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A JOURNAL DEVOTED TO THE CAUSE OF IRISH INDEPENDENCE, IRISH LITERATURE AND THE INTERESTS OF. THE IRISH RACE,
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Vol. XII, No, 18. Whole No. 659, ‘ NEW YORK, APRIL 29, 1916. Fe LSAR MASE denen Pts et PRICE FIVE CENTS. ‘col
IRELAND, IN ARMS, FIGHTING FOR FREEDOM | ae
GREAT STATE CONVENTION HELD IN BOSTON fy
Oa the Anniversary of the Battle of Clontarf, the Irish Volunteers, Henaced With Dis-
armament and Disruption, Strike Hard Against the English Garrison---Battle Rages
in the Streets of Dublin For Several Days and Telegraphic and Cable Communica:
tion Cut Off---German Ship Loaded With Arms and: Ammunition, On Information
. Treacherously Sent From Washington, Senk by the British Fleet and Sir. Roger
Casement Captured---England Trying Desperately to Hide or Misrepresent the Nean-
ing cf the News, But the Truth is Steadily Leaking Out---No Matter What the Im-
mediate Outcome May be, the Revolt Must Exercise an Important Influence on the
Result ‘of the War---Ireland Puts.in Her Claim For Recognition at the Peace
Finest Irish Gathering Ever Assembled In The Bay State Mects In Fancuil Hall, The
“Cradic Of Literty” To Effect A State Organization Of Friends Of Irish Freee
dom—Fifteen Hundred Delegates Present And Two Thousand Sympa-
thizers Turned Away For Lack Cf Room—Supseme Court Judges
Goff And Cobalaa And Many Oiber Distinguished New
Address The Mecting—Demand Sent To President Wil-
soa To Keep Out Of The European War—tre-
land At The Congress Of The Nations.
BOSTON, April 21—The most re-| tional Land League held in the samt
markable and significant Irish gather-| hall Pe wee onvention rere
a 7 sented the whole country, but yester-
ng ever held in bistoric old Faneuil | tone convention represented only the
Hall asrembled there yesterday. Jt *a8| state of Massachusetts, and it spoke for
5 mvention of the Friends of | the Irishmen of this State with no un-
ish Freedom, the new organization | certain sound.
started by the Convention of the Irish] “The Convention held two sessions,
: Conference THE O'RAHILLY, Race, eld at the Hotel Astor, New| one in the morning and the other in
ta ch Voluntes: ork, On March 4 and 6 last, 8] the afternoon and evening. The Con-
. . 2 ‘Treasurer of the Trish Volunteers. called for the purpose of organizing the | vention was called to order by Dr. John
. oo C brother of the Mayor. John
Ireland is fighting gallantly for her the United Press sent it’out, though it) New York was' the garbled English ac: Every corner of the old Bay State was | 7
* a is C: - E . Kell: f Pittsfleld
Independence. ‘That 1s the fact that| was not printed until: Tuesday. after-| count of the sinking of a German aust That, vorwel had got wore the Irax-| represented. The hall accommodated | Chairmen, and oxCongremman took
stands out clearly in the garbled and | no ary cruiser loaded with arms and mu-| ¢¥¢d and “invincible” British: fleet al
censored cable despatches which have] Several minutes’ before a cable flash | nitions -of war “off the const of’ Ire-| the way from Germany through the acity wit!
becn, coming, by a roundabout route | from London last~night brought first| land” and the capture of ‘Sir, Roger | North Sea into the Atlantie Ocean and iron men and women from Boston and] comed the delegates in the name of the
ng 3 . .
last... And not one ine would have | — ——
TELEGRAM TO PRESIDENT
WILSON,
In starting with his opening speech
Friends of Irish
an effort to get the news. It has been
coming in diiblete ever sin . quest the President of the United States
ceeding despatch proving conclusively to preserve the peace of tl Dic;
that all the previous one end it n0 forces or agencies to drive
ed to hide the truth and .minimize the,
extent of the revolt. or against any of the European beiliger-
ipher--cable, which was. sent ents, and to look to Washington for
fdance. We protest against any ac-
from a’ point in Kerry, naturally could
only say riety that the first blow had} ~;
‘oved. k duceeautal, .
Dre
tion that will divide our people and fm-
Perit the pence and integrity of the .
country. me
Before Dr, Kelly could proceed any
further Mayor Curley entered the
and was sven an ovation which Tasted
The ostriches of, the New
three mini
OR. KELLY CALLS ENGLAND
Taughing stock g When the cheering had subsided Dr. %
4A FORMIDABLE REVOLT, Kelly eatd in ‘
“Today is the anniversary of the bat: ‘
seThe, military situation in ee a tle of Lexington. A more significant J}
be com ing eal ee vee and auspicious day could not have becn .
tempt to wrec “ ee irsion train” one one serious enemy hat ‘enemy, inet ‘ /
near Maryborough in the Queen’s Coun- erate and malignan’ In peace and |
ir m
which arose on the ruins of her domin-
“Today her hatred and contempt for
‘us are as active as ever, and, in spite
of her need of our frlendship, or, at
least, of our neutrality, ire scarce.
ly ise uised. Whi fe professing to make
her armed enemies, she has
struck at the neutrals, and especially at
us. She has trampled on international
law.
robbed our mails, stopped
our vessels and taken from them pas-
W OF O'CONNELL STREET, “puBLts.
@ fight was “resumed. ef Seo | Severe fighting has occurred at this point. The first building on the left is at the entrance to Bachelor's Walk, where on July 25, 1914, British soldiers | sengers-protected by our flag. Her at-
retary Birrell was quoted as admitting filed and wounded a number of men, women, and children, The cross indicates the General Post Office, which was selzed by the Irish forces. titude is that of a pirate. Although ft i
Inthe’ House of Commons that the fs well within our power by peaceful
rioters” were In possession of “four > methods to put an end once and forever {
or five important ‘points in Duplin” and} | 1 or ine capture of Sir Roger Case-| Casement and others not named, who] Would surely have reached Ireland ex-) vicinity, who rere in full a cermpathy to these outrages, our Government has : |
one of the despatches described these} —° 1 “ine wnited: Press received the| were’said to be on board. Sir Roger| cept for England's’ faithful servants in| with the objects of the ‘been content with the mildest protests,
Dotnts as “the principal parts of the| ere soe anonymous communication: "| ought not to have been on board. He was| the Washington Government: These | anxious to witness the proceedings, hind | which have been treated with charactor 3|
city.” And ai nother correspondent said | message has been received | taking a needless risk, He is not a| men, whose fathers did their utmost to] to be turned away because there was | istic insolence by England.”
that Birrell was “again” cut off from). “2 tain Irishman’ livi New| military man and his proper place break up the Union, with jand’s| no room for them, The nearest ap- — ‘
telegraphic Communication with Tre) ork City informing him that a revo-| in Berlin to take care of Irish {nter-| help, while Irishmen and Germans were | proach to the gathering tn point of num- O'CONKELL'S FINE ADDRESS. i
land at 7 o'clock on Monday evening] 11:0. has broken out in Ireland, and | ests there. But he was probably weary | fighting to preserve the Republic, were | bers and importance to the Irish peo- a
_and that all telegraphic communication | 11", Considerable measure of success | of the world wide scatrilous abuse| paying a debt to England and “getting | ple was the Convention of the Trish , 4
with the rest of Ireland had been in} )°' & UO’ been accomplished. The| heaped on him by ir Fr Congressman O'Connell on tf
Insurgent hands for at least a whole| HOF Sens S a in| renegades and pafd agents of Pngland assuming the permanent chairmanship, “|
¥, of course, used tt to good | 18 16 disarm the Irish’ Volunteers | in the’ American press, and resolved to hado delivered = wienatd address, which de- t
tne tk a aewe that i Pare ealtors and to arrest thelr loaders. The scar-| take his Hfe in his hand. ve thts information trom Washington, fated among vine trie ote axe yo
ing this news that the . ws from London makes vq.| obtained by a gross breach o! Tha 8) +
said that no coi cablegram to the ay ee ee She insurgents have | 2482 TREACHERY IN WASHING] tionat law and by trampling on Ameri. IRISH MEN AND where. It will be only posstble kere to _
United’ States was possible. sroed come success which the Cen- Lcan law,-which deprived the Irish: peo- sive tt in part. His opening remarks he
As this is being Teritten the nows fe | achieves some oceal.” Even the proBritish New York pa-| pie of the arms necessary to carry on 0 as follows; -
still coming piecemeal, with the ad- | 50r wants: to exact translation | PETS adm e have not yet fot! the fight for their very existence as a WOMEN me ice appr augury thet the Friends -
‘mission thet the revolt is of a t} That an eet ihe ee the ‘enol, “one te that event yet. The| people. And the Irish in America will . of Irtsh Freedom should meet on Pa- =
Serfous character, but with the usual | of the cipher, but it contained the s bled | ReFF¥ police, according to a cable to! put the diserace of it on Woodrow Wil- — trot Day in Panel Hall, the “Cradle tat
smug English statement that “the Gov-| 5 fe morning roe e drdie of | S8turday's New York Sun, had captur-| son as long as he lives and for genera- uur brothers in the ova Lana |] | f Zberty.” hattow:
; @mment has the situation: well under and twisted and tried to make ‘ceed | C4 & “collapsible” boat loaded with arms) tions after be is dead, and take care|4/ peve rime asthe American ne, |p| 222 sitovta of those who biased the way
conti s Gariic Amenrcax | it, but it woke them up an n id to | St Curtahane Strand jn Tralee Bay.o2/ that the facts are made known to the triots rose and a fat the same for Amer! From this plat- Dae
goes to pi “Wednesday it will only | them after the news: That ee a. | Friday: night and had arrested a man| fair-minded, generous and liberty-lov- f aga form Wendell Phillips and Willlam wos
te eaiblo te ive the news reaching | get, mainly because ‘all telegraphic com-| oF unknown nationality.”. That was! ing Amertcan people. son aroused the American
Fossiblo to give the news Tap to| munication with the cable stations in| wanitegtly a ship's boat, aa there are The longexpected | opportun~ if] Deopte to free a race that had been in
me Now ork evening rrycone on Volencie Telaad and two no such ports around that part of Ire | SWIFT S7ROKP OF THE -VOLUN-|}j ity hee asrived dnd they Dove |j| starery im oar midst as a relic of Brit.
a cerno ‘oon. RAM. tn Ballinskelligs Bay—had been cut off.| 10,4. The British. Government had : TEE, determined to seize it, Let us ish Colonial misrule. It is most be _
THE CIPHER cABere There are nine cables running from lre-| seen forewarned by an act of the basest| The substance of te news that has|{| Télly to their eupport. ” coming that we American citizens
e sequense nts up to thet) tong and five from other points. The} treachery nor by the Wash-| Teached America, every cablogram cor- should gather on this date for the pur
time is this: The wcpher cablegram | ony other one controlléd by England) sein Administration, which will go! Tecting the previous ¢ one, fs that, skil- AM. MEETING will: be pose of announcing to
Which. came to its first recipient VeTY| starts from Penzance in Cornwall, the} aoun jn history coupled with the name! fully and stlently, on Saturday night held at the COHAN THEATRE, ropean Governments thi
early on, Sunday morning and W8S/ orhors from the Continent. The French | 4¢ woodrow Wilson and making his|or Sunday, the. Irish Volunteers way campaign has this da:
dated Saturday night, stated that the | cabje is in very bad order, so that when | | ory infamous, so there was a sharp| and the Citizen Army of Dublin Street, New City, -om ed to foster, promote,
Tevolt had started successfully, that] the- Kerry stations were’ cut Of the | ooo stor the German ship. The| moved to their appointed places with SUNDAY, APRIL 30, 1916, at complete freedom of Ireland, and to re-
day, It came to an Irishman and th® | other lines are slutted: : Besides thats} peitigh report: says she was accompan-| Olt arousing the faintest, suspicion on 8 POM, . :
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Germans knew nothing whatever about | Foeiand had no news becauso Ireland | s04 yy g submarine and was stink, so| the part of Dublin Castle or Military |) . - independence to which her nationality
i. “The Jrishman waited a day for de-| ya ct oft, bath by telegraph and tele- there was evidently a fight, in which| Headquarters atthe Royal Hospital,|l) . Bring: your friends. No -ad- entitles her, ;
Yelopments and, finding nothing in| pion, he submarine must have played a part.| Kilmainham, seized certain positions | mission fee, No reserved seats. “Massachusetts has always led the }
Monday's papers, an anonymous com- SINEING OF THE GERMAN SHIP. She probably sank an English ship, or . . ver se fae ve !< |v way in the Bent for human righte and x!
munication was sent to the daily papers first serious news that reached . two before the German ‘vessel was sunk. (Continued on Page 5.) . 2 has ever been
and the news agencies, Here is how fhe ‘ 1 :