richter says,
. were one of the exhibits at the Panama} by the Japanese Consul ate there, not to
gz his name,
unless the British Gonsar signs the
shipping order.
an example of the. high banded
methods of the British in the Far
move by forced “marches on} Mr. Richter gives the following teat -
the West again. Something must be] mony, as. well as the methods in
done to stop, or block, the subscriptions operation to cripple: American com-
yr the Defence of Ireland Fund and] merce now, so as to be in position to
that something must be painted green | control it in the future:
and labelled “Irish.” . So when . the “Ours:
silent and ubiquitous Boyle returned
Pacific Fair, but faile
between
g and everything to
can importers to buy exclusively from
British concerns in China,
“The
eee oon sul in ‘Tien Tsin
money.
A committee was organized and m
nd tho have been dying ‘ot
Jove of Ireland for a thousand years or
put in ¢ The vener-
o
a
the tremendous gains Americans have
made in China can be gleaned trom.t!
following confidential notice that has
been distributed among members ot the
mber of Commerce in
Shanghat
our Am friends,
ing the pocstotities of this market nd
owers are en-
gaged ati the moment elsewhere, are
getting busy so as to take away*all the
all to go home. America, he assur trade er can from all of us.
them, could well spare them and the| ‘It is common knowledge that the
: . they went the bett mee | American Minister tnd Consul General,
who fs now in the States, are at the
d ‘that| heads of commissions and committees
wie h are vigorously prosecuting their
about an Anglo-American 0
ensure that Ireland would bebave her-
‘he only two Irish-Americans” men-
“tional in the Invitation to the “recep-
tion”. to Lady Abe: ae rem a ranized by
tnt Mayor Mitel. Fs the av blets. and magazines from Ameri
“tat a wich “ie ° dnd with requests for information ae to
China trade.
“Some of the larger firms are te
intorcing their staffs and are engaged fi
anvass of the possibilities ot
markets, with a view to exploit-
tatl
“The New York reception to the Mar-
quis and Marchioness of Aberdeen w!
de held on Wednesday evening, January
26, at in Carnegie Hall, under the
aueptees of the Civic Forum.
erdeen ‘rill tell of bis remin-
ganized a Chamber of
local one for Shanghai,
, Bivin
ey armen ‘Chamber of Commerce for the whole o:
the social betterment work which she
NEW YORK, JANUARY 29, 1916,
UNITED IRISH-AMERICAN SOCIETIES EXPOSE
PURPOSE OF ABERDEENS’ VISIT.
Snited Irish-American Societtes of New York, at their meeting in the
Irtsh-, vAtericae Athletic Club, 159 East Sixtieth Street, on Friday evening,
January 21, adopted the following resolutions
We, the United Irish-American Socleties of New York, protest against the
attempt of the Anglomaniacs of the Civic Forum to present Lord and Laly
at Carnegie Hall on January 26'to the American people as reliable
or trustworthy authorities on present conditions in Ireland.
They are agents of the British rnment, sent here to do England’s
work of deceiving the people of the United States, so as to obtain American
help for Ei ‘ar and create the false impression that
While Lord and Lady etend
heir mission.
} Ireland’s attitude.
Ireland's real voice is stifled; Nationalist newspapers have bee
many Irishmen thrown into priaon snd others drive
under the Defence of the Realm Act,
gration of men ef military age has ‘young
men have been deprived of their employment for the purpose r foreing them
‘0 join the British army. Under these circumstances, the attempt of Brit:
oicials many yearn have drown of $100,000 a year, taken
from the pockets of the overtaxed and impoverished Trish people is unpar-
al
was sent to Ireland to recoup his bi
during h
of employment of Irish ¢:
rd Haddo, into the presence of pure Irish girls was an insult to Irish
womanhood, and the covering up of the theft of the Crown Jewels in Dublin
astle Wag a public scandal that disgraced the Abi ;
reland several nocen'
lin, & British solaters, and not one of the murderers
‘was ever proment to
The spread of tubereulosts in Ireland 4s a direct result of the poverty,
misery and degradation brought on the people by English rule. “The Govern-
ent which the Aberdeens represented in Ireland has never done anything to
lessen its ravages, and the movement started by Lady Aberdeen, which a
selfish and political object, was financed by Irish and Irish-American money.
The reckless waste of t mey was instanced by her building a. sant:
arium on en improper site at Peamount, where there was no water, and with.
in a few miles of another stitution that was working: weil, but w ot
_under her control.’ And now she comes to America, as. the British Govern-
agent, to lau: her. "orn Inemfien€ work a ciaim credit for services
the sSooe of New York will treat thea two missionaries of
English sham and false pretences with tl re same Indifference and contempt
with which they were treated in the W
THE WAR ON THE HYPHENS, | bert B. Newman, Adolph Hackmeister,
_— e — Swayne, joserh Poeppinghaus, Felix
: . Seffner, — Ho
List of Indicted Persons and Cor-| The steamship Odenwald, libelled
porations Furnished by the under provisions of a joint, resolution
Attorney General. Mareh 4,
WASHINGTON, Jan. 21—A list of] 94 ALLIFS' SHIPS THE
venty-three individuals and four cor-
porations and one steat GERMAN DECEMBER TOLL.
porations and one steamship indicted
under the neutrality laws in connection
‘waa sent to} . BERLIN, Jan. 21—The
Xews Asency to-day gave out one fol
with Buropean war plo
of the House Judiciary
Committee to-day by Attorney General | 10!
Gregory. TI ist was in response te Gon petent German teri state
requests lutions now before the| that during the month of mbel
House Committee seeking details of the | twenty-fow wate mn were
ir ships, ee
one British auxiliary cruiser and
ritish .dransporta, with a total tonnage
f 104,764, were destroyed by the (Teu-
tonic) Allies’ fleet
Reliable Teporle “about ships destroy
ed by mines and collisions are still lack-
charges against
cans made in President, ‘Wilson’s ad-
dress to Congress
‘The corporations listed by the At-
torney General ss indicted are as fol-
I
°C D. Bun! ing, and the real losses therefore are
Rubber mer as tle Agency Com-| Superior. The “otal will not be less
pany, ne vs seney than 130,000 ton
+ Amerikanische
Fant Action Gezellschaft.
and Southern ‘Steamship
Pecket ENGLAND SUPPRESSES
ANOTHER IRISH PAPER,
DUBLIN, Jai Dublin police
have seized a printing plant in the
house a cel ee Markievicz which
ft ts all used to spread the
German, propaganie.
She ts the sister of an Irish baronet
and married to a Polish nobleman.
“The seizure follows the Government's
st
“ndietunt included a
K. Blalr, Frank Rintelen,
‘thomas Addis, Frank Buchanan, Harry
La Robert Fowler, Kenneth
oft, Herman az Senate c. D.
Fence, David Lam: v. Seferovieh,
Henry S. Martin, ovo Matanovitch,
S. Monett, Savo Gjourashkovich, Jacob
ylor, Lub
©; Taylor, P. M. Luburich, Andrew D.| closer supervis lon of certain, small
Meloy. B. Martinovich, Richard P. Steg-| newspapers pamphlets published
, Werner Horn, Vincent Cook, Max] and ireulated ‘througbout the | country
Jaeger, Richard Madden, Edward Web-| discouraging
er, Karl Rurcede, Paul Schmidt, Arthur | with England as “the real enemy."
W. Sachse, Richard Woblberg, August| Several similar raids. were made
R. Meyer, Mrs. Annie Herman | Dublin.
BRITISH GENSORS HIDE
AERIAL WAR LOSSES.
pecial cable despatch to the New
icholz, rson, Paul Daeche, T. vor Sun of last Sunday says:
Johnson, Max Breitung, J. L. Bley, ‘DON, Jan. 21—The Dait:
Saglebert, Bronkhuret, ©.D. Bunker, C.| ara re ps not satisfied with the reply,
©. Cro Phiuip Thayer, R. H.|~ of Harold J. Tennant, Under Sec
8 ane, n Brincken,| retary of State for War, to the
nant’s rep!
plete,’
the fact of the British losing fifteen
aeroplanes in past mont
while there were no corresponding
man casualtie:
“The statement that the Germans
Sigmund Karman, George Koetter, Al-
rts, but are forming one strong com-
pact body.
“It is very necessary that British
merchants should recognize that Amerl- ae their losses,” the Datly aad,
cans have been laying their Bans on “Is unsatisfactory, as the
very broad foundations and with con- “Britny airmen see when they dis-
« ‘Whitman and ‘Siayor John Purroy Mit- or less belpless units for each of the
Entered 08 second-class m
Rew TERE R Yc under tee ct of Gangrene
1. 1999, at the Post Office at
‘of March 2, 187%
PRICE FIVE CENTS.
IRELAND KEY TO FREEDOM OF THE SEAS
Count Reventlow, In Remarkable Document, Skows That England Bas Kept Ireland
Dowa For The Purpose Of Maintaining Her Own Maritime Supremacy—Free
Ireland And The Ocean Will Be Cpen To The Commerce Of The
Worli—He Calls The Country The Gewesis Of British Economic
And Biological Wealth — “ England's Difficulty Is Ireland's
Opportunity” —So Long As Britain Rules The Waves
Humanity Must Remain Her Slave—Plain
Truths Clearly And Ably Stated.
The New York World of Saturday | the victim he had intended to strangle.
last printed an article by Gustav C.| Her-race, her religion, her traditions,
. | her language—Irelani maintained
Roeder giving extracts from a book by! thom all and yet no foreign help bas
Count Reventiow, in which the posl- hers since the days of Napoleon.
tion of Ireland in relation to the war/ Otten has she been deceivi but none
is dealt with remarkable manner. | the fess is her faith today stronger
‘The article is also published. by the than for England's difficulty is
Boston Giore ont probably by other Ireland's opportunity,
papers in va 8 parts o} Jn conclusion the author says:
The article is Srell worth the attention
of Irish ohana ets says:
fice in Berlin is secret-
ten by also suppose that the
nglo-German negotiations in
ntral Africa have been
; brought to a conclusion, & the Germans
had hoped. Would, in tl
order of things
Chatterton-Hill, and according to the
title notice, this work is “printed for
private circulation only.” ts, Her
While in Belin T “ontained a copy of
There
“Germany in fighting for her own ex- nd im
istence is fighting also for t
fon of the world.
eration wiil surely
ense sums
poses would gradually disappear in Ger.
come, sooner or)» ew position of ever-growing
importance occupied by Germany in the
Near East woyld rapidly cause the
tagopism “vedere ars , aud. Russia, “ta
increase. “Britain would often have me
opportunity of employit
checkmate Russia, Instead of having te
intervene directly herself. At the same
lestroyed until | time French issatiefaction with Ger-
many would augmen
mental truth is that Britain's maritime
supremacy cannot
Ireland ‘is a free country.
“So long as Ireland remains a Brit-
teh colony—ot, rather, a British fort-| pard” wectl pe Epi On ibe other
ress—Fritain can at apy time shut off| Britain's friendship, and be fully com
he whole of Northern and Eastern Eu-| yincod of the latter's pacific intentions
rope from all access to the ocean;- ev
. by means of Gibraltar, Port Sai
and Aden, she can-close the Mediter
anean.. Ireland is the key to the Atlan-
tle, Release Ireland from her bondage,
and he Atlantic is at once opened
to
Therefore oust Ireland be restored
to Europe, if E
1e is to be free.
Independent, neutral Irish nation would
be the natural bulwark of European
Uberty' in the West. The freedom of
Europe depends upon’ ine freedom of
the seas; and the eas
depends on the ilberation ot Sreland all she desired, must in return do her
ONCE PROSPEROUS IRELAND DB.| est to show her ‘good will.’
STROYED BY WILL OF BRITAIN. i be at of feverish armaments’
“Wo hear a lot’of Ireland's helpless: | Sandpoint, te becomes eee eis
Hees and poverty. And it is nothin| ‘ evident that
ritain'’s policy of ‘confidential friend-
accumulated by England's
beribes and hirelings. Ireland, the mos'
erttle country in nrOPes
e flourishing industry wi
mel destroyed nj andy
whose civilization reaches back far
yond the Christian era into the dim
twilight of the ages, and whose mission: | ¢ 457
aries carried, during the early Middle
ges, the torch of learning and piety! tne two Central Powers, by threate; oF
All over Western and Central Europe: | e these Powers on: to thelr
‘land, who, een! nv] knees at the point of the bayonet, *
tury alone, while artificially made fam- cesear.
e among dren,
ton ewe throw the whole weight of her influence
policy.
sturdy sons, broken
e2 the wheel of misery, were decoyed
the number of 2,000,000 during the
Nineteenth Century into England's
mercenaries; Ireland
d dine
interestedness of British frieadehin,
“whose ‘The only thing necessary w:
Se] “All these
cal position makes of her. the
Concentrating link tetweon Europe and #6, assassination ef the | Archduke
‘and whose. forty rs te] ropean situation bec sneoreusl
fe ue empty and desolate at England's iy
e
Tiotertoat veut bas formed the basis
on which the whole structure of the
British Pirate Empire has been reared | @22%, and ae
Peaceful.
eee and thet tesonord ‘historical method of ‘Brit.
ral] “In this way does the Jetter coin the
phrases which, once war
to one forgotten Ire
out, shal) serve to justify io British
ted, ico °, ae ah sireaat Ret ears, £0 | Government fnd to infuence the publte
t ghted of ber thinkers and opinion of vay doce thst. Giver,
statesmen “recognize © secret of a
Burope’s future destinies ies embedded roi re “islometl
in the green isle of Er “In this way does it walt ati the
IRELAND 18 erie SUPREME. final’ developrente of the
“The British Butcher bas tried in| gineered by Britain herself, pr due
vein during three centuries to esverse | erect and fecsive
inate her; and yet, just before the war
rman machine and are not
inely to fall to report.”
summate skill and foresight throu =
number of yea
proke out, he was forced to hold out his the war. This tim e phrase
to
ands in a vaip-
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