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Vel. XIV., No. 41,
A JOURNAL DEVOTED TO THE CAUSE OF IRISH INDEPENDENCE, IRISH LITERATURE AND THE INTERESTS OF THE IRISH RACE.
Whole No. 735,
NEW YORK, OCTOBER 20, 1917.
” Pntered os second-class meter, Oct. 1. 1908, at the Post Office at
‘Now York, N.Y under the act of Congraes of March 5. 187%.
PRICE FIVE CENTS.
THOMAS ASHE IS LAID
TO REST IN GLASNEVIN :
All Ireland Joins In Paying Magnifice
at And Tender Tribute To The Latest
Martyr Who Was Foully Done To Death In Prison, And Whose Tragic Take
ing Oif Has Aroused The Whole Country As Nothing That Has Happened In
A Gencration—tuge Contingents Of Priests And People Throng To Dublin
To Pay Their Respects To The Dead—Uniformed Volunteers Carry Arms
And March With Fine’ Military Precision—Fuueral Procession One Of The
Most Impressive Sights Ever Witnessed In Dublin And Indicated As Nothing
Else Could The Entire Conversion
: “As “The Ouly Speech Which It
OF A Dead Feniaa.”
Ireland has cangnt her latest martyr
Thomas
other ‘consideration,
y but the epithe
ruthless, removal of every in tre
10 dared assert that Ireland shall
Tor
his spirit
"day above every hill
and valley fn Treland to arouso and in-
¥ fame he people until they put an end
| for r to the overnment that is’ re-
sponstte for his death.
Meantime, while ane, and 2 ones
Car: ts are
ing in store for
The following account of ane funeral,
& which was largor n Parnell’s,
t 4s taken trom the Dublin. Independent
f Octobei
——
. A auctend eet yesterday fn’a
agit ecord tribute ' to
Thames Ashe, spnose death under such
tragle elrcumstances touched the heart
of the country a8 nothing has ‘ the
present generat
Despite the Tact that no spectat.tratn
$ ys,
5 costumes and uniforms, and all wear!
{the Tricolor
| The tong cortege @ took neatly. an hou!
i given point at
ints of view,
ge
g
standing the fact that it wi
Glasnevin Cemetery.
cessionists tool ir and
half to 2 poin 80
fect was the combinational order m
tained throughout—which, Incidentally,
1 the
Me XY PASSING,
8 it appro: the con-
gestion there cea ted a slackening
PS, | by
big cont
y
thousands |dom if ever before
m the most re}
ited.
of the
ef ous
houses log the route, i ‘each instance | 908
residents of the] #2
‘Opo-
from start to
Marching cule. four aoe the pro-| b;
ou
je, and conse quent | m
Of The Country To The Principles Of
Nationality For Which The Martyred Patriot Died—Archbishop Walsh
Represented To Yoice His Profest—Final Volley Fired At Burial
Is Proper To Make Above The Grave
'
side of the-city. This was the case, for
instance, at Blackquiere Bridge.
What th articipating in
the greet procession would have reach-
the sympathizers, throughout
mn given facilities for
travelling by excursion trains, may 3 well
be imegined.
ry, even the most remote parte, were,
however, largely represented. Thess |”
participants arrived by ordinary trains
n Sat yy those arriving
yes-
terday morning. Kerry, the native place
ford set
ceedingly large body, iIkewise “Rosco
mon, Clare, and Kilkenny, all of ‘whieh
latter places have returned Sinn Fein
members of Parliament.’ Wes!
Limerick, _oueen’s County,
Cork, Queenstown, Wexford,
Thurles, ond a
ting
=
‘ellgare,
NOTABLE FEATURES, ~
ture. Never before
memory of a fellow-countryman.
of these travelled long di:
Another remarkable feature was the
presence ¢ of some roan young
have:prom-
inentiy {dentited tnenisetvoe with Sinn
je. attendance of a large section
It able that doaptte all re
cent solltary | orders under tl rence
Ret irilling of contin.
can flags
in
About
or other by every person participating
in the procession, as we!
people amongst the spectators.
flags, were displayed from
draped in
‘The mentors of the Dubin | Fire Bri
gade, te! isplay,
ro in conspicuous fashion the
Sinn Fein colors draped with crepe,
te worthy of note, too, that a big reetion
of the National Volunteers, those wh
p_|had been followers of the
r the leadershij
Moore, and ‘most of the co
tingent wore their uniforms,
SPLENDID ORDERLINESS.
‘The orderliness and respect displayed
fintsh by the immense
gathering, procosstonists and spectators
| alike, was a striking and fitting tribute
Thou-
the military generally were confined to
barracks.
‘After the concluding ceremony
phe it
.—|Glasnevin the people left for the city,
led.
a fumes
Nenagh, | ©
ny other places sent | ¢*
a dozen
. by
The Tricolor was worn in some form | and old-
Redmondite | ™
marel
but,
incoming morning trains were crowded
to the Hmit, and all the roads le:
10 the city were thronged by ped
(man: marched
thirty tnlles) and every mode of vehicle
"ars cove! dust after
long ourneye, cycles, carriages, outside
cara, wagonettes and | rales, gigs, and
tray wereach fully i
noon the various sections had
Lin ned up-at the stations allotted to
Sem one of the largest contingents,
the ‘Transport ers an
Women Workers’ Unton, marching eight
facing Parliament Street. Dublin t trades
bodies at
Wood Quay, and another four thousand
at Werburgh and Bride Streets,
Irtsh Volunteers numbered about nine
thousand le a remarkably smart
and impost the majority
of them
Stephen
numbers being the followers of th
“Officers” ittee”;
al
and
a mBan furnished very large
contingents, and thelr picturesque cos-
added variety and color to the
IMPRESSIVE FUNERAL SCENES.
rere mers,
the con to the hearse, the clergy re-
citing the De Profundis during the re-
moval. Lord Mayor attended Miss
Ashe to a mourniny
‘The windows of the © butidings in the
vicinity, including the vartous munici-
Lord (al
pectators, and af-
to
@ dense mass of people extending in
all directions. All heads were uncover-
ed while it was placed in the hearse.
. GREAT BODY OF PRIESTS.
ance was principally
fous Seaeriy: gathering that filled the
were here and there in
t they were merely lookers-
upon
evidence around, Tricolor “having
"| the additional hae of black, in token of
I carriages
retary, Mr. Foley, T.C., and Al
A
one
Tou ners, e Lusit
striking costumes,
musical combination in the line
eb.
HILKENNY IN THE VAN,
was the first provincial con-
tingent to ateplay its locality in a ban-
nerette borne front, 18 crow
seemed almost inclined to give it a
cheer, but held back, nenereny under
the impression that o
g
place. men 0 atcerwards,
wever, the etence was broken
The men
38
tain points on the route on the Rorthern «
dq contingents
a ot deleg
joints, All
atches a
‘assembling at the ‘eat Po!
d | closed,
iform, ‘brought | ©
The open space in the vicinity of the |™
the | Whom h
to operate | *® “orl
ein ft
sive occasion “ering might be out of harm.
Lieutenant Myers was seated in front,
close of this section came
the Captain's gig, driven by Captain
Purcell. ¥ .
The next item of the procession was
& prominent local one—namely, the St.
soon resumed, and the Kerry
Contingent ame, in for many complt
mentary comments,
hg march continued through une
broken lines of ators atone High
rect, and Thome Strect. In the lat.
ter thoroughfare, in the region of St
Catherine's Church, many heads
red in recollection of the tragic asso-
clations of the spot. Dense crowds
were encountered at Bridg foot Street
id
&
amidst scenes similar to those siready
enacted at the earlier stages of the
route,
te. on tthe Metal Bridge, which was
labelled ” and
guarded by stewar d easy
AK
e} view of the enti re “apectasle presented
a/by the procession was hed by those
ce
ere
a wise precaution to keep peo- | cr
who took up positions on the
stretch of quays terminating with Or-
mond Quay and Bachelor's Walk, where
the
OUNTRY CONTINGENTS.
Longford, Westmeath. snd Castlepol-
re among the
laces which contributed to the
re indicate
nected w
The first of
the cemetery
feached oConnell Bridge.
the procession ret
about this how
SCENES ON CONNELL STREET.
Joining thoroughfares. The v
ity of O'Connell Bridge was
at noon.
(ontinued on Page 7.)
Naming Joseph McGarrity,
‘new or Heard of the
ritten—MoGarrity
Falsehood—Not a Scrap of
Fails in That.
Secretary, Lansing himself has taken
personal charge the campaign
arouse prejudice agatnat Irish. citizens
in the’ interest of England. On October
m the State Depart-
ment another instalment of the seized
documents . which , have een
In cold storage for a. year
half until | Eagiand’s desperate neceaal
ties nded some effort ie ai-
vert ‘tiention from her en of
terror in Ireland wbich has culminate a
of Th Ashe i
s
S
e
George Creel to destroy Judge Cohalan
and to show tha rishmen had
to be paid “German money” for doing
phat they bad been doing all their
‘me whole Irish part of the perform-
in conception and
‘de jen upid
bungling i in ‘cxovution, ir
ment was ex
t in Lot
xecuted by the British Gov-
year
that Irishm: men in
acter
selected te a sabotage for the
Germans in the | tnites States. One man
riend!
joughts were on nobler things: an-
ym he had probably met
jozen, times and a third
seen only once in bis lite
and who had “ited four montht
the alleged date of the proposition,
were sald in Mr. Lansing’s document
0 have m recommend Str
boss the job of breaking up
ition fac-
and to recklessly break the laws
United Ih no Posalbiitty of
resultant good to the Irish cat
an putting in of the
McGarrit ane
names of
Jeremiah
‘botage for
Jos
OLeers Ty as the men to
sec-|the Germans in America 1 etupid | f
did not even know Keat-
tars ‘proper initials, calling him tenn
eating,” and they located him on
Hilcbtean arene where pe never eith:
lived or did bus! this kind of
evidence Mr. Tan Tr? has undertaken
to creat rejudice against
Irtsh Natlonslists that will betp Eng-
ey only show how easy
to fool Mr, Robert Lans
LATEST COCK AND BOLL STORY.
Following is the statement given out
ys Secretary Lana!
MWASHINGTON. “Octobs
O'Leary, on the Recommendation of Sir Roger
~ as Men Who Could Select ‘Others to do Sabotage in the
United States, but Without One Word to Show That They
ven Kner
Diseredited by the Fact That
Several Months at the Time the Alleged Despatch Was
and O'Leary Indignantly Deny
Knowledge of the Scheme and Brand the Charge as a Vile
Was Ever Acted On—Published for the Mere
Helping England to Discredit Her Irish’ Enemies and It
f vert « &
Tuption of trafic.
jat
not BLIN,
the: Sinn Fein
10,4
ated “torther rind
helmets, and bearing the implements of
their life and property-saving functions,
eral Sta were doing in this
LANSINGS LATEST FUTILE ATTACK ON THE IRISH
An Alleged German Foreign Office Despatch to Von Bernstorff
John T, Keating, and Jeremiah
Casement,
Project—The Whole Story Is
Keating Had Been Dead
1
Evidence to Show the Scheme
‘8 Purpose of
country while nominally at peace with
the United States.
He gave to the public, without co
ment as usual ipree sree cablegrams.
They show ‘@ than a year be-
fore eabmerine piracy drove America to
aw Berlin was instructing Ambassa-
yr. Yon Bernetort to arrange the
ple.
struction of Canadian railroads and to
on
is part, was even at thi
date seeking authority to sup
compete ‘n to influence Congres:
e°ts nothing in thi rrenpos. -
ence ‘given out today to show that the
Persons named were awa
onmmendations involving them that had
bee! rman Foreign
Office,
Secretary Lansing'’s statement fol-
we:
s
“The Secretary of State publishes
the following two telegrams from
Ge refgn Office to Count
Captain Boehm, w
(Continued on Page 8.) _
SINN FEIN PRISONERS
ARE ON HUNGER STRIKE.
Joseph MacDonagh and . Other! a: as
Prisoners Suffer, Severely —
Country Wide Protests Against
Foreible Feeding.,
, September
27.—Several of
ave,
he insisted on séministering the last
Rites of the Church. a
when visited
ised permission to see her
‘band.
It {s dented that the prisoners tore
their sheets or interfer in apy way
with their
bed-clot The clothes
removed, the prisoners peing lett
rthelr cells. without, covering,
Lor rd Mayor and ant John, Irwin visited
Mountjoy and on the dangerous condl-
tion of Sean O Briain's bealth being re-
im, it is said that the Lot
proreer AGAINST TMPRISONMEY?
Protests against the imprisonment ot
men recently convicted by cou
martial are being held all over the
(Continued om Page-&)
nge
“It was noticeable that large |”
‘at |Green, John Red’
e of the rec-/{
e
Von | ani
| for
The | Enstand’s professions
Marder Procecdings.
The murder of Thomas Ashe by the
British Government, which Tm
ed ti
is death, was conclusively prov-
ed by the medical testimony at the Cor-
the doctors who testi
the most eminent in Dublin, and they
re all summoned by the Government.
eir testimony, whether given vol:
ntarily or drawn out by Timoth:
Healy's masterly cross-examination,
conclusive er of fore-
{ble feeding, even under ordinary
fact
er bad been eprived of one
ded @ "ped clothes, well as hi
shoes, and obliged to sleep for two cold
ts on the bare floor of his cell with-
any covering at all. This brought
n unexpected visit to Mountjoy Prison
by the Lord Mayor of Dublin, act
panied by one of the “Visiting “justices”
—one of the useless sinecures which
the British Government matntains fa
Ireland at thé €kpense of the Irish Deo}
rd Mayor, accompanied again
by the Visiting . Justice, went at once to
the Castle and reported the terrible
conditions he had found to Mr.
is Chairmen of the Prisons Board, and
gerous proce:
the purvone 6 ‘of b:
the hospital, Instead of in
PROOF OF MURDER COMPLETE.
The testimony of Professor M’W
ney, who made the gxemination ot the
showed @ condition
d shoes and forcing him to sleep on
the bare cell floor without any covering
for two consecutive nights
the marks
01
sand years. But she keeps at it, show-
ine that the low,
maing exactly the same, In spite of all
iD the cl
‘The newspapers all admit that not even
the execution of
May, 1916, evoked such ‘sal indig-
nation fn Ireland. The ee erst, it was
hadm: 'y, Redmondi
ner's Inquest, at which Dublin Castle | }
Be
mond’s son-in-law, sary Alderman Byr
a| den:
us turnover fo the Sin
e
own worst ‘cneiny in
in changii mt
ers immediately after
4 full report of the
as it had
wal “ve found below,
until Monday, October 8.
(From me Dudlin 3
Mr. Thomas
day by the Ci
Byrne, in the
to-day, |W
e Sinn
‘al, and
spectator:
on Sunday, when thi
place to Glasnevin,
tically‘ Packed by
ee
Montes, z cba ne
Geor, ‘oods, Mtch:
Guinness. Michael
Smith, Thom:
H. Turley, James
Cochrane, W. 3.
Several of the jurors ex
Unio:
nel
Mr. Healy, judging
said half of the:
plause) w
fary ot ¢ twenty three,
© Prison authorities,
ted, included tes
Hon tot the jury, and tl
sely thronged with
After Requiem Mass in the
fdral, at toda!
will be removed to the City Hall, where
they will Ifo in state until 1:30 P, 3f,
fw
MR. HEALY AND
Lawyer Protests That It:Is:Prac-
MGutre,
as Walsh, J
fhe Police to summon twenty-three, and.
fro kth
med the
INQUEST PROVES THAT ASHE WAS MURDERED:
Lord Mayor Of Dublin Testifies That On An Unexpected Visit To Mountjoy Prisox :
Re Found Him Lying Oa The Bare Floor Of The Cell, The Bed, Bedclothes
And His Shoes Removed Aud That He fad Passed Two Cold Nights-Cuder {
These Conditions—Reported Facts Immediately To Dublin Castle, But With- .
out Effect—Most Eminent Physicians tn Ircland, Who Examined Ths Body, i
Found Lungs And Heart Affected By This Savage Treatment And Marks-Of }
Yiolence On Face And Neck—Forcible Feeding Under Such Circumstances :
They Pronounced Highly Dangerous—Hunger Strike Resorted To By AU .
The Political Prisoners As Protest Against Being Classed As Criminals— {
Ashe’s Death And The Exposure Brought Thom Victory—Max Green, Chairs 3
man Of The Prisons Board,” Joha Redmond’s Son-li-Law, Directed | Ths
nd Uniontets and brought cea
dou
‘ mounts to foree and ehameecher’
‘ol. before the world,
in
, Bon tar,
proceeded before the ‘hmeral.:
jousned:
THE COROKER'S INQUEST.
independent,
tember 28.)
The inquest on the body of the-late
Ashe was opened yester-
ty Coroner Dr, Ly A,
Mater Hospital.
- PES SS
umber of clergymen,
in leaders—in-
‘Kievicr, Count
De Valera, J.
. pathy was wttneased ght: when”
‘bout twenty howeand persons took
part in the procession accompanying.
the remains from the Mater Hospital to
the route was:
ympathetio
‘ProCathe-
lay, the remains:
iperal wilt-take
: !
THEJURY,
the Castle.
oe, eae ‘were called as. forye
an; James
wel Wal
rtlton, B. “allie Patricic APGuinness,’
pate, BL Mo-
‘Thomas.
obn.Coyne, W.
» Alexander:
sro-well ‘known,
. Healy -sakd:
he appeared tr the * antiece of de-
cea:
nse.
e Coroner explained | that the jsnel:
course was to hav. ‘lve
and not more thi Jonth thews He
had given the ordinary instruction to
¢ Coroner de.