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>tralla, in its issue of Febru
severep TO THE CAUSE’ OF
IRISH INDEPENDENCE,
IRISH LITERATURE”
and thc Interests of the
JRISH RACE
Whoje No. 1020.
Published Weekly at
Subscription, 1 year, $2.50;
DE VALERA'S DOCUMENT
|S ENDORSED BY MANNIX
Vel. XX. No. 13.
~ Archbishop of Melbourne Comes Aut Flat-Footed For
Proposal Which Would Leave England in Full Mili<
tary Supremacy in Ireland, and Guarantee Annual
Tribute to King George----Approves by Inference!
De Valera’s Campaign of Terror in Ireland.
AN ARDENT IMPERIALIST POSING AS SEPARATIST :
De Valera, Right or Wrong, Was Attitude He Assumed}
When He Passed Through America on Secret
Mission — Bitterly -Resented Fair Criticism of
Cuban Proposal and Viciously Assailed Life-Long
Republicans Who Were Not Taken in by Scheme
To Lower Their Flag.
{
hollc Press of Sydney, Aus-| promise or war to the death with Eng-
‘b-| land while he was spending in America
in efforts to destroy the only real. Re-
| publican organizations. and to replace
-|them by Fake Republican ones the
money given-to him by genuine Repub-
Mcans that would have sopplied the
Irish Republican Army with the arms
and ammunition, eithout which it
could not possibly continue the
struggle.
Tre Gariic Asraicax, by reprinting
from Australian Catholic papers the ex-
/eellent: speeches on
which Arthbishop Maifoix had
lous to his visit Here, had made
De| him known to Irishmen in America, as
& good Nationalist, while the Irish
Worlé andthe other. spe Valera, organs
had “ignored but the editor at
Tur Game Awenrcax fe not. fit to ait
Mend an, egltsh thetstlenia ene
The
bot » Demiaton Home Rulers, posing as
Separatists.
ctorate over
Ireland and “an Pesan Monrde Doo
vogrees nd will fave. her powdrless ‘
iva trine for the two neighboring iMands.”
_delend herselt in case of Engtish Inter-
i yention for which De Yalera is now|And the man who
He said bitter| thse things is now the leader of the Tomes. Amops her offerings will be} LONDON, March 25.—Owfag to ind
—needtees!y on ™. . as Sorpow Thy Days| cations that De Yatera and hie Yollow.
“ieee of men he did not know for maS| eraded,” “The Coulin.” and “Emer
wh hauling d the Re . © Coullin,” an ere ms are in receptive attitude, x
‘acti ch be hed 10 opposed hauling down tepul _ me
“an enemy of the Irish |#rewell to Cucullain. hoped that Archblebop Harty's ‘ror
and a “traitor to Ireland.”| ; Mt: McLoughlin and bis committee tr pesce in Ireland may bear frult at
ert
Troy the orale ot sham and ue tony,
tences
so rampant
But n “ie a “leant timely at “arch,
bishop “Mannix comes out openly for
Document No. 2, which would leave
. abowe England in complete control of the
eftice and unvwiling to Naten to the oes and ports of Treland. the sob
ine cables and alr
tose acknowledge the *pritieh Kine ae as.
Monarch of Ireland, and have Ifelend
contribute to his Royal Stipend.
THE SPERCH oF ARCHBISHOP
other side
mais, among other things, to &
geeminent Irish-American: “If John
of me what he sald of
root with him.” What John Perey
jbedJeaid up to that time of De-Valera| Following a the ‘ctitreas of Arch-
bishop Manoir, as published in the
Sydney Cathoi
Mc Preat
\ “I could scarcely im i reer aed
the concert that, though I was
as null” ina tontnentiy
ae
clined to believe that thelr sympath!
ry in more abundant
Now, y
any ne-| may have noticed that for some time
out to no coun!
Weeder. to make which would give the) measure than to. ‘Trelan
Eeglish ao great advantage in
js best to hot one’s peace.
* earlous. light on the shnreiter of the | tunately, there has been, for some
Archbistop’s mind ai js ideas ot months past, The occasion tor me, or
limita of public tecussion, of public tor ay friend of Ireland, to speak of
= om <affairs with pleasure or profit,
inster Gazette interview otters indeed. have not been as retl-
as jous; they have rushed
Oni
Wille, ce S{renbtsbip was pasil t!
United ‘States priests in) ~~
owing to British press
so said, but apparently no‘man
“bet De Valera oa any right to
Seumine. st be De Valera’s com.
al ferences. But,
(Continued on Page 2.)
ST PTS TT rye . ‘
13, Will Willis
evente in Ireland bee
Proposed both of | 27
"| will also contribute to the enjoyment
0.
*7°! unturned
im St. N.Y.
reign.) $y Postage free.
‘CLANS WILL HONOR
MARTYRS OF 1916
Rational President of the
F.0.1. F. Will Speak
Here Sunday
NEW YORK, MARCH 31, 1923.
Seventh Annial al Anniversary
Celebration of the Ri
Hotel Astor on Sunday Night
—leading Singers and Famous|-
> Harpist Engaged; for Occasion
‘ated Oratora to’ Speak.
Surpassing all previous efforts, the,
Clan-na-Gael of New York, ably assist-
ed by Cum a mBan, Inc., has made
lavish preparations tor the Seven
nual
Sanaey night next, starting at 8
‘clock.
"The orator of the evening will be
Hon. Thomas F. Cooney, of Providence,
R. 1, National Resident ot the Friends
of Irish Freed akers
will be Supreme our ustice Dantel
F. Cohalan, and John
Mr. Richard F. Dalton, ihe | Chairman,
will be Introduced by Mr., John J.
Sheahast who has been most active in
of arranging the meeting | ”
ned who avows his intention of sesing
Able.
THOMAS F. COONEY.
2
BOFIN, TERRORIST
~ LEADER, ARRESTED
that ‘tt Js opened on
6 ausical Progrimie Is one othe Captured by “Free "State “Troops
most Stractt r Sent to Rout Out Leitrim Nost
to ra New werk sstiace tr long timé, Announcement of Progress
Mr. Joae lin, the energstie
Chairman of the Entertainment Com.| 12 Peace Movement’ Follows on
mittee, having been singularly suc.| Cables Tolling of Many Re-
ceasful tn ng services of} Verses Suffered by Irregulars
some or the most celebrated artists inj Throughout South.
the co
DUBLIN, March 25:—General Befin,
one of the chief Irregular leaders, has
| been captured by Pree-State tops op
erating from Sligo, eccording to an of-
| ficial army report recetved here.
Bofin is known as the “Irish De
Wet.” He was recently at the head of
ree number of Irregulars whose
stronghold was in the Arigna ‘Moun-
tains, County Cavan. Free State
Joe MeAnallan, famous lyric tenor. |
a native of Armagh, who met with in-
stant success on his first appearance fn
Dublin with a eauawis, th ¢ famous bart-|
tone, and r ever since has
‘ succession of successes, has
turned to New York ‘from a tour of the
be on hand to sing
ta hie inimitable °may the old ballads
lL. nts en ‘be prams wn] come an-
wi PEGE |S Se ear
Kearney, 4: coflralte, of whow | gmonat of manana wring among.
mountain fastnesses the rebels caped
the Free State net,
PEACE TALK RENEWED.
pretive and expressive. Excejé in Irish
ngs.” She ts a student of Medame
ai not and thelr efforts here. Through
oMices of the Charlés H. Dit:) 4 party of Irregulars, who yesterday
son 7 Company they have been so. fortun- ambushed a group of Free State troops
ato as to the services of Grace | near Wextord, were rounded up today
Merton Stevenson, Washington soclety! 4, tne Government forces. In the bi
girl, who has been acclaimed as one of the Ieregulere were Killed
the world's most accomplished harpists. | 1,
She will play her selections on a beau-
tifat and. most valuable inetrumént, a
Lyon & Healy harp. Her performances
have won the highest praise from all
the critics for ber finished knowledge
of the sweet toned music of her instru-
ment., Miss Stev
full] a concert engageme: tew| y,
weeks, so that an opportunity of hear:
}ing her will not be afforded -| nationals suffered no casualties
eter. he woe ee oi ti MORE DOCUMENTS CAPTURED.
markably sweet singer, will gpen the) DUBLIN, March 21.—It ts’ reported
meeting with “The StarSpatgled Ban-|that Eamon De Valera had another nar.
ner,” and Mclntyfe's popular orchestra It ts
IRREQULARS «DEFEATED IN
MULLINGAR FIGHT.
MULLINGAR, March 24. — Irregu-|
lars early to-day attacked outposts of
of the evening. taken into cu!
Finally, while no stone has.besn left oortanea alleged to
to provide a genuine Irish at-
be of some im
k Pe onsignor Luzio of the Sacred Con-
pul sroratin at Rome. who has been sent
afirm nd by
le for which’ the men of Easter Week
sacrificed thelr lives. The resolutions
doing this will be rend by John Devoy.
—-»_—_
t
of. injetring into the situation, visited
Cardinal Logue, Primate of Ircland, at
Armagh toda:
21 IRREGULARS CAPTURED.
WILLIAM J. BURKE DEAD UBLIN, March 21 y-one
. sinh inaurgents were érrested today,
William x ares Burke, aged forty-six, 8) including C. J. Lynch, Chiet of the Ir-
- lawyer of Nassnu Street and 4 / regular putts bureau, and a mao
cousin of Sustice Dantel F. Cobain ad named O'Bler
of John P. Cohalan, fotmer 8 special cour!
was seized with a heart attack on Mon
day afternoon, March 26, at the
bers Street station of the Sixth ‘Avenue
elevated line « and ated ts . few minutes.
body the Beach
Eurest Pattee “Station ” where identifica-
tion was made.
Mr. Burke was born at Middletown,
N. Y., and was graduated from Man-| vi
hattan College and New York Univers. luc
ity Law Schoo! whi bby of a motion
hee wite died\ several” ears ago and | picture theatre. » No one was injured by
e had been living in the canoe the explosion, but a man was serlously
ie leaves a sister, Sister M:
head of at Mary's Hospital
e, sald to be De Valera’s
er.
TWO BIG VICTORIES FOR
DE VALERA'S MOB ARMY.
DUBLIN, March 24.—A violent explo.
sion was followed by an outburst of re-
w
An’ o! her
daughtdr were shot dead at Aughafin,
County! Longford, by a raiding party. |
. The daughter's husband is a National
offcer and itis believed he was being
sought,
‘Thirtieth Street, with burial at Middle-
ro, .
at-| wherever applied. is found to
e Pontiff with the task h
oof
Imperial re fides —— Links
ee Will Be
Tested | Soo , He Declares.
“when tke forces? at anarchy and
farmed minority despotism have bee en
finally overthrown and the cat
country vitiitcated, Ireland wil eet
her task of-wation building under con-
ditions more Yavorabie th an those
. Patrick at
thefr annual, dinner the Bate
Armory, Pitfston, Pa. on Mareb ‘1
Mr. Crawto the ‘prinepal
of New York City;
Municipal C
‘William E, Key, Clerk of.the Court of
Kinga Count ‘ork; and _At-
torney T. F. Farrell, ot Wilkes Barre.”
Mayor Dante? F. tf Wilkes-
Barre, was the aster. There
were more than five hundred gu
“AR
id tke'Act
r9t9, at
OE Maret > ton
IMPERILS
draws ‘Interpretation of
Britain’s By Nearly Two
Over American Navy,
Fuhds— Incident Fair
(From Army and Nary Journal.),s
‘What appears tobe a drive against the’
present, the hall tastefully deco-
rated with Americgn and Irish
aed the musical programme was one of”
t merit; the artists including
Jamie Kelly, Mort Downey and William
Kennedy, well known New York fav-
tes,
“This
loins for the race’ upon which she now!
enters, {8 richly endowed und splendid-
ly equippéd for the ultimate tricmph of
agatnst ish ‘pretehtions: of 94,
the-British Imperial system: The con-
stitution of the Iriah Free State sires
t reland
the implications of responsible govern-
nt. This includes cabinet govern-
| ment, self-government ant gor.
ernment. Through cabinet forarmanent
Ireland places her feet firmly
of national por cralgnty. ‘or once
established the
‘sponsibility to parliament and
patible with subordination to tha sprit |
which was the In-
Grattan sgonatitu
jon and which led to the downfall of
he siete parliament. Thia is the great
of the evolution oF Tesponstble
government fn Canada—upon the con-}
"| stitutional practices of which Ireland |
“| takes her stand In conformity with the
yz | Treaty of London—aad it reveals to us
e
n Ireland which, although theore
ally
since obsolete and which no longer ap-
ply, ts: iimited only by-the spirit and
vision of her people inthe final st
advance by constitutional practice
and international. repognition.
EXPLAINS IRISH CONSTITUTION,
Much has been writen about the de.
feéts’ of the Iris te Constitu-
tion, but it must be sald that, while. de-
‘fects exist, thé power to enforce them
the jt ical ob-
stacles with which the constitution is
cu lish are great
The Eng!
mticklers er ancient* forms and cere-
montes, Prerogatives of the sov-
rele, now © vented im the responsible
ministers’ through parliament, ore
peated in the ancient formulas of days
when o sovereign cerciee
these ‘ives. “Their
" the Irish constitution
othing
navo the’ attachment of the
English parliament ‘to the frayed put
pie and den crown of a Kingehlp
‘ing more
formidetie, than a tbls symbol of the
continuity of the state through all the
cHanges of ministries and of parties. Be
fore Tespanstble foverement, was won
in England the King
ruled. Today, ina more "gomocratic
dispensation, he reigns/but ‘does not
acts omy upon the advice | of responsible
minister
Even the clause in the Irteh consti-|"
, A0ontinued on Page 2)
je of cabinet re-! 4
peo
alth
a difference in the range of the
‘bound to restrictions that are tone fleets is the real bas! tor ceovea tor|
re. | really the letter of
j modernization Pi
as, arte Government categorically
denied {hat any alteration’ has been
| made - fe abips of Great Britain
|stnce ‘the signing of the Waval Treaf
-! In response to the demiands of the Bat
ae tate |
“rteeent rey
of bial
Secres
Roose’
siatament in bebalf of the Neve Dep
ove ts set forth in Colonel ‘Roosevelt's!
ted below... the Depgrt:
sa a “ba
jh q from
™ ts given out atthe epertment;
repre sented that thid was a charge of
all pad. faith on ite pert carvyitig out {he
jtreaty. The retractions of Secretary
| it really ,deal with ihe
an of nyine out the provision
the treaty. There {s nothing i
sicher statement to Indicate, and it 1s
jof the British navy does not exceed
| that of thé United States Navy. The
questior to, whether, the origtanl
Bao of the British fleet give
antage over the American Novy really
determines the relative strength of the
jtwo nay
The original designs of the British
fleet give it a range of 3,000 yards In
excess of the American fleet.
rc, | Httle jess than two shore miles. Su:
ha
the moderntzation
foe yt. ime British navy ‘ba one capl-
p with a range of 30,000 yards,
ma 0 ‘ot ita abips have a range of 247,
rards.
000
five ships with a Tange of 30,000 ya
but thirteen
yards’ range. The 21 ships in thet But
ish navy. with 24,000 yards’
the range of the British fet at 1 090
yards. The thirteen ships in the United
States Navy fix the range of the fleet
at 21,000 yards.
ELEVATION OF BIG GUNS.
‘To put the United States Navy on the
same basis with thé British navy and
thus carry out not only the spirit but.
the-treaty, under the
modernization programme, tt te pro
to elevate the guns of the twen-
ty-one ships and thus increase the fleet
of the United Statés Navy to that
of the British navy. The statements of
the Secrelar a Stat
of its fleet to gi as
‘range as that of the British fi
fa nothing in the treaty which indicates
secant such a
of its
fleet. In this connection the following
1s quoted from the treat
“No retaine od capital ships or aircraft
IRISH LITERATURE
@ hy
toa. of- the tutret guns of ;the, earns
sit ‘wap dene, ’
Hughes and Acting Secretary of: the! reapect sh
Navy
2080 ed, was done before February 6,
defence of
ch
aad Une Materestsof the
IRISH RACE:
PRICE FIVE. CENTS.
HUGHES’ BRITISH BIAS —
U.S. NAVY.
ny Pay! . .
From Secretary of State, at London’s Bidding, Slavishly With
Naval Treaty Which Would
Permit - Elevation “of Guns Now Out-Ranged By
Kiles----Had Approved Eng: .
land’s Modernization Plans in New Haven Speech.
we IN SHARP CONFLICT WITH NAVY DEPARTMENT.
‘|
“Army and Navy Journal’? Points Qut There Is—
Nothing in Treaty Entitling Englan
‘0 Advantage
and Nothing Forbidding
Adjustments: For Which -Congress Has Provided-
Sample of What Would
Happen If United States Entered British League.
nse against air and submarine ‘at-
, and subject to the following
attack
roteetion, providing the gree ot.
isplecement thus. affected dose not ex-
ed 3,000 tons (3,048 metric tons): dis-
each ship. No alterat!
‘general type of mounting, of mat
Tent shall be-perm!
jan for an inoreane in gun ele
tion of ane modernization pi
wat not alter. “th
, 1 peor PROTECTION: ,
a protection against al!
tacks i iatsay provided for in the pro-
Yieian’ of the treaty which 1s quoted.”
What the British navy has done in thls
ould not. concern our naval”
authorities. It hes been admitted that
. sums of money have been expert:
ed by the British Government.on alters
ations to give additional defense
against air attacks, but this, it 1s claim.
22,
when the treaty was sisued.. There 1s,“
however, nothing in the treaty to pré-
hibit the British Admiralty trom don:
'|tinuing the work it has already
ron on {ts fleet tn this respect, It
robably do this in the fut
Prpurely there is nothing in The tredty
to-prevent the United States fram mak-
ing the sane {improvement in $6 ate
ital
“that hi
ng
eyen if this-should have tak
fore the signing of the treaty, The
only Imitation placed in equipping “ex.
isting tonnage with blister or enti-ajr
attack deck protection” is an increaa®
in displacement of 3,000 tons, ‘
‘That this provision should be invtha
treaty Indicates that the framers-of thé
the capital ships, The United
Navy will be clearly within its rights.
to equip tts ships with all of the mod
oe air attack protection so long as-it
eps within the 3.000 tone Tm
matter of fact, it {s stated that the
appropriations for modernisation will
only. provide for the elevation of the
guns.
measu’ :
seademto and will be until the Navy
Départment: goes to Congreris again for
additional appropriations for the mod-
ernization programm ‘he only con-
struction that can be Placed upon the
ng activities of the British Government tn
the Konnection is that it wishes to fur
ih
December \29, 1922, I made the follow-
ing statement with reepect to altera-
tions in the Britiae fonltal 8
“°Th tina constiers ble
number of Britten vahips dulges have
reconstructed ‘except
providing’ means of
carriers shall be
purpose of
deen fitted, elevations of turret guns tn.
AOontinued on Page 3.)