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A JOURNAL OF IRISH NEWS, IRISH OPINION: AND
ed as socond-class matter Ji
Enter
office at Philadelphia, Pa.
under the Act’ of
jan. 8 1919. at the post~
jarch 3, 1879.
English Troops
Mayor of Cork Assassinated.
IRISH
PHILADELPHIA, MARCH
27,
LITERATURE, PUBLISHED IN
SN
\
WN
KUO
1920
Kill Unarmed Citizens
THE INTEREST OF THE
I
UNITED STATES SERATE PASSED
[RIS RESERVATION 10 TREATY
Opposition Senators Display an Utter Lack of Knowledge of
the Subject—Question of Anglo-Irish Relations Held by
Them to Be a Case of Secession—Fallacy of This ‘View ,
Pointed Out—ireland Deeply Involved in the Treaty of
Peace With Germany—trish Reservation a Step Toward
Final Recognition of Ireland.
| sith and pass upon a League of Nae
ee jtions scheme in the sam
TEXT OF THE IRISH i
RESERVATION Treland ‘ involved.
Treland's, case is intimably connected
ty
Following is the text of the |i "ith, the Tie ethos ee oes
Trish reservation to the peace Covenant. And ‘heeafore, quite’
treaty, as adopted by the ||in order, an solutely essen-
3 tial the, Terlaaa’s. interests he safe
United States Senate | im |! wanted in this impo errant matter,
Washington, on Thursday, Senator Phelan, of Cal n-
h 18: Sincinax apologist of President’ Wilkoo,
fare! : championed the oft-repeated excuse put
“In consenting to the rati forward ag to why Ireland was not a
i reaty with || mitted to the Penes Conference. Tn the
fication of ft “On treaty States ||sebate of March 18, he made tlie follow-
g 3 ig. statem
t [dence two
HALT BRITISH SCHEME TO
GRAB SAVINGS BANK FUNDS
Attempt to Put Bill Through
Rhode Island Assembly Permit-
ting Loan of Them
New York, March 22—-idenco of
nections wi
tives of the British banking interests,
<nd had secretl;
Fin eum erat
3)
existence
mibamoge wos ducoverel
offers of the Protestant
Briende 0 of Ireland who were in Prov:
address a mass-
meeting in “favor. of drish Independence.
their teed te Sa the Providence
investi
gud ite real 6
At
News
adheres to the principle of “The Prectdent Ins been criticized in
self-determination and. the
resolution of sympathy with
the expectations of the Irish
people for a government of
fhe subject of-treland in his
Congress communicating, the #
in the teary and corenant chansetven {3
a was petitioned by a inrge number of
Citizene representing, they claim, andy £4
message to
their own choice adopted by || fact, they do represent believe, not
Iss’ than 0,000,000 Trish or those of
the Senate June 6. 1919, and |) re een seo onan Staten He
declares that when such gov- || was well inclined when he went to Paris
to give wright to their words and heed
to their petitions, but when he oe
there he ford, as he fou
ernment is attained by lre-
land. a consummation it is
tain quarters for not having included | Pooh)
tre imparialist, aystem and maintain
of occ} mn in conquered coun-
Een througout the aor
‘The News discovered that Willi
Fortin, ‘Speaker. of the Rhode Taand
Ansembl troduced th at the
EB
Tequest of W.
deat of the Union Trust Company, and
George, tudgy, counsel for, tha, Tar
dustvial 1 ‘Trust of Providence,
i, | to the British Empire and King
n
MEETING TO TAKE ACTION
ON MURDER OF MAYOR
Harry Boland, secretary to
President Eamon De Valera,
of the Republic of Ireland,
will address a rally next Sun-
day evening, at o'clock,
in Knights of Cotumbus Hall.
Thirty-eighth and Market
streets.
This meeting will be an ex-
pression of protest called
forth by the murder of Lord
Mayor MacCurtain, of Cork.
‘he_meeting has been called
by Judge Eugene C. Bonni-
well. It is expected to afford
an opportunity whereby the
eople of Philadelphia may
learn the truth about the cam-
paign murder waged by the
British government against
Ireland.
COURT RECOGNIZES
REPUBLIC OF IRELAND |;
Chicago, March 19.—Patrick
appearing in Naturalization Court tl
morning, not only renounced allegiance
George,
but.also, by order of Tudse Kavanaugh,
he renounced his allegiance to the Re
poblie of Treiaud end Eamon De! Va-
Jera, its president.
‘This ig the first casr on record, at-
torneya say. whore the Trish republic
hes been officially recognized by a
King,
d Tater that
cognition af
by
om rn
nthe Waited States in tie years inter-
g from 1776 to 1783."
Fg | land's: strug!
EXTAA EFFORT FOR LOAN
DURING EASTER WEEK
i Special Drive to Rea Reach Total
Will Be Made in This
Period.
Easter week has beon named by Juige
Engene €, Bonmwell for a determined
eflart to bri
bring to a suecessful Conclusion
the balance ot
med ns Philaetpnag's
yond eertafieutes: of the Re-
K Apul 410. plans
\se-to-house
of
prove tata
funvars of every ‘unsolicited scetion
the city.
The hond cortiicate organiz
Philadelphia, he Sidge James 1
Gorman Wilt he! Spussed ‘ok to" grenter
ort, ail the new social commltne or-
among, the women hiladel-
pia “hand rulers will bevasked to throw
available worker.
ay 2
seription
Si) aga wisle Rendcome sub:
itis" heen repartes
ve
aie certain, that the, sum
be doubled or a inten
dsring. Haste the
rufieanee. of the pened spied, a
appinent to anyone interest
F
le.
Dining the week of April 4-10, everg
aunee of energy abe eorraled
among Treland frinmls will be throwa
mito thie Ward workers who heve
rompteeed Ghsin pwn. tr asked
fo gn Into olin, wards vl ere the ‘rive
ws been neglected or onl;
women of the movement tir sise Bhat
the central — section
ticipated
Whole town will be talking and think:
ing and talking of Ireland during Bas:
fo
prospects.
“We entered this: movement
determit
resonree
Blayiourls. aceomphsh our aim,
refore isso {Ins eal to erers
one in Philadelphia who stands for ib-
| door of
“Houninell is enthusiastic over | b
inj
ji} | coriectly given in tl
Emenee that a policy of wholesste
slaughter of the Trish people by the
British, with repetition throughout Tie-
laud of affairs such as that which took
place at Ammitsar, in today where Brit
ish soldiers fired into a crowd of un-
armed natives until practically every one
in| of the crowd was either dead or wound-
ed. is likely to be adopted within a very
short ume. is found in the news tbat
has revebed this country in the course
of the last few days,
Pispntedes | have told of the murder of
the Lord © * Cork, undoubtedly be
British ogee Priday, of Jayt week. of
the shooting down of a number of per-
gous in ihe streets of Dublin br Hing
ish tivops Monday ni a womai
being anoag those’ killa vat of the
sending out widespread of 1
festly of British origin,
is about to take place at Easter,
A dispatch concerning the killing of
Gord Maror MaeCuriain appenred in
Saturday ‘morning's pape :
rch 20-—Thomas
Gurin Tord Masor of Cork ai
prominent ‘Sinn n Feiner, was shot dead at
1 o'clock this ing.
Othe revolver ‘was fred hy a masked
Dw
a dan men knocked at th
eof the Lord Maser,
Sits MarGurte opened the door and the
hep rushed in
Mome of them held her
Thousands Attend Funeral.
ants ROT, acrpeerning, the funeral
hoped is at hand, it should other stamens. that the work which ia as subsequently ‘earned that Mtr,
heen by the fortunes of war carved out andine i closely allied
mene be admitted as 2 || tor bm selated “outs to othe countries | with "Morgan Company, and otber
momen to the league of na- |} which, by reason of the war, had been | Wall street institutions on more
tion: tho consideration of the peace |grienaly terme with the “Brush Gov-
| conference—thal is, enemy territory, The | ermmon a also learned that an
| conference confined therefore, to interested party, in the legislation was
By PATRICK ©. WALSH those countries which ecersarily ex-|Bodell & Co, bankers, with a branch
. eluded Tread. beeause Ireland was @
‘he one oes feature of the} part of Great B:
debate in Co: ss last week on the Trish ea with Gres at Brita
Feservation. to the ‘Trenty of Pence, is| lies” New States and new goveraments
the utter ignorance of the relations be-| wer ve carved out of enemy terri-
ween Ireland ‘and the British Empire | tory ye"
digplaved by eevtata opposition senators,
iment was that the
pavsage of this pearrvation wonld cominié
the United States to the pnnciple of
Troland. aeenrding te | thelr
e matter: bemg a part of the
Fe Fhe redoubtable Wilt
ed the Sonth in the civil
War, declaring it was a pi e south
call, there atten t
Not in Accord With Facts.
Noboly knows better than Mr. Phelan
that his statement that the Peace Con-
ference only’ concerned itself_with the
Geposition of “enemy ts
fn gecord with, the facts,
of wi
‘was decided by the conference, although
nssia. Was mot ay “ene” country,
Further, the United States has recog
nized the independence of Sintand, which
both terms, in his mdgment, being syn-| country formed a part of the Hussian
eoymons, ‘with hich * interpretation | Empire—one ot the Allied Powers,
many senators agrec ing: termite, Senator referred in
5 5 to
Right Versus Might. , star agent of the Britis
In fact, reading | oven the official roc. | Who Was ré
ord of the debat: not help being
Sruce “with the’ incapacity of certalt
ators to appreciate the asses at
rene, not alone so fav as Ireland is con-
but jn regard to the whole world-
Side question of whstbe er, Right is to
be substituted for Might in the future
dealings ‘of nation with nation. fe
rain
There ar
Phelan’s Fine Phrase
“T had the pleasure within the last
few weeks of ti,
Plunkett, He Is a
posals,
Hor
a cat Irishman, but
7 never took part
Frist politial ‘aay Wreept, when’ he
Was called to preside al a convention
re than one occasion we have
pointed ‘out that there is not the slight-| 2
imilarity between the question of
SSnthers secession and Trish Independ-
foun 1S a oation, one all Treland to determine the question of
B4 aes Sat ent; an £
claest ret cpagland by seversi centuries, |[D9Sed that Troland chould have. fiscal
ler than England by fe control over her affairs, which is
TES of the United Sinfes, and, there- | YEE" essence of sovercigaty, the Gov-
fore, by no stretch of the imagin Crt resected the ing bh
could it be called a natic otter et. Propositions vith which Iam mot
The Difference. famliags but he told me oar tthe home
aa kh . ai, proposed but
ae Seat nover hed 23 ne oe oe Hs | aso, within Ue tas eva week, os, los
Treland. ‘The South never hed_a lan- | howd be Iaughed out Cou am
ove
te did feeland. ‘The South never battled
fox centuries to regain its independent
ie on Fourth Page)
MISSION SUCCESSFUL.
sovereignty As e, When
fea, comes the posalie? There fe none,
DECLARES DE VALERA
those eenatore who wasted so much
March 19.
meat my lust week du their ursguided || tlon by the United States Senate ot
fovts, to yustain Roglaud’s claim to
Trelan tron
bad © the trouble to
ia eon eforehaad 2
relations "hnes would
boa figure. ‘This
refers to senators who howestly oppose
tthe veservation, not to those who aré
With-suceess, Presiden
the Tes
rv
avesite ro Arthin
cunt “aati Brlident of dhe hae
Publin. The eable veus:
about the city. It said
of the
ardly manne:
“ARMY OF REPUBLIC MOURNS DEATH GF MAYOR
Cork, March 21.—Today a proclamation announcing the mur-
der of the Mayor, printed in Engli ish and Gaelic and signed by
Father Dominic, chaplain of the Republican guard, was posted
“With grieved heart I announce to you the death of the lord
mayor, Thomas MacCurtain, commander of the Cork First Brigade
Army of the Republic. The public will observe Monday as a
civil holiday to afford th citizens an opportunity of testifying their
respect to our chief citizen and their horror at the brutal and cow-
in which he was done to death.
move our citi-cns to retaliation or to any unseemly act.”
' Chicago, Mar. 22.—Speaking here today, Eamon de Valera,
President of Ireland, emphatically declared that the British are re-
sponsible for the murder of Mayo: MacCurtain.
“I say, advisedly, with the knowledge I have of the ways of
the English in Dublin Castle, that British ‘thugs murdered the Lord
Mayor of Cork,” the President affirmed.
Let no provocation
ot Jin Providence, pat headquarters in Ni
York,
de ctakamen
will Tey in "evey 6 State
discovery,
aor age quarter wea
But the significa:
was that Similar leglelation ‘ys a
other
troduced it
country
Recalling the re
igh Snanoiers, under the leadershy
Sir George Pais!
every legislature in
bagm
cold of tie opera:
rotn theTreasury at Washin
tothe Ingvlatures of the various States.
wueh to gain, if they win,
Fon mae cording to the Jest available
vomputation of reports of savings banks
there reposes in these institutions in the
Init Sts the comfortable sum of
five billion Jive bundred million dollars
Yn Rhode sland alone the depose in
savings banks have ed $9,000-
SGT ene last ote ponte
‘Phe States. in yentch they, bavg so, far
3
pine ‘Dnglund um should be simi
wilting Sustain nglan tuemnetont Ot Teeland, © We thai
2 Almighty God, we thank the noble
Ireland and the Treaty. . moti u nation, we thank ‘the
other point which the opposition || flends of Freland he a
Fr aie to sustain was that the question || Worked 2, unselfishly for our cause
of Anglodrish relations had nothing to ||. we thaule the heroic dead whese
gece i of Peace with Ger] gin aeton has Boch sal eset
pany. ae ee se ne Should the |! athe ‘principio of. self-deterraination
crave to rere || IS heen formally adopted ia an ‘ine
or digtinet iauer || femmatignal intrumeat, Ireland has
i} been er- placo among the
Th was, a 2 feat mi pase || gnfione ‘by the srentest ation oh
ish ”
tio -enanection' with: thr "Treate4|_ tem aul’
af Beaceswith Germninys.as iris to deal |
banks’ deposits might
Pa
of
cent attempt of Brit:
WONDERS OF THE WORLD
of the newest of, the world's
erty fo lend a hand in. bis {rving hour
to the hans nest God-f
cutizens of the Republie of Trelund,. Mae
it not he said that Ireland's sans and
© daughter in Philadelnbia turaed a deat
adopt our ‘and | interesti
that undoubtedly the, bill wall be aoe
to the| ford
o. piocession 14
len
ed for action,-and corps of flaaie throw
ers,
II—His Lordship, the Fudge,
in an armored automol
lines.of machine Bun a
and French 73's, Ove
of ainph
Killing macerial
T—The rear is bronght up wil
brass bani, Wiese members isle pls
“rap pa Gaze Flag
Bors.”
MYTHEN TOLECTURE -/
New York, 28.—The Trish !
eat
ed
March
AMgthen on Te fnternationalism of the
Trish.” i
"Round “Me, |
ear to x summons in hebalt
auhertain.”
Pull details of the plans, tor the big
drive dming aster — week
chromed i neat week's issu
SLE OF MAN DEFIES..
RULE OF BRITAIN
x dispal
of
teh from Jou
the hilidelph
jean etl
ittont a vronentalien
oe the. Tole
Hand erefnsne to,
Sidal oe oteraciee, wth
ant governor why ix the
the island and British power
old high cost of living is responsible
succeeded a: t, Massachusetts, Prommeeave Pespus, 229 Lexington ave- | ¢ Manx officials must lire and Ma-
Sgusccteot god Californie. New Git, contrary to. iis {Jor General Fre, fieuvonant governor,
fe absurd argument made in behalf | usual cusinn, "ot aoe ‘baring & leoture | raised salaries all arond and promised
of the'mensure by ite spongors in inter: | on the last Sunday of, the month will more, ‘The Ide of Manx save it woul
Slowe with the Providence News io thac| hace'n lecture eu nest’ Sunda evening CL ane ‘mara taxation, ant tbe
‘he present law restricts the securities Baron 26th at 8 o'clock be Dr. Gri | t F Wars, the “represontatyea
in which sa ihnve quer d away and t
Wt be voted mt thew absence:
mestie
a] Phe ot
10. Revolution is)
ic Telend, March 21 —Thousande
in the eity and from the sur-
Founding “county today pasted through
the City Hall, where
:D. shop Cota
Malked in front of the first bor of the
Cone Sinn Fela Volunteers, which nected
asa bodyguard”
e following was in Weduesday’s
Public Ledger:
gnened foday, into, ti pation of
Lord Mayor MucCurtain last: Saturday.
for the next
adduced
Mayor's
house Saturday which he would cuggest
were of the pattern used by
police.
Breton, suelt as are worn
“authorities to produce. the
what men wei
Bagenexs Friday night,”
Soldiers:
ately after the slaying of Tord Mavor
Macurtuin, the dispatel quoted ‘below
shows
ed
when T.
MacCurtain’s home after the murder ta |
sori Pres
tie shooting down’ of Dublin. ente
zeny said:
Man and Woman Slain.
‘Bubhn, Mare
in Dublin ‘inst 1D w
hob ead ‘and “foie” were” ‘serioncly
wounded,
“A woman, Marguret Dowling. 3 du.
dead
sou
a
Servants wit the
was a uidnt ined
athe
of the" Meoldvers, Why wets
ban .
F of woliene who
porn attending a preforinant¢ in
we (Ehewtre Roya
theatre U tracted the attention ee
pinmecou ivibans by thelr gud,
a stendily growing cro}
toward their barracks,
ot Sout Richmond
'gan. a few shots bar
Ene soldiers entered their Dera,
soon reappeared. it ic declared,
several vollere. in which the Tataln
occurre
“Anotirer account sare the soldierk,
about 300 in number, paraded the streets
bat
RELAN
in Streets of Dublin.
1g * fordens
b
ose identity is unknown to the
Tri
“Cork, March 28-—An inquest was! n
the house immedi-| Bre
running debate on the murder of | fanee of gins.
|
wd followed ude death,
‘they approached the sieiity |
street the Stig be-|
ben hed
I
REPUBLIC OF IRELAND
PRICE FIVE CENTS.
RISING ALLEGED TO BE IMPENDING
Reports That Insurrection Is About to Take Place Are Part of
_ Preparation by British for More Slaughter—Sinn Fein
Lord Mayor of Cork Murdered by British—Onslaught by
Military Upon Unarmed Crowd in Dublin Streets.
inging, jostling passer
ring dons aod smashing ee
about 9
bam
Ate
parading through Marcourt
street the soldiers
Jeturned toward thelr
% fired
the hess ‘tf the cond, by whose orders
a5 unkn
Report Impending “Rising,
‘The Hable Ledger hus been partion
larly iudustiions in
poits‘of the anpendine * This
Lathan ny ein of “tne eloae eons
tection “hits evn th
Bir Tondlon Pane
nes!
‘ihe ‘: Heh would go the
1 the militare an
ciries
at
fad tn the
t fiom the Ls
Carl
W.
‘hed under
—Vrouner Lloyd
vofusal in the
nny Ue eisenss the (Gore
ani
a te “hue ae
Tod Man Cork have strensthened
Tonion's mmpreseiany t
hi
speeches mt
Ben areater pre
than a tortmet
Troops Are Ready.
Eh repubiest army is
hiuch. better iinied. an red than
i ae believed to, bo at thie moment, it
would have. httl co against the
of the emp
Fores
+ a dispate
delpnmn Tree. vt Pa
“Tom tone 1
Clement
fram the Phila-
March 19:
adav!.—Aller
wr
sede, Taher
whe Lowden
on:
ine
- and wt local tisin
ne att iinerpnols Manchos-
her the nave
arms and
ng swhet her
on fe nase that the ter
ae age plane
ned visiie
AM tis to ctagieseting fot the one
sisuaht the win wed Teich peg:
ple” Heulenie’ of Ue ition i
als aned 1 do statement. inthe
Past
Macpherson.
{Emon Nt Roter cing to
this paper
i Flneare bringing abont the hideous
of reconquering Tselael be
and ithe
Tord Mayor MacCurtnin, of Cur, start) yw sight.”
" 1S vectorda:
Tondow March @ —An unknosa wom
oon 330)
not give rise to a suspicion there purnose jan. Deter cars, has heen
wos to destre ae evi ence, found in the at Lives ‘There
“An ASS dispatch deating | wre anjun
~ on her head,
The Lew ite patter base detain
fda man im connestien with the murder
Bala Woght. near Treests,
ie girl's bode was
the road.
sf Lords reversed the jvdg-
Court of Appeal, and ros
coaxiction for murder a
Bead. the Hyde wil
at
Won rata thease
fete Tund Chan had
sonnet! that vor th gudlement
ol the Hose af Lords, it was nal
tended Lo have the “Capital sentence: ca
ea
‘The Cpart of Appeal had reduced to
‘S) pent” servitude the “sentence °
RESOLUTION WITHDRAWN |
Loughrea ‘Town Commission hare &x-
sro | pun punged ohh ghee ininutes a resolution of
ndevaning the Easter
we . moto was .adepted
to allow i it to jemain as & record against.
the then membera,