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A JOURNAL DEVOTED TO THE CAUSE OF IRISH INDEPENDENCE, IRISH LITERATURE AND THE INTERESTS OF THE IRISH RACE,
1 ~ . Oct. 1, 198, at the Post Offer at r
Vol. XIV., No. 40, Whole No, 734, NEW YORK, OCTOBER 6, 1917. Soe OAT Voc tee etek Cone of taares eT PRICE FIVE CENTS.
THOWAS ASHE DONE TO DEATH IN PRIS suBritish | THE ENGLISH PLOT TO MURDER CASEMENT;
R ON Father Vaughan ou British |; 4
Morality and Birth Rate. . . -
Man Who Commanded The Vitrius Rebels At Ashbourne In Easter Week, 1916, (From the Ish Independent, Lord Robert Cecil Coofly Admits In The House Of Commons The Charge Which i
blin, September 13. . a ard f yea
. Dies During A Hanger Strike In Mountjoy Peison, On September 26, And Is ratne eee atts, on Sir Roger Made In Letter To Sir Edward Grey That Findlay, The British“;
. . . vitation of ost a . ssh %
Followed To The Grave By A Funeral Procession More Imposing Than That ee ein tne whos tail na Minister To Norway, Offered A Reward Of £5,000 For The Commission Of *:
loach . . . oe birth-rate, sald t . ‘ cli i .
Of Charies Stewart Parnell—Circumstances Of His Death Point Strongly tisha Germany had e falling bietke A Crime On Neutral Territory—The Northcliffe Propaganda, Aided By
To Feu! Play, As in The Case Of Owen Roe O'Neill, Colonel Ricard O’Sullivan BOO cee eee eran the Creel’s Committee, Now Attacking Irishmen For “Plots” To . Commit
2 . . . . f , f . , toe coh wh, . o they:
Burke And Many Others—Poison A Faverite English Method Of Getting Rid dame period ov 500.000, ame Breaches Of Neutrality, While The English Were Doing It With tmpuaity :
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Of Irish Rebels —Victim Represented Gaclic League With Diarmaid Lynch gout or ones \ Neo Malt. Every Day From The Outbreak Of The War Uatil The United States Entere ’
ible fe :
In This Country A Few Years Ago—Was One Of The Founders Of The a tes ee cer ed The Conflict—Cascment’s Letter A Damaing Arraignment Cf Eagland’s -
Irish Yolanteers—Setenced To Death For The Part He Took ta The Rebellion, gulcketing gone arent pene Criminal Methods —The Original Of Findlay’s Pledge, Written With His Owa -“
2 4 * . ., fT it!
~ . ’ Reprieved And Later Released, Ue Was Imprisoned Again On The Testimony three and four si Soe Hand On The Official Paper Of The British Legation In Christiania, Is Stil
Of Gamsy Pole Note Takers —Died A Martyr For Ireland. - Preserved As Proof Of His Crime—A Record Of CUnscrupulousness, 5
The following cable “aenpatens was pub-, McKenna, « hospital surgeon, ir gland was violating the raed ome is on in existence and -avaiiitte.
lished in the New York: evening papers ‘eatiied that Ashe told him after he dren niust be rewarded. ot ae United States every day fro1 . abe
last Monday: had been-fed forcibly on Tuesday that the breaking out of the European war vowel ADMITS THE CRIME, . "i
DUBLIN, October 1 (by A. P.).—Thé she had collapsed from a fit of cough- — to the day when the Congress of the| Sir Roger Casement made thi cha:ze
funeral procession "yesterday which fol-| ing.” u a in a@ letter to Sir Edward Grey, then!
. lowed the body of Thomas Ashe, the} The doctor's , statement about IRELAND'S TAXATION United States declared war on Germany. Brita Foreign Secretary, who’ trom:
Sinn Fein leader, who-died on Wednes-| “sudden shock or prolonged struggle” is COULD AMPLY PAY HER WAY The British Propsganda, the most ex- t day to this has remained aflentl
day, from the City Hall to Glasnevin | very significs The forcible feeding, tensive and most*highly financed in the petisn newspapers denied the truth of}
Cemetery was extremely large, exceed-| according to Dr. McKenna, occurred on Professor Eoin MacNeill, addressing | whole world, is now devoting its‘ener | the charge, but no British statesmany
ing in numbers even that of the Parnell | Tuesday; the death took place on Wed- a big Sinn Fein demonstration in Glen | &1¢s to proving that Irishmen in Amer-| ever ventured to do so. They kept sik:
tuneral it ‘he procession was|nesday, and Professor McWeeney says iM id alt ica were guilty of violating American | ence until long after Sir Roger Cases
wall organized and perfect order was| there was “abundant: food fn to tley County poner recent es said al neutrality, an rge Creel’s Commit- was dead, bit now the ‘Brttlstey
mach,” showing that the Allied Gove a jared be- blic Information has com Government thinks there is nm hen:
whe principal contingents were Irish digested Me ‘The “sudden shock” coi ad Met in the vient of emall nations to Lert” Nerthelifi's aid by pablishing reason for concealing the truth and ad!
Volunteers, the Gaelic Athletic Associa-| be causes gas, and gas leaves no government according to their own enteen months’ old “revela-| mits the fact. The admission was mate,
tion, the Gaelic League, the Liberty Hall traces behind it, The present war hi Ideas, even, as President Wilson stated, tone" whieh, if true, would only p Prove | officially in the se of Commons ty!
Citizen Army, and the Dublin Trades/made the English very fomiliar with hose which hed for s thme held | that Irishmen sought from ‘Germany,|Lord Robert Cocil, Under Secretary for’ ~
‘There were also many repre-| 28, and in the loneliness of a prison fhos been while America was still neu the| Foreign Affairs, in answer to > qonsEAay
sentatives from women’s clubs. More | Cell it would be very easy to administer in subjection, and Irishmen wanted an} game kind of help for. Ireland which | from an _Eoslis Liberal Mi
tha: dozen bands played patriot {t without detection and delay the “dis- Independent Ire! nted the| their . fathers obta: from . Spain,| report printed ip the Datta Promnaa
airs. three-mile route was lined | fovery” 0 one , rae a unity of all Irishmen and the Irish peo- eran ste. Batavlen Repub and the | of June. 13 is as follow:
with spectators, and e bells of the| traces ol e “prolonged struggi nit the H
Eatholteeburches were tolled aa the pro-| would be explained by tho prisoner's re Ho had ng, desire to establish: the ee'| "Mr. Creels “ovelatione” fo fiat. Eine Member fer of Commooe Be 2,
cession ‘moved along. The Irish Volun-| sista teal v! cendancy of any party. He was pleased|mneir purpose of land to be Und ‘for’
teers wore the: ir vuniforms 2nd carried| POISONED OWEN ROE O'NEILL. to see so many young men there because | crush the struggle ‘tor berty in Ire Sore elgn Affal vhether ts ettentton,
hurley ‘sticks, although these were of- ‘there is nothing at all refnconelstent the future "was’ wi em. If 9] land was appal to every intelligent |p had been called to the we La
fences against recent military regula-|with English methods in Ireland in were any em who believed in Mr./man and, in spite of th fave been written by Mr. do C. Find,
tions, There was also a firing party at| theory, and is evadentie Suton Redmond they should not be there but)/efforte of the pro-Br! rs ‘to i British Minister to ‘Norway, offer.’
the grave-side, suspteton in Ireiand that Ashe’s death fighting Great Britain's enemtes. foment ant!-Irish fecling, the “revela. the British Govern-,
e Government authorittes did not] was due to some and of foul play. That THOMAS ASH®, tn Ancient Irish Costume. ey 'e told that ireland ‘was | tions’ impression on the me to Adler Christensen for-the cap.’
taterfere with the demonstration, whteb | sticks out plainly even {n the censored = poverty stricken and unable t age Pulte. : ture of Sir “Roger and
wa: i ive. mbittered | cable despatches. The Irish people have r {te own affairs irs, but they were paving While the English propaganda is Dose whether, seeing that facsimile copies of
feeling over the death of Ashe was much |gmple grounds for ing murder, EVIDENCE OF DISCRIMIN ATION IN THE RED £24,000,000 in taxation; this year it attacking ‘Iriatinen for ebreaches that letter bed been circulated, he
allayed by a change in the policy « ot the|1t was the commonest kind of thing in would be £30;000,000, end two-thirds| neutrality,” tt is well to recall that Eos would say whether Adler Christensen
treatment’ of prisoners under De-| the days of. Elizabeth and Cromwell to| .° cwent to carrying war. That bur-| lend was guilty, during the time men-|*°O"5 007 “oe subject, and /
fence of the Realm Act ‘Tho priconers| acess ie of an I CROSS AG AINS WOM AN OF IRISH. BLOOD den-under present conditions would] tioned and I tor @ considerate time be |, 8 2" the promised revard hod eet
re now allowed to associate together offering money to one of his retainers hp irhrnenretal S ~ : "| Bave te ° to be borne ja suture years. Ten —_— fons preach venues duly paid?
dare separat from , the Inary| or. servants. .There are several wel 7 2 - * or twelve millions woul - feutral’ coun: e
criminals. They are also allowed to 7¢-| authenticated, cases. The most notable tet up a proper system of national gov-| could get eway ‘with it. Her Minister ene t Robert 7 Geatbe “onewe we
~ cotve food from the. outside. "The hun-|{s that of Owen Roe O'Neill, the great ernment. Norway plotted to kid ur | Oitemetive Tadiee kta
. ger was abandoned when the! soldier who defended Arras for Miss Taba 1 Donovan Rossa Is Excluded From Service in<a re ler Sir Roger Casement in Norway, and] ATtmative, | Adler msen | was
~ Lora Mayor carried this decision of the Spaniards, against Henry the Fourth, of the American Red Cross Which Was to Go Abroad, | LLOYD GEGRGE AND SINN FENN. Cea rower lett Norway tor ae ene tates ‘ot ¢ ute arrest
Government. to. the prisoners. Conde and Turenne, th “scteted * Gon for Which Work She had Diligently Fitted Herself—Her De- ———— e could be captured, tn violation of | 12¥olved no question of @ reward, and!
DONE sd (Pate IN PRISON. .| spiendidly disciplined Scotchmen, under mand for an Explanation of Such utrageous Procedure Is” (From John Bull.) Danish neutrality, and brought on | {he answer to the Jest part of the ques
wsimanded the|Sunro, @ moat capable soldier, st Den- Met With Evasion and Hypocrisy—Sho Points to the Sacri-- saibere fe & renewed demand in cer seed & coin. the 20,28 BI “the Sect wnat ots ore Se ten:
ect paty ‘niet who, during the barb, wth 7,000 ouistermeD, ond wing fices Made by Her Relatives i in Pofending American Indepen- ‘Apart from the erime of disturbing the | iste “No ofered a. row. of | Lord Robert Cecil answers In thoedirm,
ee ee eerone na County|Ceommeat in'baitla, “They pat polos in dence and Resents Action Obviously Taken Against Her Be- | puvite mina with political tssues at this [£5000 928000 000) "to. a Nore ative, was, did Findlay offer a reward‘
Meath, and. then defeated and made "he died at Clough cause of a Father's Work for Ireland by Resigning From | mosient, Mr. Lloyd Geor F ties | Saree Aor the ota of the Job, put his | ler Chelatencen Te ro at!
Prisoners ‘ot a force of constabulary |Ovghter upon St. Leonard's Day.” thos the Red Cro Seo ee tie et sanae cya these | otter tn writ Seg Or re Fagen Cece be Sentare of;
four times their number which had beon| blasting Ireland’s \ | fourths of the Nationaltst vote in lence of his gullt, written by his o sone : 4
tas reinforcements, died In Mount-|4TTeMPTED 70. ‘Poisow CoLoNmE House—which 1s what Sinn Fein means, | hand on the official payer of the Lega-| Cecil's answer fal admisston'
foy Prison, Dublin, on Wednesday, Sep- * ‘That there is discrimination against surely make an unofficial recommenda- by the British Government that ft plot
. ” - tion which ould undoubtedly command ~ te crime in @ neutral country and,
er 26, under circumstances which] 1 1869 they poke ted to murder | te Irish, or against Irish Nationalists, ly r and;
“Point plainly to deliberate, r, Colonel Ricard’ O'Sullivan Burke by alin the American Red Cr roved cud they the thee y ia one probed with REWARD FOR THE CAPTURE OF CASEMENT. who wet wane Seo move sold Moors
she was sentenced to death for his |slow and insidious poison, but they fall | the correspondence between Miss Isabel | Out giving the matter ‘consider TC : ed confession of wron g has ever
part in the Reteltion, but the sentence| oq owing to the skiil and forethogsht of/ O'Donovan Rossa and the heads of the|tion—an act of injusi tice that 1s insult. Brittsh Legation, : { |been made by a Government tn allio
was commute in the fn e man whose life they Sus-| orgi jantaation which 1s herewith publish- ing to millions of Irish. citizens and : * . tory, And Government which .ed~'
athers, to imprisonment for Ife, atter| ecting thelr purpose, he vor ted some ed._ It fs all the worse because of the| must © to all fair-minded Christtenta, mits fta own crime ts now
the indignant protests from the whole] or the suf, gave {t to the priest who evaeton of the real issue which char Americai ‘Donovan Rossi oe attacking Irishmen for “plotting*’
cfvilized world against the summert|was chaplain, and an analysis by a|actertzes tho replies to Miss O'Donovan |the only thing that her self-respect Ge orway. breaches of: Ai eutrality.
execution of fifteen of the leaders ang [chemist outside, who had not been told Rrovea's prot inst her exclusion, ed in resigning from the Red Cross , “Aneuican roprinta-below:
the deliberate murder. of ncis | where it came, from, revealed the pres: after ie hea been eclded to. exclude hor work. If she is not though fit to serve the full text of 5 Sir Ros P a
ShechySkefington ” had shocked the) once of the potson. was made to make it] in , Why should she consent to . letter to Sir Edward Grey, tn whieh he
E Government ost or the ote ad Colonel | appear "that she had 1 requested to be x serv merica and remain under a ~~ AL , made th Seen «
lust. He was released ee tne Core] Burke? They hated him bitterly, and|cluded, or iad consented to her exclu-| cloud of unjust suspicion? Tee BALA facsimile of Minister Findlay’s offer oft
convicted men, last June, ‘vg tm. {this hatred was reveale evidence | sion— jd be tantamout to an| Following 1s the correspondence, Cu behely
time ago was sentenced to @ year’s Lm-| Its St i en ne utd ahe| adniaston Chet her loyalty to the United | which speaks for itself:
ent for a speech made in the . k . They will show that England respects
pris eported| Poisoning, in his evidence before a|States, the country in which she was —— Peat” 4 no law can tm
County Longford, which was rep’ Royal Commission which was ‘published | born, was open to question. Cexmeat Crus ror .Nuzers WA
by policemen from memoi tthe a Bine y Miss O'Donovan Rossa {s as loyal to ane doth Sts . 1 prremee Punlty and stops at no crime: tosiccom~
courtmertial trial the polfcemen admit.) vin but on the evidence they coutd only | tho United States and an ready to serve New York Olty, N.Y plish her ends,
ted that they had only written sentence him to fifteen years’ pen: her country as any of the women who gust 9, 1917. Following Ys the c:
notes on the morning after the mecting:| ir Gon store they tried to Kill him {have decided thet she cannot be trust-| iss Jane Delano, wealirn we Roger Casement's I tert i Se
Many of the sentences they attributed | tie. ae eae ae who|ed to nurse American wounded sol- Chatrman Natfonal “Red Cross Com- Hore tn aoeer Ce 8 letter to Sir Edward;
. Ashe were so absurdly clumsy that) a1, tne work would write the death cer-|dfers in France, mption 1s 7G Groy, which was sent him by registered.
no eduicated man could have used them,| tid the ullarly Smpudent and inaulting. It wee aston, D, I pa hog . m The
but on this filmsy evidence the “officers CASEMENT AND ASHE. fa insulting to the whole Irish race and Dear Naam: 7 DG Adin. Crialomor 2. . BERLIN, ist February, 1916.
and gentlemen” of the courtmarta! fim| ‘That was in 1869, resented by them. Their action | “yrs, Humphrey, of Fordham Hospital tad | sir tom,
Wieted the prisoner and sentenced "| iater Findlay. the British Minister fo 18 an exhibition of pro-English bias that | uait Ty advieed. ju in re- bes ten pac Ta the “Rouse of Lari
to aneinrr at the recently, a| Norway, offered £5, for the|!s diseraceful. Miss O'Donovan Roses! card to tho question that hes been Satantty et of the pension I vol-
num f the recently convicte * 1 is @ competent trained nurse, but her untarily ceased to draw when © t
tone capture in neutral tert of Sir a raised concerning my loyalty to the
pritonors, cluding Aste, went o h| Roger Casement, so that he could be father was an Irish Nationalist who| United States of Amer icarn what might be the Intentions,
. ger strike, protest against ha eto death on title eons The tried during his whole Hfe to over-| yoy be glad to h of the ‘an Government in -regard-to.
and cruel treatment, and the cable re- pat ts ‘of the re : ting, throw English rule in Irelan That, in a would t gi ‘ ave re the Red Cross Irelas
— ports which reached America on ee eaty | Sut in conversation Findlay suggested | the opinion m of the women who manage any ect of mine thet Nie eee Bent Tn the course of that dtecussion a I:
following bis death al i the American Red crime understand Lora Crewe observ
1 ed of starvation. The evidence taken {hat the. eee ovat would: ceage which ought vo bar mee Taught, born body S question my loyalty to the.coun- “Sir Roger Cusoment’s action oa tn oat
| before the Coroner's Jury, however, as tet y in the United States, from the privilege | fet oe ‘0. the country a sensible punishm
‘fated this claim and showed that there jon. serving her country In war In a{that offered a shel Iter hs my exiled wate thy as to
4 f food in the stomach, 'y hated Tom. Ashe as thoy ter which her training ats her {father and thousands and thousands of my
L Teee Fe roretble feeding. As forctble| Ric. nearke Ashe had inflicted vate sean which the ardently: desires et, other Irishmen who were driven from ects on ana your Py Publicly suggested puns
& a mnt 0) discussing
the | tion upon defeating a very thelr own land by tho British Govern. propose
43 ing is only resorted to when Th ston {s not alone unjust and now, since the final ft of
| prisoner om hunger strike 1 reduced a ee anat force ot constabulary. and inexcusable, but it is inexpressibly fon ‘onghend Res By anertted, hatred actual punishment you sourht ta acne”
almost to the last extremity, a ean. to infect upon
thet een © Enaition waa’ very low|three Irish Volunteers—thirty-two from mets O'Donovan Rossa appeaiea to| Person think that I am so antl-English Poca pon me Js, at length, in my.
1d into him. ‘ingall and eleven from Dublin, who that I. mu ® proGerman. I love
‘when the food was forced int few rift some shot.|Presitent Wilson ggainst the unjust and le I was aw: t t
i ‘VIDENCE. bad only a few rifles tnsulting decisfon. The President. ay rica as much as I hate England and are of your inten.
DOCTOR'S SIGNIFICANT E ; ted to shoot him, but |!sulting, decisfon. | Th ident ap. | aie tat V bed piven hay ees ad tions trom the first day I set foot tn
On this subject a cable despatch says: | 0" ciacride protest frightened the peare ‘of War Baker, who tn turn {10% : jorway three months ago; but it has~
j “At the inquest Thursday into the) voitcal leaders an were obliged | Herretary af Wy | Rossa, in a{Country to setve wherever I was most taken time to compel your agent
4 leath of Ashe, Professor McWeeney ee to stay the hands of the military en tory communication, that the needed. My offer for foretgn service to furnish the Seritten Proof of the con-
: titled that. the post. jortem exam butchers. By getting Ashe into their| "ter is entirely in the hands of the made because I felt that, having no spiracy then set on foot against me by
| tion, at which severat other doctors clutches again they were placed in a| ot ne chabe It te, but does the ome ties, I could be better spared than His Nasestre Government.
| wore present, showed that Ashe did not) -osition to work thelr will on him, end | Cor rmwent -oriean peonte [others who had parents to consider, T Let me first briefly define my action
i au of hunger. The body was not veo ot | if a the circumstances of his|1—cacrstand that if ti Cross | bave gone to great expense to hold my- peters SPreeetiog to contrast it with
: “and there was an hind sat, | (2X rarrant & suspicion that wil | vo its an act of manifest Injustice |Slf In readiness for foreign service and #| Fou
fl food in the stomach. Death, ty from onty be allayed by # thorough public tn-| 11 Os ts no redress and no app m |I feel that a full explanation is due me he estion between the British
to syncope, arising part Yon vestigation. ite deciston?. If that is the “conattion of for the slur cast upon me. Government and myself has never be
heart trouble and partly trot ors heart, | ASHE HAD STIRRIN N@ CAREER. |atatrs thore is surely “ g rot-| May I give you a little bit of our fam- a6 you are fully aware, a mattor of &
* congestion of the | ings and he would | - Thom: was born in Dingle,/ten in the stata mart If the | ily history in connection with our loyal- Peston ‘ard, a decoration.
© added, was ae any sudden shock Prestdent or the Secretary of War sal I British Government
be apt to
ar prolonged struggle.
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“Bot technically interfere ey
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teeny and orally a long as
as it was
le for me to-do v0, and: when it