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A JOURNAL. DEVOTED TO THE CAUSE OF IRISH INDEPENDENCE, IRISH LTTEIMTURE AND THE INTERESTS OF THE IRISH RACE -V
vol. XIV., No. 2. ‘whole No. 696. I s
NEW YORK, JANUARY 13, I917.
nnrana na nomad-eln-4 vnamv. 04. I. ml. at the routers
Nov YortI,N. Y.. undqr the mar um.-raaaor March a. is ..
rnicr: Hvl: GENTS.
ENSLAND RELEASES UNTRIED IRISH PRISONERS
Men Who llaii Been imprisoned, Perseguted And Starved For Eight Months In
' .. frongoch And other Detention Cl‘ilJJ[lS.l.BI Out A Few Days llefore Christ-
mas-Purlialnentary Leaders Who Cheercd The Execution 0f Pearse
7 Andtlther Patriot Chiefs Pose As If The ll0VEl'Ilnl6lli'S V” Act Ill
. Generosity" Was Due To Their Pleading. While Irish Tory
r V Papers tiive Credit To The “ Extremists "-lllen In p
Poor Condition From Bud Food And Drastic Pun-
ishment, But llold Their lleuds Up As They
The men prisoners who had
detained in Frongoch null other Detenv A
E
tion Camps in wales and us
without, trial ror eight month: and
sutiered bitter persecution and
‘misery at the henna otthe British
erumant were released in time to s
their clvvisllnss at home. The
been
land.
who
unial
Gov-
pend
Irish
Pnrty-the men who stood up I1Lths
Commons and cheeed the An- "and if ‘it
nouncenlent oi the shooting of Fenrsw
and
the Pnrttamentnr
the Izloti
merit in its act of :'EQnerosltY" In lily
crating men whom it had
without trial and had detained and
land to
send 150,000 or her sons to
at that
n are languishing in
vil:t prisons on the sentence of n I.‘
lnartl
any evidence at at
H which convicted. them withou
imprisoned
per.
r that Ire-
11
over a hundred
chn- B
nurt-
t
THEIR ARRIVAL IN. DUBLIN.
The following account of the release
on
Ireland on S
N.W. boat. Grremare,
the North Will It 8
were-met by is Inr
gave than: a cordtn we nln
released inclu
ditor Emitwartllu Echo;
Helena Moluny. Dublin. and Miss
t
no
-4
n ur-
which arrived at
:40 A. M. -ruey
number of friends.
a.
den llir. William
Miss
Wlnt- H
A big body ll
stall in It the North Wall for Cork
lull Limerick. and about 40 (rain
who were in need of
the
the afternoon.
some throughout
Among-those who called to
men buck was
the-.
About 1400 Mlditianul
the unit ‘host It KNEE .
Jority or those were iron the south
West. are were olllY
dc-an Dublin men an
lltbef
vnkonors
or them wo .
ELL KNOWN NAMES
to Fleming's Howl. G
welcome th
Ml-.. Laurence 'Ginnell.
men arrived
town The
come home. All t
looked in robust health. ltlsni’
re beards '
the
or-
it
and
The last batch of prisoners arrived
yesterday morning at westlsna
may hndheen confined in Reading,
than
15--
c.; Arthur Griisth, Henry Dixon.
raft: o'Msilie, Connemara: Ex-Alder
W Cole, P. J. D
ROW. cit
nnd
dad many ‘well known people, such
scan T. 0'Kell1v 'l.‘.C.: P T Duly, T
Pad:
nun
r . editor Western
News, Westport; John Neasonv helmet:
Louh
ll
lII'BrId2, Jeremiah .l'. 0'
net], Captain M. .T. O'REllIy. Captain M.
Conneli, Captain Itlorkun, Wil
l'Sweene!v Cork;
C rk; B. O'l3rissoIl. 5kihher-
g res: P.
Albert Cotton.
.'i
n
o
3.’
um
Langley, Tlllrn: George Nicholle, iIi.A.,
solicitor, Gslwsy: canir Ct'Shan
Beirut; a James M'Gawan
hell.
and
is us.
‘ were affected. and it is (sired that. the
err
ti
arrival. and-gave instructions to than ""‘”" C""“"“”'
s to call
by we
‘ their rriends
ortal
lllareh Proudly Through lJuhlin.
James lwcorrnlck. or the irisu Citizen
i‘l'll)'.
A number oi the released men who
hailed from Munster left ior their
homes by the mail train, While those
otil the West remained in Dublin, he-
Ing hosnilahly entertained.
Ity looked Wall and slcklly
re not for the parcels
which arrived some must hove d
nger
A pmsozv srrnslfrc.
asn
I:
on
other ones‘ abnormally hl is.
c y say."
any from the Home ornce.
rnedlstely proceeded in pin up, and,
having signed the necessary dischar e
0 ,we were conveyed by t!‘
Puddington Stattonbwhen
engaged 1 , ton.
nit 8740 Ind 8:45 P. M.,Ln r-
rived to catch the boat from Holyhemd
t 3 A. M. W van st Kingstown
nt. 6:30. and were delighted to tread
lrlsh soil sllin."
At Wlestlnrtd Row, early as was the
hour, the train was met 17
hers. who accorded the released prison-
In at gr us .
At the North Wall on sunday morn-
ing the released were met, on behalf of
' the lrish National Aid Association, hy
lliessrs. O'Connor, cshlil. and
ul’l'BY.‘ Wh Ill
aenlblemclleerad as the men came out,
ml the ox-vrlsoners, to the number oi
zoo. in military tennntinn
along the ouays to the vi .
s party or released connsngnirnen
lmwlor.
II had
3
reised cheers.
Otherwise their journey was undernou-
strntlve. ‘
FRIENDS‘ ALL-l't'I(7HT 171611..
The majority or ‘the Fronsoeh men
were quite cheerful, and made no com-
ability and kindness of the ‘prison camp
medical 0 (Ar, 0 com
I’.
ding . good-bye, nnd wished them '-
Irish Independent snsciul repre-
sanutive travelled with the released
men from Chester, and hadseversl in-
teresting interviews with then: on the
homewdrd journey.
Numbers of relatives and friends kept
an all-night Vigil at the Non ll
5‘
..s
hettc. They stood outside the gates
the L. and N.W. ltsilwsy greeting
as they passed through the
was s touching scene. hav-
ing in it nothing or the eduslvely dem-
onstrative-lust s quiet iumily meeting
in every instance.
Son-le iorty or the returned men
marched mm the North wall to the
to
once for
tor Christmas were arriving at Fron-
goch hslnrs their release. , Thirty
prisoners remained hehlnd to look after
these.
At Cheater the released men were
met hy h rsw irlends and syrnbstrtizers.
They lert for l-lolyheud nt midnight, and
it was a er .
Travelling with them to Dublin our
resentntlvs gathered Interesting lniorv
l-nutien The out-
c ar-
Acterlzed their conversation. Solnn, no
s more: . it:
In e num- W
e are they sat . ta tr ry c
rep a
donut. complained at the conduct at the
Colvlrnnndsllt. hut tins of d
uv
d h
tart, an nvlng no understanding or
the lrlsh character." ,
zrsws or RELEASE.
With the Prison Adjutant. tlla re
leased men said. they get on rentsrlr
ably well. It was e W 0 first told
them on many evening time they were
to he released. ews won as wel-
comu as it‘was unexpected. After a
hurriedly-taken tea the men parlrod up
their belongings, and were slml-lly liter
murclllng to the railway station singing
rish songs At e nearest town
Oi
opla gave the lrishmen a gootlv
natured send-0 .
sum: or win RELEASED.
nlors, County Galway; P. L. O
GaIwaY City.
County Galway; William Hurt
more; William, Tam.
Michael xewelle (brothers), Cuatlegar.
Goiwny; Michael Freney.
more:
s
west. Or n
Orunmore: Jame
enry; Michael Barret, Athenry; liartln
EDT)’; urence
Jenn ’Gnsltsh. Athenry:
e m
(2) ; trick
Cooley. orumnore; Pntrick Keane. Oran-
el At orhnmore;
Patrick
s
Michael Blake. cnstlegnr;
unney. D.
Hughes, West
port; Joseph Gill,
Kean, Westport; Tom
loo: Peter I-isnezn
Costelloa. Athenry;
more: I. Corbett. Cla :8
Greldish Clarenbridge; Michael Rusne,
rnnmore; Jack 1"! Y. Athenrii
FnhY.
estpul-t; Joseph
, Westnort:
Westoort. y
South and South East-Seumns Hanv
ll, Atllenry;
Martin Tools. 0
0
Michael art: Owen Hughes,
Gill. Wentvart; and
Patrick Ttlnneit
v-. Gill
rrls :
ey, Enniscorthy; M.
so ohn
O'Connor, Ennlsconhy; M. Cahlll. En-
' n
=
.5“?
tin Kine
Clonakilt
Kerry-Messrs D. Henly.
O'Mhhony. Castleislsnd;
O'Connell. Cnstleisland. >
,
d BRITISH MAY LIIIERATE
‘IRISII MAIITYIPS PARENTS
Rumor Circulated In Dublin That
Count and Countess Plunkett, Who
Were Departed Shortly Alter the
Shooting of Their Son, Are About
0 Be Released.
DUBLIN. Dec. . Z8.-It is reported
here that the British Home Secret!)-I’!
as under consideration the Withdrawal
of the depormtlon or er against Count
and Countess Plunkett, the father null
a
after the Irish uprising of Easter Week.
Count and Countess P unkett have
two other sons who
1'
without any charges
against them and were not given the
tornzalrty or a trial. ,
?..-o-2 .
THE BRITISH GALLOWS
IN USE IN INDIA AGAIN.
In suite at Brltlstlrcensnrsltip. ll-tron
rnatlon leans on now en that
rilnin is not hating things all her
own way in in la.
- A despatch from London. printed in
the New Yol-lt Amrrtorm or last Tues-
day says: -
m
ADO
connected with the Lahore (India) '(‘on-
n
t snapartav
lion ior life and the others terms of
Imprisonment.
Hnvsrty, nioylnugh, it
Plan)’. “I
,5 the compuny promised in
liiclmi Dayle. snnls G V
street; John O'Rlardan. Mssroom; itlsr- 5'“ 9“
ry, sermoy; Peter 0'Donovnn, R
Tnlee; D. It
Mortimer
r
N, Jan. s.--Seventeen norsuns
COULDN’T'GET MATERIAL
T0 REPAIR SUEMARINE.
Alter Nineteen Months the G-1
Yard
When She Entered it Because
' Steel Companies Were so Busy
Filling Contracts for the Allies
Tlmt They Could Not Work for
Their Own Government.
ior the Allies to Bll]'l]7l)'ll’lK material to
their own government. ‘
Reierl-lug t this l-nutter the New
York A1Il(‘V‘1(‘t1lI of January 4. sa s:
In June. 1915, the Unitvrl States aub-
marine G-I arrived at the Brool<ll'n
their ellort to
1-huse oi el
o sstisisrtlon. Every week
new shnits
learn the
could get it
Within 1 day or two.
weeks ago the Nnry Yard oi’-
hope of ever recslvv
new nlnchlllery. W0 d
1-[Q3 slvstts or the tour an one-halftncll site,
. t
he same as those removed alter hem!
found inndeouute. were procured and
reinstalled. Thus it is that the 6-1 is
returning to the ilset in the same llnv
nerrect condition ior‘vl-hich she was de-
taellerl nincteenrxrlallths H80,-
: Bill oliloizroll THE "FliEEl‘llAll"
Redmomlite Organ Getsicolonsal
in for Its Losses In Easter
9% .
(From the Roscommon Herold,
Dec. 23.)
The Govt-rnrnent have deternlined to
is hnndsmns (‘heck
in Government run s. was
Mr. Glnnsll. iIl.P., who hrnuglt these
facts to light in the House at Commons
on Thursday night.
THOSE "DARK FORCES" ARE
EVIDENTLY AT WORK.
IIIIIS. SKEF F Ill GTON l'.IAlIES PITOFOIIND IllIPllESSIOI'l
llidowllf Irish Editor And Pacifist Deeply lloves in Immense Audience In Carnegie
llzlll liy ller Calm And llispassionzte Recital (if The lirutal Murder Of Iier
llnshand By The British Military Authorities. And Of The Terrible Events
Through Which She And Her Little Boy Were Forced To Live-rlier
llnshund Left To Linger In Agony And A Second Volley
Fired At ilim Before lie on Dead-Leaders Of The
liehellion Were horribly
Crimes Were Committed lly The Mi
llllitilsled And Atrocions
iiry-Ireland's Spirit Not Stitled.
rlla‘ lecture given by Mrs, Slleelli’
egle Hall on satur-
rlotlllt the most
that has been hear
u great number or year n
heard it sny they seldom if ever listen-
ed to anything that was so intensely
VII
:r
o
n... Ski:t‘lington's calm and dinpas
' slonate manner and her complete avoid-
.l.ms.. sl-li:l:Hlr'.slu:l-or-‘l-.x‘c.'l'ux A.x’D
R‘ si-:vs.x-rmlmhn 50>:
' ow
once at anything that even tended t
sung inl
connIVs't'ir‘e.oi Dultlln Castle In ever)’
. more that was made, cannot but have
r I no less than revolutionary ellect upon
. the mtbllc mind of this country, and
will undoubtedly hvralren the Amerlran
people to an apllrerlntlon, and let it be
it severe condernnution of the
lan<l and which still
lull away.
3175. Skeflington his I hezullllllly
resonant and distinct volt-e, her dtriion
is n '
continues there in
V ‘ l1 he 1 on til i It d
That tlfe "dhrlr rams which were so 53;. , ,1: ::m,""o ,,::,',',';7e::
Hlznmcnnily "‘'-’"W W '909'"‘Y In “'9 hut she scrupulously retrained iroln
Russian Du n -n were accused
are unhuhdued. is var)’ evident
from the iollowing despllrll Whlrh no-
neared in the New York Sun 0! Janu-
ary 5.
BERIAN (or wireless). Jan. I.-"Ab
Agency statement today. "the prohibi-
tlon of the convention: in III
that the soldiers irlsterntzed with
the crowd.
“According to another rumor Captain
Tschelnalmv of the Mosrow city (arses
' Prince Lvov were among those ar-
an
35
go.
The resignation of El. lilaktroif, Rus-
sian Minister of Just . and t
Dolniment of Senator Dohromlskt as
his suoeessnr is reported.
M in
m
r:
‘i’
. Jol A an i al member oi
the Russian Du s. is reported to have
been assassinated. According to this
port
n-
P
ltevert he was the Vlrllm of A political
ek, murder.
...-oo>--
It is not surprising. says the New
York Amerorml. that Great Britain de-
mands the German nnvy. Recent events
‘p , it was'rlt.nrged. involved
the overthrow of British rule in Initts.
have Irnlily demonstrated how badly
also need: it. 0
'1
doing either and her very repression
made her story all the more Vital and
e.
he came on the staga al‘r‘on't-
er seVeu>)'esr>old son Owen.
mind there has lie
military methods in Ireland. the entire
audience rose to its feet and cheered
her for several minutes.
Practically every seat in the immense
hall was take and several of the
prominent lrlsh people in New York oo-
cupled the ‘boxes.
BAINBRIDGE ttntsr cuarxuani.
Mr. ssinurldgs Colby was that rare
e
5
i
lug of , l1 and women who came
together to nrolest against the terrible
nirorilles oi Isle ‘es and agnlmt
the methods meted out by England to
the men who at that time fought for
the same principles as
taught fol%ihs eternal principles oi
justice and freedom t We did not
H know, he said the full measure
and extent or the rutttlesaneeo. Iya. the
bruultty which I s prs d
suppression 01 that last struggle for
v
libe . .
Continuing. the Cllllirmnn said it was
mshlnxton D
in the an
the great James Russell Lowell. the
poet and pnmphletcer at our Civil War.
0 was asked at one time "how long
u
he thought America would el:ldure."'
‘As long." said he, "as tho spirit at its
founders tontlnnes
thoughtu and i'
ndurt."
..
:5‘
‘ts
o
events that have happened in irelsnd
within the lust sesr. we have got to go
hats, hark in the clssslr period or our
hlstory to nod tus Irue Me and to
g must go sweep-
ing back, my irlsnda, to those classic
days i tab the xstion was born.
those days in which the intent Republic
preparing it ell ror mighty molest
amlu
barked uh n its glorious career In I
selfesovenxlns demorracy. g
THE TRUE VOICE OF‘ ASXERICA.
you would lsnow how Americana
feel iovllrd the Irish patriots 0! today,
you must stud)’ the ll 1’: and utter-
nnees u i one
these pattern Am rt n
r and conduct
xle tor freedom.
The Chairman then said that the true
voice 01 America is poken w en the
eiforts f the English Government to
recent the lndin 2 M s Skehln -
ton in America were shortly and sharp-
ly lruitrlted,'lnd the immigration au-
thorities insisted that the he permit.
And so she tomes, said
the Chairman. and II sacred
torch of liberty in her hand.
r. Colhy then 1-eierred,wlth great
feeling to Mrs. Slteillngton and her lit-
tla son who d in
a line burst of real eloquence, intro-
duced her with the folloving beautiful
0 . .
"My friends, they Corns to us because
America is free “'9 have 9. as to see
and ears with which to hear the truth
and we will know the truth.
America is the home of liberty!
“It is th
3
a should L‘ In
represented. in at v r In
Ista en. 1 Am sure there Are-seven!
y.
lrisllnlen present. Rel: the call
them. ' , the us i G
I-aslllngtoll. rehel; l the nsule er the
Marquis as
Green; in the nume of Alexander Ham-
ilton, who trudged alongside the cannon
as a soldier, putting its shiny muzzle
with his hllnd; in the name of all those
llnd sir ctttze is
these rawreii founders or the greatest
tree mount in history. I ask 3
salvo from the
of welrolne and of truth and of love to
llrs I-‘nnrts Sheehy-Skefhngto .
“My friends, I have the honor of pro-
senting to you new Mrs. Skemngton."
RE. 5IfEFFI,VGTOX‘S LECTURE.
ltlrl. Skemngton, who received a great
ovntton, said she tha
was Iurs it.
She then told of her own intention
to Come to America for some time and
or the planning she had to do to outwit
the authorities.
and
private conversa-
elm Sh
came to
America she would tell all the truth.
She then until she In
“British Mlllurlsm
it." and to tell at her husband’; mur-
icontinued on Page I.)
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