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- . A JOURNAL DEVOTED TO THE CAUSE OF IRISH INDEPENDENCE, IRISH LITERATURE AND THE INTERESTS OF THE IRISH RACE.
Whole No. 658,”
NEW YORK, APRIL 22, 1916.
_ New You
Entored as aecond-ciasa hatter, Oct. 1, 1903, at the Post Offies at
.N. ¥./under the act of Congress of March 3, 1879.
PRICE FIVE CENTS.
HEDHOND'S CONFESSION OF ABJECT FAILURE
ly Statement To The New York “ World” He Reduces Wis Recruiting Figures By
Many Thousand And Admits His Policy Of Supporting England In The War
Has Not Allayed English Unionist Opposition To Home Rule, While The
“Northern Orangemen Are As Bitter As Ever—Not One Catholic
Admitted To The Uster Division—all Claims Of His Nation:
alist Critics As To Failure
OF His Recruiting Camp
aiga Tacitly Admitted—True Nationalists’ Atti-«
tude And Action Amply’ Justified.
Another, statement from John Red:
mood appeared in the New York World
It is dated April 2 and is
i make good his
calm that he has succeeded in his pol-
ky of winning English support’ for the
lessening
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it has so many remarkable points
ot difference a: nm mi
rorthy of serious oti
Inferests of Irelani it removed
the only real Basia cues tion to Home
Isle ard woutd hav effect of breal
ng down the eonositon of the follow:
en of Sir Edwai rson. With fine
rhetorical toaises we Redmond pic:
tered the return: to Ireland of the
eer catholics ad "Northe ern Pro-
who had been fighting shoulder
w slr for’ the -“small - nationali-
the “faith of treaties” an
6 lion: lying down with ‘th
chee "tm while the grateful ‘prt
emocracy. sald, “Bless- you, .
aliren? and sent King George over
fe Dubita to oren the Irish Parllament.
X ond practically admits
Gat" all this an nonsense; that thi
fosllsh Unionists are as bitterly op-
to Home Rule as ever, and: that
‘impression whatever has been made
on the UI ranger No such
watession of defeat has ever been
TONY'S SIGNIFICANT ADMISSIONS
sue time Mr. Redmond's statement
ot lessened by one jot the determined
24. unrelenting oppositio mn. of
Uster Orangemen, Here is what Mn
in the war—not i field, for
re the mi e
tow, aa always, the highest fame—bu'
‘ recrutting, has been raised again tt
te London Times, the inspiration evi-
fectly proceeding froi n
dedquarters in Belfast. Ever ‘since
hay ¢ no opportunity
misrepresenting or disparaging: tho
mn help given by Nationalist Ire
anti-Hom
tet feeling, which are synonymous
(ems in Ulater—as even the bulk of
ae Unionist press realized the unfair-
othing of the, smpoltey of
Weeping alive the Irish feu
Rineland t by exaggerating what Ulster
eu done in the war
© to un s right to
tone Rule, It is thought that if the
ritinh peo} ' impresse it)
‘ke Idea that Nationalist Ireland is, if
Yt hostile, at least api
athetfe about the;
‘at, atrength will be . giv
to the
Orange demand that the Home Rule
Bill shall be repealed.”
MOND CLIMBS DOWN,
Redmond begins by making a poor ef-
fort to show that Ireland’s exemption
rom Conscription was not, a:
Law frankly admitted in the House
Commons, dueto fear of Irish restat-
ance, but to the e belte that Conscrip
tion would not be the best way to
recruits from Ireland.” Then, ignoring
his own extravagant claims made in :
Sun onl, few weeks
from 350,000 fh ishmen at the front. to
Lord Wimborne's 105.000 fo
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army before the war and
sailors,
Mgion and pi arson's claim that
the Protestants we out of all propor-
tion to the Catl
“In the arm: “atone,” says Redmond,
“the figures are 147,547, of whom 88,080
are Catholica and 8 ‘otes-
nts.” Thi in admission that three.
fourths of thé people of Ireland supply
ly°a little more than half the Iri
soldiers ni the t, while t
other fourth contributes a little less
than hi umabet men.
Mr.“Redmond is a clumsy man on fig-
ures,- as his- speeches on the British
Budgets which robbed , Ireland proved
knows arithmetic,
18 own, elaims: ts positive! * stupla.
‘The flabby, expressionless face in the
World's picture of him at of a man
who has lost his
“IRISH” Paasaretoeiitsd FILLED WITH
MEN,
Red: ‘cruelly unfortunate
in as denial of the fact that
the. so-called “Irish”. regiments are
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at one meeting that
@ so-called “irteb regiment which “be-
haved badly. at the Dardanellos” "had a
majority. of Boat shmen. -If Mr. Red-
mond mado a rales denial in Tre
re him, for the
holland explained
3 that Engitshmen were put
in Mhe irish regiments in the be) sinning,
lot to make it appeat
that they hdve since been taken sway.
This is not true, for the complaint is
still made by recruiting officers who are
very much better informed that Mr.
edmond. .
REDMOND'S DAMNING ADMISSIONS
also unfortunate in his claim
about the number of men who volun-
teered into the army from the Carson
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mn Volunteers in
claims and makes good
of the real Nationalists that recruiting
in Ireland is a .
ULSTER DIVISION ADMITS NO
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0 other evidence of the
In one part
vee he “The Thirty-sixth Div:
ston, W Which is called the Ulster Divk
ston, is composed, we are told, entirely
of anti-Nationalist Ulstermen, It ts, T
believe, quite: true that no Catholic is
atlowed ii t, either in the, ranks or
among the officers. But at any rato, it
is @ pur h division, atal
ment, thevetore, that the Trish divisions
are farsely made up of Englishmen ts a
matisiou
he ‘voturns to the subject and
they permitted the v Teurey-stath
(Ulster) Division to set up a barrier
of oxansion against ‘Catholic solaters
and
they are, T
coun not a single
from the officers’ mess because they dis
covered he was a Catholic.”
man who makes this
lieve that the Government which per-
its this means to treat Ireland fairly
md that the men guilty of such con-
duct pa return to Ireland ready to ac-
cept
REDMOND erent HIMSELF,
ittern:
cites in support o
quoting their words, “many Pp:
Uniontsta ke Dr B
accept Home Rule. at
leadership.
dro But Mr. Redmond
says ne believes that “meat of the intel-
ligent men in Ulst e accepted the
enactment of the
accomplished fact.
the same breath he proceeds
Home Rule Bill as an
Ul
that all its lea:
solidly srrayes agaénst {t as when Car-
auized his Ulster Volun-
ir, Tuohy asked him: “Is it true
that the political truce which has been
in existence since the opening of the
War has been broken in teeta nd?
CARSON RERUSES ve? SPEAK WITH
Mr, .Redmond’s ‘inser was av
fective -refutation of his own claims,
mad v! said:
ticians hav e on
mencement their ‘anti-Home- Rule cam-
paign, and Belfast newspapers teem day
by day with attacks upon myself and
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instant desire t
co-operate with Ulster Unionists in sup:
port of everything connected with the
war. Unfortunately, in many instances
they have been repulsed. n Sir d-
Carson and. nyt
we a joint recruiting mecting recently at
wry I accepted, but Sir Edward Car-
son declined to go upon the. platform
, and the meeting fell through.”
No Irish Nationalist who condemns
Mr, Redmond’s course since the out-
break of the war cowld ask a more
fective or. convincing demonstration of
his utter failure, and folly than this
statement coming. from his. own lips.
His policy has absolutely failed to xc
complish any of the thin
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his imbecility,
Resisting Attack—Vigorous
Meetings: of Protest in Dublin—
Ginnell Denounces the Tyranny in’ Parliament—Trying to
Provoke Resistance Which the Castle Hopes Can Be Crushed.
‘ The British Government has inaugu-
rated a reign of terror in Ireland in
provoking resis stance which
it “eathly thinks it can easily c
Mey are being depo rted without trial,
and in several parts of the country sev-
eral persons are detained in prison and
bafl is refused in nearly every insta:
tary. and police
either destroyed or ted.
also a crime to speak Ssh in Cork and
Donegal.
VOLUNTEER ORGANIZERS IN JAIL.
Monahan, Irish Volunteer or-
ganizer in. Galway, has been ordered by
the authorities to leave Ireland within
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tried in Bel fast, and ‘imprisoned “for
three month
Messrs EB. ‘plyth and Liam Mellowes,
Irish. Volunteers, now in Arbor Hill
military prison, Dublin, have also got
orders to Jeave Ireland within six days,
being given the option to live in speci
fied English towns . att th ot
fd for realdence
ther
charge under the Defence of the Realm
ct, was brought before Mr. P. J. Kelly,
Resident Magistrate, at Limerick, April
The case preferred against him is
tant of having, on the evening of March
24, at Limerick Railway Station, un-
\d and made statements to
stead of fighting the Germans?”
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DOES GERMANY AIN.TO ELIMINATE FRANCE?
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That Seems To Be The Belief Of Maximilian Harden And Other Thoughtful Men Re-
garding The Attack Qn Verdun—Admiration For French Gallantry Indicates
. Willingness To Make Reasonable Terms And Then. Finish The Death
Grapple With England —English Inefficiency, Selfisiiness And
Failure To Do Peoper Share. In The Fighting Irritating :
‘Frechmen —British Soldiers Poorly Traiaed, Officers ©
Unfit And They Have Not One Able Geaeral—all
The Elements Of A Great Debacle At Haad.
Since the beginning of ‘the German
attack on merican military
men—real soldiers, not the anonymous
termine the final outcome of the wal
Not that they believe that the capture
or Verdun—which they say i
unless England and Rus:
nd sia, me-
thing they are not likely to be ate to
would be in itself decisive, but for
other reasons, chiefly its effect on the |.
‘ople.
French p
e french army is Gghting magnif-
cently and winni ing the admiration of
the whole world, including the Ger-
‘mans, but. France is in a very bad way.
Her chief industrial and mining sec-
tions are in the hands of the Germans,
ward. Every ina military ‘sor-
vice in France is already under arms
and the conscripts of 1917 have been
called out. @ has no more met
fill up the terrible gaps being madi
every nks of her army.
She is being bled to death. She has
+ Negroes
from
Asi:
to her colored subject:
the fighting on the We
been done by the Jon;
time there has been ‘dissatisfaction in
France « over England's failureto do her
fair
England's failure to do her fair share
is due to two causes. The inefficiency of
her half-trained soldiers, the incompe-
tence and ignorance of the art of war
of her new
has ‘constructed an
| entrenchments, i. the expectation, _fhat
the
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she is reserving her sti
defence of England
pride,
fair | to France from a military point of
The gepture ot Verdun woutd prob-
ably bi on a crisis in Anglo-French
reation, “os ‘well as a serious military
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irresistible demand for peace might be
nua continue to ent
show of trying
soil and peace dictated in .
‘This situation accounts for the fran-
tic outeries In
intervention and fo efforts of the
pro-British Administration in Washing:
m to bring about a ith Ger-
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many. ' President Wilson is more con-
cerned over,the safety of England than
the safeguarding of American lives at
The New York’ sum last Sunday pub-
lished an article oy “Maximilian Harden,
watch seems fo e famous
malist entertains ideas
somewhat similar to those above stated.
will be found below,
HARDEN. REMARKABLE ARTICLE.
(From the\New York Sun, April 16.)
n has been called
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the most. ‘less and st feared.
journalist in: the Kaiser's empire. His
pen. assails. the highest
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his satire and scepticism on Germany’s
enemies.
By Masaacuins Hari
s he is pertectiy satis-
This the second Archon Aristides
knows.
Does he know, too, that he has sunk
his name: and fame in an enterprise
‘hich © to, humar reckoning
never bear fuit, even if Heaven's favor
should . smile. upon . it—ne' The
every position al el
t) glum: that they lack neither men nor
guns nor ammunition; that ‘eis
plenty of everything everywhere. That
the ans paders equal to their
tasks experience has proved. ~
us consider thi heot
he German It re penetrated,
1 of them, everywhert e Allies
then would a sucet f gi
proportions to register to their credit.
‘he peace, however, which M. Bri
has, promised would still He in th
misty distance. A. peace which gives
‘rench Alsace-Lorraine could be
wrested only from a Germany groaning
ve or twenty years
Gober minded. individual
hope to weaken the empire-to such @
extent that its soldiers must withdraw
in
unity of will, could be dispersed, like a
swarm of mosquitoes.
on one of the long front, a whole
my.
The loss of ber induotrial Cistrtets
plight? Could
al?
Surely ° the unprojudiced mind will
more readily patie in: the possibility
of an army no in possession of Noyon
and St. Guentn taking Paris than in
the miracle of our inemmtes driving our
warriors, who hav ved their worth
@ hundred times and ‘who are @ equippe