The Irish Volunteer - Volume 2 - Number 40 by An Phoblacht

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EDITED BY EOIN;- MAC NEILL.-. Vol. 2.

No. 40

(New Series).

.SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 11; 1915.

what was the meaning of it, a~d was it going to be anot~t::r firing out. It turned out so. The Irish Party had and has a programme and a mandate· wliich, ·t hough not absol~tely definite, · The Gaelic League i ~ getting lectured by is clearly enoug~ de~ned within certain limits. people who are uneasy about politics. The The Irish electorate, on a celebrated o~casion, Gaelic League is not wide and free enough for in _oppositi~n to the Party leader-s -who • now these counseilors. The Unionist Irislz limes demand to be exeh1pt not merely from opposi· has taken a hand at the lecturing. So have the tion but from criticis_m, and to be empowered Live-on-Hope Home Rulers. When did the In"slt to settle the National deniand in private conferTimes ever give a lecture on wide and free ence with those whole-souled Home Rulers, the tolerance to its own party ? If it wants a clean members of the late Home Rule Cabinet.:.... the street, let it begin sweeping at its own door. - factious, critica_l, cranky, croaky, mischiefmakAnd what about the Live-on-Hopes? None of ing Mrs. Gummidges who constitute the. Irish these people can venture to · bring any definite electorate laid down the law to Mr. Redmond charge against the Gaelic League, which remains that no mere scheme of glorified Local Governwhat it has always been-a National organisa- ment was to be accepted, and Mr. Redmond tion, not a party organisation. The lecturers of had to go back and t~ll the Liberal Governthe Gaelic League wo~ld like to see its work _ ment, and the Liberal Government had to take watered down to ling uistics. The Gaelic League the law from Mr. Redmond's masters-the Irish is for Irish as the National language, in the electorate. On the other hand) the Irish elecspirit of Davis, who said, "a nation must guard torate _has fixed no ma ximum, ~ ut ha·s the right its language as it would guard its territories" ; to be consulted about the main lines of any in the spirit of Douglas Hyde, who, :speaking as settlement that is proposed.

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President of the Gaelic League, has d~clared a hundred times th;;_tt _his aim and the League's aim is :'the ?e-Anglicisation of lreland.''

The Live-on-Hope people have aiso a bit of the street in front of their own premises that might be attended to before they carry their brooms to- the ·Gaelic League. _ Last week I asked . why Mr. Murnaghan, of Omagh, was shelved ·in f;,ivour of a gnitleman whose chief distinction is that he has picked up one of the , H's that ar~- d_ropped _s b freely on the other si_d e of the w~ter. How many others have there b~en whose _p resence w::is tiot tolerated in the temple of wide ;ind free tolerance? Mr. Tim Healy may have been hard for flesh and blood · to bear, e$pecially when flesh a11d blood_ was . bearing Lord Rosebery. Bl1t ·:-vhy was the ban : extended to all Mr. - He~rly ' s kith and kin? How do the tolerance lecturers explain the ostracising of T. D. Sullivan? . They are anxious ' about the. open door o(th; :~~~li~ -Leag~e. Is the other door_to be open only when somebody who doe_s not\e~.- eye f~r . ~y_e ~ith Mr~ T. P. O'C911nor. i~ tq qe k_i~ked into the street ?

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_I re';1,tru·ber weil.\vhen: Mr:-Dillon's Zli-ff",;;rtuce--

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ti1::s is no hetter established than the Divine right of kings A majority can be tyran:iical, and its tyranny can · be of a very oppressive kind The French Secularists, of whom Premier Viviani is now the head, have -atted \vith as little regard for liberty as any despot. There is nothing sacred in the power of fifty-orte men over forty-nin e·- not even in the power of ninety-nine men over one. That the de~ision of a majority sh_o uld hold goo~ is merely a principle of order, not of liberty or justice. Political majorities, if they are sane, must recognise that they are not infallible, and that minorities have a right to exist, and liberties that should be respected._ For the life of me, I cannot understand _that there is any _reasonexcept, perhaps, personal reasons, that ought to be squashed-why the Irish Party should not consist pf a majority that favoured the Dillon idea and a minority that favoured the O'Brien idea, or vz"ce versa. _ To insist on . uniformity is to tranwle on liberty. Besides being_ tyrannic~ !, it is insane, for . it is a policy that 1s perpetually defeating itself.

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The O 'Brien-_Dillon- feud becomes com p li

g reat deal of diversity of opinion among the cated when we see that Mr. Redmond and Mr. Irish elect0rate, and there ought to be room Dillon haye outflanked Mr. O'Brien by the for much diversity of opinion among their sharp ~nd sudden curve, and are now Superrepresentatives; just as there ought tu bt room, Conciliationists. There is joy in Heaven over tolerance, and full liberty within the ·Gaelic the repent~nt sinner, but Mr. O'Brien does not League for any man or woman who aims at re101ce. It would appear that each side thinks securing the position of Irish as the National Conciliati"on i_s tqe right thing, · provided that it language and at the de-Anglicisation of Ireland. is not advocated by the other side. T~en, of The vast majority .o f -Gaelic Leagu~rs have course, it- is factionism. "Orthodoxy is my always stood up for that liberty, and will always doxy, heterodoxy is · the other man's doxy." maintain and respect it. But is the same sort Patriotism "is my faction, and faction is the of liberty respected in the hish Party ? If not, other man's patriotism. Mr. O'Brien says- _ why not? What exactly has been gained by " Mr. Redmond and his friends are now all the -policy of setting up orthodoxy \vithin sighing for a settl~men-t - by consent, and all orthodoxy? Why are Mr. O'Brien and his their energy is cpnfined to"jockeyiI]g the All-for · _ adherents outside? I dcm't. beliL ve :n Mr. -- Ireland-er_s out of_~ny credit for it.'' : That must O'Brien's pol-icy of conciliatiqn , in , th_e ciicum- be in tbe Freeman, whoever reads it. So both stances ; but if Mr. O'Brien was in the Gaelic sides are claiming the credit f0r the sett,lement League and proposed -to. conciliate the enemies by consent, to the amusement- of the .Kaiser's of the Irish Jangu;age, to confer witJ-( them, and guest in the Cabmet. Would it n~t be well to to : win their- .con;~nt-'to -somethi-ng favou rable, get something first, and thei1 fig~t about the whatever ~ might - tlJ_in~ of.his pro.sp_ects, I credit fr)r it?. Now th~t -·we a,re· all allies, it should . certainly ne-~.-'et imagine that : his pro- ..: ough"t b~ i ' tiriie _.f~-r 'ari<!ther Buckingp"osaJs: sliqu1d bring him under: the ban ~ of the > ham fal~c~- -coriferen~'e. _If I\{T:· 0' Brien had Gaelic League. · onl)_'. _been _. ther~ the )a·s~ "_ti~~~- Sir ~dward would . . . ...never . . have . . . . . said . ···what ··- . he , , .did. say. .-

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-'.. with his ()ld co~ua?t:·_i n ·apn? . began' to~ dtvelop. ..... . . ; ~ 1'G: , : - :. ij; J . ; ,,_-1..· 1: ' . M[ . ~ Djllon · ope~ed _the _case _i!l , publi_c at__a _ Majority rule is . one thing, and co111pubo1 y -Mr.- 0'B-nen: turns: from : h-is -sorrowful conmeeting in K.ilrea, o.n \he __ banks _of the B.<tnn. uniformity. is another. -· Th-e;~ ·is-·n~tbln~ ·s-acr-~·d ! t~mpiation of Mr. Redmj~d' to: make a solem11 I rem ember asking Mr. Patrick White, M.P. , i1k majo~i~y :nile. The Di v~ ne right of maj od- . .)

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tH£ IRISH VOLUNTEER.

Saturday, September iith, i915.

appeal to the young men of Ireland.• He gives his reason :-"The fear that the Constitutional

was made known to her- that she is outside of But I would remind l\Ir. O'Brien th.at the the Constitution. There can be no Constitu· young men took up the defence of Ireland and ii.gainst the movement mighr go t<? pie_ces altogether seeme d tiona.I.i-sm that is not based on free citizenship, of Ireland's const~tutional franchi~.e . · ·· · .. a. n. cf. . ' . ' \ .here is no free · cjtizensh.ip in Irela. l 'id . .that . , anti-copslitt.itional con . spiracy as ' far back a's · . , to him on·e 0f th'e.. m?st alarming s')rmptoms of is no~::based on the readiness of men to place . October, 19 I 3, and that th·ey knew nothing . ' . the_~it~ation." Tl'\a~<sounds . very like what thei t .,Jlves in peril. . about. the war wi'tlfGermany until August; 1914, . Mr~J)j_ilon w~uld s~y, Perhaps .advan.ci11g age · · · ·1 ·· . .:· .*· * * but · that pet ween these dates they did k110w is the.se· . for.mer. . comrades together I ,;.·1·11 h . b• :.t. -s omething about an Arms Proclamation, ab©tlt , Mr.· .O 'Brien· , ":,· answer Mr. O'Brien's.- r etonc a ou -~"' . . ~f ,, ·-' .t . b t· .· a!!aJ_·n:· ;· Why does .not. have the · ~ " ,,. G c ·f ·d ,, H . seizures 10n, a ou 1oo.:Jng to ermany 1or .r~e om. : · · ; · lk b !di , e says . .o. arms · an"1 . .. ammurn . . a. ca-rgo .' col{rage of hi.s conv1c.t1o_ns and,; lwa o . Y up h G' h t · f of arms announceiil m trre press to be'on its wa:y ·· · t e erman pe0p1e 11ave not t e 1eas scraP. o "· . · . · ;;:' . to ~ i\1\ D}~lpn and conciliate, confer, -and freedoi-J The solemnity of his appeal t~ ~he from .C/er:,~!ny to Irel~B~ f~r. the pu~pose Of coqs ·~ f ~Kt.h _hirn? Mt. O'Brie_n says. " nothing . .: ·~· ·f ·I· . · d:. · . · t h db h d1sfranch1~mgo'lrehmd and k1ll.rng Home Rule,. . , _young:,m·eno re 1·a n is.no en. ance y sue .. · . :· ·:-.c .·•.. , .: ·., . . ... ·: · . · · co e !-ii.r;tl'.i _ er. from. his mind ·than ·to b.reak · ;.. · 'I · ' fi ~ f f d · without mter· · · a statement. 1 ie , rst e 1ement o ree om 1s of the clue am val of that cargo . up·_·.,.~ -.:~. .. . ~.-~. ~1.1ond'i.te part.y until .something bette~"::.· the righ~ ·: · and of. its distribution without inter· · ~o live. In Mr. O'Brien's li(etime, one f~rence; . half . of \he rural population of Ir'eland has· . fer-ence; of the Curragh Camp demonstrations, co 1lcf'be put in its place." Now that them nothing in dispute except who is to have the been wiped out, and the other half has b_ee1!_ of an English Volunteer force being organised cred'it- for doing what neither party has doiie, ·· systematically plund-ered ·of · ~~~It.h en'augh te "to - invade Ireland to kill Home Rule, of a ' " · · ·· secur:i\:ig-:a···:settlement 15y consent, why should , bu'y · 0· ut thei'r fees· 1·m· p'le nJany 'ti' mes over. ·I· military expedition against the ·Irish Volunteers ·will not aslf' whether th·is has- happerled to the at CJ.ontaFf,. and : of the deaths at Bachelors they':ffrit~}o:in hands? 'the young men 6flte· Walk . .. Mr. O'Brien is aware that during all L h · · d h d ·11 b' German people, but I will take the case of the . J d a·! \i :·:v 1,1 0,.,, av~ JOI~e . an s, wi not 0 Ject. ,· those mqnths the young men of Ireland had conquered peoples attached to Germany by Me. a. 11.1.v.hi.l.e, Mr. 0. 'Brien had better address his ·· · th f · t t " t' ~ b t '1t]1· e am es no wn a ou · a war w force, the pec;ples of Prussian Poland, Schleswig- not to the Coa,lition. Holstein and Has it happened Germany. He himself had . not as yet disMinis·t~y,. · ~f 1vhich one. part .established the . to any of these·? Let us pass on to . Austria. covered that the Liberals whom he attacked, ar;r1~d · \r~l~nteer 'movement in Irel~nd, while Hungary is ' n'o longer subject to Austria, as she and the Tories whom he hoped to conciliate, approvingly. Let hi.m once . was. During her subjection, did . she were the devoted champions of the world's · '"11 , w . h o .h <l:S pu bl"_1c1Y approve d suffer •depopulatibn and · plundering in any 11.berty. He knows well that during that time .,\rre a dd. r~.. ss. ,,M r.' · B:·

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al~;~ .G;~for Co~~t.ituti01~alism

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t\~~9.th~; p~;t:.);oked ~n

o~ ~i~il Serv~p~s being a.rme_ d Volunteers, on c ~ pd~tipl1_ th~t th~y are c_o nsenting parties to_the coe·rcion of Ulster nationalistsotherwise they i.:. . : ' <•· , '• , ··. ' mt,1.s t' be s~~ked, ie.a ve Ireland, or go to jail. L~})1i1~1~addre~s. Dr. .s tarki:e .a~d the Board of Imperial ,Equeati 9n, who approve of National T¥a~,h~~~<b'ei~g··-~~ 1~~ed Volunteers on the sa~e cq.i;di.:;i~n.~' ,i~'.''.M ,· ··.;.:·. ni~r~ll~otherwise they al?() ' ' · · · m_u~i.: ~0~ ·s\l~k·!';~ ~I;<;! .their places filled by o~her~ · ...·... , ,. . ·. . · · w.h o ,wi).l, giye real National .eduqtlion , .to Iris~ cl~(J~~~r · Whli<;'!, th~~~-- emin~nt . authori_t·i~s, st\lf'3smen, judges,,, and bishop~ approve of the ri~~ ...a~ a : stib~~it~1~: for . tiie' ballot-box, M.r o;.l:l{i.~n ·<;~n;10.t :~~p~c"t tj1e yo~ng men to <Jc~.~Pl hiin . as the 'icne wise man in all Ireland:-. .. ......,,.. ' : • ·'

degree comparable to what Ireland has suffered and still suffers? ·Let us • pass on to Turkey. Gladstone roused Bri~ain to indignation against the Turkish regime in.the Balkan States. Did those States lose half their population under the Turk in Gladstone's time? We used to hear hard things said about Russia, which held F~nlarid ~nd Poland in subjection. Will Mr~ O'Brien institute a statistical comparison betw«~ en the state of these nations under Russian rule and the state of Ireland under' British rule? Aredhe , Irish people fools that they ~hould be

asked :.to listen to .the solemn 'tomfoolery of these veterans of rhetoric ? I repeat here what I ._said the other day in Tyrone, that. Ireland would be better under .a government of Irish tramps than Ul;ide r any government she c~n ·X· * expect from the Imperial Parliainent-ancl that Let us hear Mr. O' Brieri's ·appeal. ".l;le is a better reason than iv! ~. O ' B~ien's for not would appeal to those young me11 in the most scrapping the con ,titutional politicians he desolemn words he could command, not in a tit nounces and himself along with them, I have ofi.mpatience fo thw\v· constitutional action to not the slightest doµbt that an .Irish legislature th:e winds merely becauS'e'. :·o ne particular iing ot made up of Mr. O'Bri(;'!n and. his friends, ~~r. Parlia(nentary "politi'&ia1'is -'bave' gone polit.ically Dillon and his friends, and Sir Ed~ard Carson bank~upt, and above all riot to throw away the and his friends-free from E nglish interference last 'chance of Hoine Rule in any shape for our · . -would make · Ireland prosperou:; and res· time by fooking fo Germany for that freedom pected. the .. smallest scrap of whi~h the Kaiser has ·* * denied to his own German . people." As a · "Looking to ·Ger'rnany for · freedom l " yo1p~g man, not yet . fifty years old, I meet Mr, Perhaps f shall some day be spared the rieces· · O'Brien's solemn appeal with an equally solemn sity of repeatirig ·that, if ever Germany becomes answer. The constitutional movement in. Ire· the a-rbiter of Ire.land's freedom, on that day land depends on the free exercise of the fran· every single man of Qur tmperial patriots, from chise. The franchise 1i•as annihilated in Ireland B,u shmills .to Bantry, will be LJUnd "loyal," by by .an unconstitutional iuovement, armed by ' the same i 11sti net and the same logic that makes Impefiallsr politici'atis, backed up by· Imperialist them "loy.11 " at . present. patties· and the Imperia1ist Press, by powerful influences in the Br_itish Army and Navy, and b~· power.fol influences at Co·urt. A year and a 1ol-Scol n.1 m -mil.c.n Ring half ago the Liberal Party not unwillingly sur· Rmn · 6 · :sCtMn.c.c · Irish ·College. · rendere~ to that unconstitutipnal mpvt:ment, ' 1915. apd COIIJpelled the Irish Constitutional farty,to . If you want lo learn Irish. . sµrr~nde~ t6 it. Mr. O_ ' Brien aqd his adherents If you want to gel a thorough grip of the Language · in the shortest' possible timedissented, but of what avail was their constitu· - , lf 'you w_ant a happy, healthy holiday tfonal· dissent? They, too, were disfranchised. RING IS YOUR PLACE; Their votes ·and the votes 'behind them were TEACHERS. VERY SPECIAL reduced to a mockery. What is the sense of Ring is the best place for attention is gi'\·en to conversation. Teachers, I.ts teaching . . Beginners have .a special tutor talking with ·fear and alarri1 ' at this hour about methods are renowned. alw:tys with them. the constitutional ·movement going to pieces? SPLENDID ACCOl\UIODATION. The time for ,fear and alarm, if there is ·ever a time for them , was when Ireland was .disfran· chised and her constitutional repres~9tatives PROSPECTUS _ON APPLICATION TO were ti ed ha nd and fo ot ; ra ther, I should say, pJ.'.'QR0.15 0 C-O.'OLO., when the real stat; ~f Ireland si1~ce the Union RING, l! UNGAR V,\N , CO. WATERFORD, ~

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the young men of lrelai:id were looking to Ireland- and to Ireland alone-for freedom .

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On the day of the first V ulunteer enrolment meeting in Cork I read Mr. O'Brien's paper which he has now suppressed. · I found that Mr. O'Brien had chosen the occasion to fill his paper wi:th columns of · matter intended ·to discredit the Irisli Volunteer movement. It did not occur to him then that the young men. of Ireland ·, were looking to Gerrnany, .but he .con· demned them al\ the s1me. Then, as now, the only s~ort of arms he approved of were· foli;leq . arms--at a time when his constitti.tional votes no less tha;1 I\I~. Redmond's were being nullified. Apparently it has not yet got into l\ir. O'Brien's head that Sir Edward Carson has rendered heland the inestimable service of proving to all the world that the British Constitution in Ireland · is a · hypocritical sham. Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall, etcetera. The young men adhere to the self-same policy and pro· grarn1~1e as they adopted in Cork that evening, and if there was no Germany and no war, they w0 uid still .be solemnly ap1)ealed to by dis· fra11chised Mr. O'Brien and they would go on with their own policy and programme.

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Mr. O'Brien like the people he · calls "Par· liamentary 'bunglers," is harping on ,·, the labours of the past thir1y years,'' and .the inexperience of the younger generati6;1, · What is this but the usual fogeyism of" what is t:he world coming to ? " Our Paihamentary veterans .a.re evidentiy beginning to fe I oldish. They are disputing with each other about the credit for what they hope to do, and ar~ afraid that the young feather heads of forty and fifty will. do something rash. Really it is the old gentlemen. themselves that are in all the hurry. The young men . remembe; the words of Davis : Bravely watch and wisel'y wait, Toil, join and educate ; Man is Master of his fate ; We'll have our own again. ·Eor:N MACNEILL.

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Saturday - Septembet r 1th, - 1915.

THE tft·I SH VOLUNTEER .

OJI" tlic the Act ·1·s· _Adm1"n1"stered. , . want lxc n pa ssed Liy dk l ' re iich Censo r'. " of· taste d isp layed in the art icles be .made H"W

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W e print helow a report of some proceedings und er the Defe ~ ce ~.f the R ealm Act in

Public ·Prosecutions, aske d that a reasonabl e ·sum be a llowed ·for costs .

England.

Mr. D esquesne r, for the defence, · objected H e sa id the p rop rie tors o f the . news1;apers \\'e re atta cked . i.i1 resp ect to the ir ne wspaper, a nd they · ha d ·ucceedecl. Costs had been in· cur red o n both s ides, a nd the equitab) e· thi i1:g was th a t on th is p oint there s houl ~l be no · ·order .

The report will be found in the

T imes of August 2ith .

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no comment. Sir William Cobbem, for the Directo r of

Our readers will be able to contrast the proced ure in England and in Ire land for themselves . The); will note ' with pleast1re that whil e in England such cases are delayed - waiting for the cumbersome machinery of the co urts to be got moving, in this more businesslike countr y the military dispose of such trifl es as a weekly paper with a stroke of the ir Ye ry autocratic pens. It does not matter here if a paper is " an official o rgan of a large section o f the community " - it is only in England th a t such tri fles are considered . The proprietors of no Iri sh pape rs have been summoned " to show cause why ·the police should no t destroy" their property. The police in Irela nd are much too thorough to waste valuable time that way, No ! These me thods are all right for a d ull people like the Engli sh who need to be p a mpered in the cotton w()()l o f ~ivic liberty. But among the quick-witted Irish such devices are not to be thought of. Goel bless the officials and the ir relations , And keep us in o ur proper stations.

D-EFENCE OF THE REALM ACT.

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The Sti p~ndi~ry Mag istrnte co ncu\'t·cd , nnrl no o rde r :1s to .«)s ts was n<1cl0.

Pride of Race.

There a re sins we f eel a re unforgiv a ble, and 'o ne th at stands o ut is that meanness of soul that ad mits itself infe ri o r to the e ne my. A ma n who · has opposed us with the vi go ur o f a man we ca n some time hope to find · ag reement ' '. ith on the basis of ma ll hood an I freedom ; but one who will no t look for eq ua lit'y -because he is too slavish to rise to- if---he is defin iteiy beneath us. H e fawns oti his conque ror, ~nd we want some name, a ny' na me, that w~ll distinguish us from him. -'f hat i why we of the o ld tradition take a fie rce prid e in the name, "\V il d Iri sh," given l:o . our

fathe rs by · the

garrison of the English P a le, because "Vlil d Irish " stood for th: unconquered and unconquerable people of ,this cou'ntry; and rnore, it

show cause why certain documents eizecl upon the ir premises by the police; and alleged to contain statements likely to prejudice the British Governme nt's relations with foreign Powers and the recruiting and discipline of 1·he British Army, should not be destroyed. At the conclusion of the case, the Salford Stipendiary directed that the copies of the

Labour L eader whi ch had been seized by the police be restored to the owners: The pamphlets seized by the police he ordered shoul d be destroyed. No o rde r was made as to costs. In anno u1wing his decision, the Magis trate sa id he w:1 s :1 skcd to make a n order for the destruction of the cop ies of the Labour L eader of August 5th, because they conta ined an

Our place,_ then, must be with the fl~s t, if we do .not take om: old p-lace_ as tlte first._ The pride of the Gael-Jet us .cultivate it -: and le t us keep the wor<'I Ga.el as the link wi th o ut: he rita.ge; · but gi\·e it 'i ts ~ im1)le -me~;1~i 1~0--

Irishman. 1' he succession to 0ur line is in th e spi·rit, a nd ev:e ry. man wh,o Jo,·es the name Iri shman a1~rl give~ hi s a llegianre· to the freerbm and righ'ts of -Ireland is the true inherit-or of th e pri\-ileges -a ncl: ri ghts o f the Ga el. You

TERENCE

The hear ing of summonses unde r the D efence

L eader, was res umed yesterday at Salford. The summonses called upon the de fendants to

But we have learn ed . o ur lesson 1~ow, .and jt is a lesson not me re ly for now, but for the fu ture .

will know the man worthy to be called Jri shm:in ·by his ha.ughty rejec tion of alien rul e a nd hi s Sjl iendirl pride o f the Gael.

of the R ealm Act against owne rs of premi ses in Blackfriars Street, Salford, occupied by the National L abour Press as offices of the L abour

' that l.ost ln: laml lc llq 10r:1rily , tv"".'"'tW- Qi11d:

. excess of con f-ide n.ce is ai wa ys \;1~{-lgei-(:iij~ \~)1'~ 1 deal in o- with .a subtle and treache r:ous· e nem y.

stood also for th e., wl~ole-hearted conteri1pt b)j -O ur people of the men of the Engli sh Palel The men of thtt'Ga_e l knew from their bards, and tory-telle rs, a nd la w-makers, of the a ntiquit y of their line a nd the glory o f the ir achieve men t, _ and they sco rned these new upstarts who came with no tradition and inspirecl only by greed . The. Gael ha l something 't6 be pro ud of , and you can always know h im by: ·hi s

spl -ndicl pride of race. And those others who

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fawn on th e up sta rt and cringe to the ·pe tt)~ at 4 o'cloek p.m. authorities of the hour, you ca n always know Speakers representative of National Opini'on are beiqg them to be alien or degenerate . L et us g ive invited from all over Ireland. up wail ing · that there are a. fe w .amongst us : there are degene rates in every Janel . And le t us cultirnte p rid e of raoe'. An d 1rith the best o f us that ·pride of rn rc ncerls to be st im\il::itcd a.nd mad:c to riirry- ils message to friend and

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The History of the Crossmaglen Conspiracy. Bv ONE

DIRECTLY COGNISA NT.

( Continued.) From the time the Forster Coercion Act of 188 1 came into operation there had been nothing in the Crossmaglen distri ct in the shape of crime o r outrage- -nothing , a t least,

which could in any way be attributed to L a nd decided to hold a collection in aid of the League agita tion . On the night, howe ver , of Defence of Ireland Fund. The collection will the 24th J a nua ry, 1882 , shots we re fired over be held in every district, and will begin on . the hou se of Mrs. K elly of C rie vekeeran, a Saturday, 2nd October, and conclude on tenant on the Re id estate living about half a Sunday, roth Octo~er, 1915. mile from Crossmaglen police ba rrack , a nd The money subscribed to this · fund in each q uite convenient to the spot where Maul a verer district \vill be applied to the arming and miliwas murdered on the 23rd May, 1850. On the tary training of the Irish Vol.unteers of that Reid estate , in J i1 nuary , 1882 , there was some district. trouble, the tena nts seekin g for a. reduction of In order to give everyone an opportunity of rent, which, as already seen, was afterward-; subscribing, house-to-house collections are to conceded, and withholding p ayment until a be undertaken by the various companies, and, An unfounded with the permission of the. local· clergy, collec- settlement was a rrived at. report .was sta rted by a local bailiffnot, howtions are to be made-at the church doors. ever, the bailiff of the esta te, but one who will The va.rious com.p anies are, therefore, directed to take immediate steps to have this soon ap pear again on ·the scene- that Mrs. decision of the Executive Committee carried K ell y was fa lse to. the othe r tenants, i1 nd into effect. The members of each comp:rny l1Ctr:iying Lhem. N o one believed the report, will nominate fi ve of their numbt::r (to be called comin g p ~ r t icu la rl y from the sourre ifcl icl. T he foll owing rleclarations and sworn the Company Collection Committee), whose depositions, which we re for wa rded to Ea rl duty it shall be to arrange fOT the company Spene. e r, t·hen Lorrl Lieutenant of Ireland , hy collection and appoint (from among their numAlfred Webb, Esq ., M.P ., in October, 1884, ber) a treasurer, who shall receive all monies will now folly expl ain the nature o:f thi s .b ogus collected by the company and who shall forward all monies so received, with a correct , return thereof; to the Treasurer of the Irish Volunteers, at Headquarters, within one week of the date assigned for the closing of the collection, on the forms supplied from Headquarters.

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p risoners was fi rst being prepared fo r the Ho u ~e of Commons, whose attention , as we shall see, it freciuently occupied aft erwa rds. T, P eggy K e! l y of Crievekeeran , ciecla re as foll ows : I a m a widow a nd a ten.a nt on the R eid E sta te. I reme mber the month of J anua ry , 1882. Two policeme n (na mes given) came to my house, a nd asked if I h ad been threatened on the Sund ay night previous. Nothing of the kind had occurred, and I told the m . so . They still insisted that the thing had hap pened, one of them alleging that with anothe r poli C',eman he haci heen in concealment and s:iw me n approach my house a nd he:i rd Lhe m use threa tening a nd angry words on the street or at the door. T hey wanted me to sign a p aper saying th at something of t]1e kin ~l had occurred, a nd that I desired to haYe poli ce protec tion or somethin g to tha t ef(ect. I refu sed to sign a ny paper. A few ni ghts a f ter this, shots we re fi red over my house, :ind we were much te rrifi ed, as the re were none but wo men a bout the p lace. The shols were fired from a car. And next- day I lea rned the na mes .of the two men who I was/ told fired the shots, a nd a lso the na me of th ca r-d ri ver. I tolrl the facts, a nd gave the na mes to the po l ice, a \so- to me mbe rs of . the L a nd Lei1g t1e. I a m prepared to p rove above facts at :i n y en<Juiry that may be institu ted. H ere is the affidavit of the car-dri ver , swo rn a t Crnssmaglen, on the 26th Ap ril , 1884, before Thomas Morri s, commi ss io ne r of affi.d a vit s :1, J ohn Mag uire of Glassd rummondahy , Co. Armagh , make oath a nd say: I remember the yea r i 882-. In the commencement of it I re membe r d riving N . N. ( two names here given) from Crossmag len to Castlebl ayney, a nd back to Crossmaglen by Culloville . I remember when they were about threeq ua rters of a mile from Crossmaglen, one of them took a revolver from the o the r (na mes given) and fired three shots with it . I t wi1.S just as we p::issecl :tvlrs. K elly's of CrieYekeeran . We p asse.d two - policeme n between tha t a nd C rossmaglen. It was abot1 t eight o'clock a t night. On the 23rd April , 1884 , P eter M'Kenna of Crievekeera n swears in the sa me way as fo llows : I remember in the winter of 188 1-2 hav ing heard tha t the police went to the house of Mrs. Peggy K ell y of Cri.evekeeran Hill , :incl asked was there an y threa t<> ning lang ui1ge used to her on the Sunday ni ght p revious, and that when she said there was not, the poli ce maintained the re was. I reme mber there was a gener al report a mong the neighbours tha t I would be arrested on the susp icion of having threatened her, bu t I never threatened her or anyone else . I only live about te n perches from Mrs. K elly's house . [ remembe r a ni ght aho ut the time of the :ihoYC re port , ::i rn r passerl h i-, :inrl sho ts were fire<l off the 0 1r whik We are a" exclusively "IRISH · FIRM" emptoyin« only IRISH LABOUR. All garments made to order in our own workshops. EXTENSIVE STOCK to select from, bought for CASH from best IRISH MANUm:°AOTURERS.

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outrage . D ecb ra t1on of Mrs. Ke Hy herself, made 1 and signed in the presence of three witnesses (John Neligan, 1\fan•ger), ' on the r 8th September , 1883. Thi!'I was at the . 4 CAPEL STREET. DUBLIN, time when the case of the. · Cros maglen and ISO Upper George's St., K·incstown.

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Saturday, September r Ith . 1915. passing 1 etween our houses. Owen M'N ulty told me, thaL same night, Lh:Lt the ear passe I him on the road, that t11·0 men (names given) were on it, that the police were on the road, anrl that one of the men who were on the car jumped off it at the Crossmaglen police ba rrack and went into the · barrack. Deposition of Bryan M'Nulty, sworn at Crossmaglen before Thomas Morris, commissioner of affidavits, on the 21st April, ·1884: I remember a night in the winter of 1881-2, I was coming to Crossmaglen between eight and nine o'clock at night. My cousin, Owen M'Nully was with me. We hea rd a car coming behind us,_ :ind a number of shots fired off the car. The sh~ts were fired as the car had passed Peggy Kelly's of Crievekeeran Hill, and at the time the shots were fired we were about 80 perches before the car. We had only proceeded a little dis ta nce further when we met two policemen and told them the shots were fired off the car. When speaking to the policemen the car passed us, and we were only a fow perches from the Crossmaglen barrack a t the time. T saw one of the men jump off ~he ca r and go into the barrack. There was only, as far as I could see, \hree on the car, but the car drove so rapidly past I could not be sure. My companion told me who two of those on the car were (names given). I had myself recognised them, but could not be sure. Thi s is corroborated by Owen M'Nulty, who says :· I remember corning to Crossmagl en on a night of the winter of 188i -2 in company w·1th Bryan M'Nulty. When we were a little less than a quarter of a mile from Crossmaglen, we heard shots fired about Mrs. Kelly's of Crievekeeran Hill. A little after a car, driving rapidly from where the shots were fired, passed us on the road very near Crossmaglen. Two (names given) were on the car. Constable Gartland and Sub-Constable Dempsey we re on the road at the time, and enquired of me \vho fired the shots. The transaction took pl ace abo ut forty perches from Lhe house of Mr. Thoma Murphy., uncle of Michael Watters, with whom young Watter:; l iYecl; and it was about the time of his arrest. Watters was arrested on· the second night or third morning after the shooting. One of the . two pe·rsons on the car- out 0 1i thi s shoot ing expedition~was then bailiff on Lhe Ball Estate. H e wa a County Clare man, ha d been a detective in F enian times , and wn s . now a n ex-head-constable _on pension . He is long since _dead. The other was a landlord in bi s own locality, and shortly after this wa s honoured and entrusted by Dublin Castl e with the ju ·ticeship of the peace for his county . As thi s bogu outrage was well known to have been committed for the purpose of having c·oercion .introduced into the district, the fa cts a ncl circumstnnces :is nhmre staled, wi1'11 n::imes of 1\'itnesses to iwm·e thC' s:tme, we re, long pre,·ious to these cle1 ositions . :ind <11Cchral' ions, lorw:ird Prl the 1·ery rl'i1y after .1he. occurrence I'<> thP Chief' Serrci:n;· in Duhlin C:1,;LI<' :-111.-J 10 Mr. P:irneil for f uture use in Parli :tn 1.cnt. The Devine family kcp l n l:1 rge s11op nnd publ ic-house :it Creggnn, about three-q uart ers of a mile also frorn Crn~smag l en on what wn s known as the Newry roarl. About the time of the bogu s outrage at Mrs. K.elly's this ~ouse, too, was attacked by ni ght. The windows,

THE IRISH VOLUNTEER. window-cases , and fanlights were completely smashed, a ucU lhe doors of the shop and residence. Dozens of stones, many of them we ighing eight or ten pounds, were flung into the parlour and the sitting-rooms, and particul arly into Lhe bedrooms where the inmates were sleeping. ·No shots were fired, evidently because this might rouse some of the neighbours who lived close by . It happened that there was nobody in the house thi s night but two girls and an o ld man; so that they could make no res istance· whateYer, but concea led themse lves in -a safe comp artme nt whe nce at times they were ahl e to. di scern the attacker. The altack lastccl from a l'°ut .11 o'clock at . night until nca-r two in the morning, and ceased only on the approach of some cars on · their way from the neighbourhood of Crossmaglen to the market of Newry. When visited by the police and others next cl ay, the place seemed a veritable wreck, the floors of the rooms, the bed rooms especially, being strewn with the debris of the demolished windows, the smashed looking-glasses and mirrors, and the broken furniture, . and with the stones and other mi ss iles, mostly short bl ocks of sticks, ·that had heen flung in, some of whi ch were fo und in the beds whe re the inm ates usuall y lay. Thi s seemed: a case of indubitable moonlighting, and some of the local pol ice authorities; who were so much interested ii1 such things. sought to make the most of it. Two of them- one a Protes tant, the othe r ii Catholic--went to the P arish Priest, _fl:n,d tol(l him that they had information from tlre Skyhill and Silverbridge. police barracks, that some of the moonlighters who bad wrecked the house had com·e 'on car.s by wa)' of the B~l\smfl!'' and Silverbridge roads, which converged a t Creggan; but that both parties had left the cars at some distance from the place, and proceeded on foot to an old unoccupied house, whence, with others, they had issued for the attack. They begged the Parish Priest to warn hi s parishioners against this moonli ghting

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5 business. . His answer, frowever', · :to».ooth of them was that, for many reasons, lie)i!~e1grnve doubts about stories of this kind:;;~G~c~iise: he could not understand how it was that they had failed to trace· any of the cul1)fits, seeing "that they kne\v so much about their movements and doings; and that nobody could believe the thing was done out of ill-feeling or enmity to the Devines, as they had never injured any one, but for the purpose of blackening the locality. He, furthermore, caused enquiries to be . made at the Skyhill and Silverbridge barracks, and found there that the whole story of the moonlighter$ on cars. was a fabri cation .·* The author of the moonlighting a.Rd its object soon became ·\vell known in the locality; and, as in the Kelly or Crievekeeran case, the facts were immediately reported. to the Chief Secretary in Dublin Castle, as a pol ice protected outrage; the object of making the report being, of course, to hold the author.ities, when the time came, responsible for these crimes. Nothing however was clone, nor could any satisfact ion be obtained on such subjects in tfie House of Commons. Some of the members of the local constabulary, however, not being involved: in what was going on, and being indignant at it, yet a~raicl or powerless to move themselves, gave the hint that all this that was going on at Crossmaglen was the . work of .two or three mem bers of their force; who were ·playing a n occult and lawless game for _higher authorities, and that the Count)' Inspector in Armagh, who had no part in it, should be This . was done, and communicated with. action had to be taken in the matter against the the . bailiff or assistant bailiff on one of . properties already referred to. The evidence prov~ng his guilt could not be questioned. But what was the result? what was the punishment? A fine of 2 / 6 and oosts by the Crossmaglen bench of magistrates ! A good many Dther things, however, resulted from this case. Among ?thers, it was now discovered-a thing which became public and patent afterwards-that whatev~r secret plot was on foot was limited to the Sub-Inspectoral '' Without, as the reports of the trials show, attempting to produce any p~oof or evid ence fo r it, or having any evidence or proof whatever of it, Mr. Murphy-Fent down specially as counsel from Dublin Castle-made the following false and unfounded statement at the trials in Belfast :- " I believe that over and over again the clergyman of thal neighbourhood (Crossmagl en) warned hi s unfortunate Aock to guard against the terrible gulf that was yawning: before them when they entered into secret societies of this kind. " Now the fact was that th e cl ergyman of Crossmaglen never spoke a word of th e kind to his flock; nor, for lwo reasons, would he allow anyone else to do so. His ~easons were-first, that there were no such soci eties in his parish ; second, that if a priest dropped even an ungua.rded word on the subject from the pulpit, Dublin Castle myrmidons would _ be capable ·of turning it into anything frnm a 'Ribbon lodge to a gunpowder plot. He used'afterwards to <JUOte lhese words of this unprincipled lawyer as a proof of th e lying an<l scoundrelly ways of Dublin Castle officialdom, showing from the full context how falsely and foully thi s Dublin Castle renegade trie.d to make him repre.sent his pious and exemplary people as a band of murderers and assassin s. Th e full text of Murphy's infamous speech on t hi s part of his subject is too iohg for reproducLion, but m:>y be seen in th e Belfa st papers of 22nrl March, 1883.

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6 pulicc d i~trict of Newlownbamillo11, and that the whole thing was being manip.ulated from Dublin Castle through occult and illegitimate channel s and agencies operating mainly through the Crossmaglen police barrack. The part be ing played by the local Sub-Inspector himself could not yet be known for ce rtai n; that · came afterwards. This case also put a stop to police-protected outrages; so that, for years, Crossmaglen remained free from anything of the kind, one of the most crimeless and peaceful districts on earth. And this fact made the advocates of the Crossmaglen prisoners in the House of Commons in r883 , i884, 1885, and particularly in 1888, invincible, and enabled them to expose the infamous misdeeds of Dublin Castle and its agents, as· such things hacll never been exposed before. These exposures however beincr ' ' ·o piecemeal, it is now only, .when compacted, that their fuH enormity will be revealed .

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was the touchstone, the real test as to whether their hearts beat true to the ir native Janel; or were they still the dupes of des ig ning sectar.ianism and of selfish landlord ism? To win them to thei r side in the contest, and thus partially at least break up the L and League, everything possible, part icularl y by endeavouring to excite sectarian and old party p rejudices, was now clone, or attempted, by the landlords and their allies. Their efforts, howe1·er, had no app reciable results. The Coronershi p polling station fo r Crossmaglen was then, in the early eighties of _ the last century, at Newtownhamilton, in a more or Jess anti-national dis trict, six miles from Crossmaglen. On the morning of the polling , a long line of crowded ca rs , sixty or seventy in all , left Crossmaglen, carrying every Nevertheless, for tbe present, they had two L and League elector of the district, Protestant bogus outrages; and however bogus they and Catholic, to record their votes for the Irish might be at Crossmaglen, they were quite good Nationalist, who, largely in conseq uence, was enough-as no truth could get through-at returned triumphantly, far at the head of the Dublin Castle when they got there. So that poll. With their cars decked in green, and there were soon six suspects arrested and in ja il waving laurel boughs themselves, the Crossmafrom the Crossmaglen police district or the glen electors had entered Newtownhamilton in County Monaghan district immediately adjoin- the morning, singing " God Save Ireland " and ing it, the whole thing, however, being manipu- "A Nation Once Again," so that when national lated through the Crossmaglen barrack, for the victory crowned the day the result and the police and police authorities of the other whole scene loomed as ominously for landlorddistrict had little hesitation in denouncing the ism and the sectarian strife and bitterness of whole business as a palpable fratid, as far as the past as even Burnam Wood itself marching on Dunsinane. Things had been bad enough they could discern.· before, but it was this last scene now that, in So far these arrests, with what we have the eyes of Dublin Castle and the landlords, -already seen, may be regarded as mainly the effects of mere landlord greed and rapacity filled to overflowing the cup of iniquity on the acting through Dublin Castle and its occult part of the Crossmaglen Leaguers. They were age ncies . But the dread or rather the bitter- rebels and Fenians now as well as French ness of the landlord and as endancy party at . revolutionists and communists. But the Land Leaguers being as yet not only seeing themselves losing all their old political influence a nd power had much also to do with unconquerable but unassailable, new artifices them. At this period there had occurred a and new agencies, or, as we would say in these vacancy in the Coronership of S uth Armagh, war times, new munitions and new allies, had and, heretofore, this position, without a single to be requisitioned to bring Crossmaglen to clue break or exception, had been in every corner submission. This therefore brings us to the foundation of Ulster a political perquisite of the Cathollc and the real origin of the Dublin Castle and or Protestant Whig, or of the Landlord and Tory Ascendancy. parties. These two old la ndlord "Crossmaglen Conspiracy." pa1;ties had already -canvassed over and over again every elector in the entire district of So11th Armagh. 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Organising Cll. Dub;:i Glencullen and Tallaght are the latest districts in the County D ublin to fall into line . A mee ting was held ·in the former place on Sunday, 22nd August, at 4 p.m., under the presidency of Seosamh Mac Cathmhaoil, and "·as addressed by The O'Rahilly a~1d the Director of Recruiting. Over forty recruits joined after the meeting, and were drilled by Captain Padraic O'Riain and Lieu.tenant Liam Tannam. Drill now takes piece each Sunday at 4 p.m.; the men fall in _at the Gle11cullen New recruits can ·· join at each cro -roads. parade. It is expected that residents in Enniskerry, Sandyford, and_ district will join this Company. Tallaght was organised on Sunday, 29th August. Lieutenant Tannam presided, and the meeting was add ressed by O'Rahilly and Lieutenant Cosgrave. As in Glencullen, a large number joined after the meeting, and they were drilled 01~ the spot by Lieutenant Tannam and P adraic O'Raffeny. The Volunteers then fonried in column of route, and marched through the district by Tallaght and Balrothery. H eadquarters are anxious to complete the organisation of County Dublin. Sympathisers wi th the mm-ement living in the county area are asked to communicate with the Direc tor of Recruiting, I.V., 2 D awson Street.

rraining in lafantry Attack.

THE -IRtSH VOLl:JN,T EER

1915.

The · followiug system w ts followeJ with gvvcl results by the Volunteers attending the Muustet Training Camp, for _the purpose of training the men in the·proper manner of crossing the wui1tty towards a defensive position. A point of direction was indi cated. for the entire company, and the original -deployment twk place on a fai~·ly extended front: Prominent lai1dmarks were pointed out for the purpose of indicating the limits..-of greatest extension to the flanks. This was to keef! the entire command. within appro!{imately. the frontage ·it would· occupy" in battle. The point of direction was a considerablt'._ distance off, and care was taken to insist that the rate of advance should not be · hurried, but should correspond to service conditions. Observation of the manner of advance was carried on by a half dozen of picked men sent forwarcl to observe the different stages of. the advance. . These observers did not act as if they were hostile scouts or aq outlined defending force: they si!Dp-ly took post wherev~r _t hey, had the best ·facilities to observe the ground-sometimes standing up on banks, using field-glasses, &c. this, of course, was a: fa r more exacting test for the advancing force than any they would be subjected to. in actual fighting . The reports of the ·observers were very ·useful for the correetion of mistakes in the adv·aace. The attacking force consisted of three sec· tions, ea'.ch ~of whid1 was commanded by an officer with. the actuai r_a nk of ca,ptaiq attending tb:e ca rn]J. A genera:! in \lication of the measures

lu be taken wa:; giveu, and then a signal given for a simultaneou:; advance, the leader of each ·ection L>eing left to the use of his own discretipn in deciding on the measures for advance . Contact between the three a ttacking sec tions was maintained by a directing officer moving from one to another and preventing any one from moving ahead and getting isolated or dropping back · out of · touch-in short, his function was to co-ordinate the advance. Full option was allowed the section commanders as to formations ; use of cover, rate of advance at each stage: and many valuable lessons were gained. Evide11tly the exercise was not to be regarded as in any way exemplifying war conditions except in respect of the time allotted. But the enforced slowness, the care in working forward under cover, the great need for contact in the attack-all these potl'its were emphasised in a possibly more effective way than would have been po sible if the exercise had been conducted on the same lines as an ordinary manceuvTe operation.

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There· took place at, the Galty Camp competitions in tent-pitching and tent-striking. It was found on these occasions that not only was the work clone much more· quickly, but it was done much better and more tidily. The tent-pitching entailed the following points: taking interval, · running up the tent, spreading the ground-sheet in front of the tent with kits neatly placed on it, and standing to attention in front of the tent . ~ The winners were Capt. O'Connell, Sergt. O'Copnell, and Private O'Riordan, all of the Cabirciveen Corps. The tent-striking meant taking out i>acks, striking and folding the tent and ground-sheet, and having tent in bag, ground-sheet, pole, guy-rope, and pegs all together ready for inspection. It was won by Capt. Fahy (Dublin), Private Davis (Dublin); and Private Kennedy (Cahirciveen).

the -bridge fle w into the air, both squadron~ quickly disappeared in the darkness. In S]Jile of a zealous pursuit from the enem.y, they succeeded in getting safely back to their own t_roops. " This bold stroke produced a sort of panic in the Russian headquarters . Kuropatkin became so anxious about his rear communications that, besides the Frontier Guards, which were meant for this duty, he ordered an infantry brigade and tbe whole of the division of Don Cossacks to the north for the defence of the railway line. "This brave deed, therefore, of the two squadrons rendered useless during the decisive battle about 8,ooo of the best trOOJ>S ·of the enemy. " When we realise that two squadrons on service and hard worked would scarcely number more than 2 50 sabres at the highest we get a more perfect idea of the actual value of the work of the J apanese horsemen . Many points in the actual carrying out of the raid deserve notice : the silent and secret nature of the advance, the feigned attack to divert the enemy's attention from the matter in hand, and the entrusting of the real work of demolition to a few picked men. Finally, observe how the raiders eventually made their escape-though this was an entirely secondary matter : the detachment had accomplished its mission, and in that case it mattered little whether a single man belonging to it ever got back.

~ry o.f .the Galtee Cam_p. 1· BY

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Saturday, August 21 ~ t-The men, muste1~ing forty strong, fell in at Limerick Junction about 8-30 p. m., and set out for the camp, which had l>een pitched earlier in the day at Galbally by three Mitchelstown' Volunteers whom the Quartermaster had " .commandeered" on their way to join the main body . The cycling section reached can1p at ro-45, ~nd the infantry came up an hour later. 'fea was ready for the men, and the men were ready for the tea. The men were assigned to their tents; guards for the night '~ere appoin,ted; orde.E:lies Mod~l were told off for the next day; and, haying put their "houses " in order, the camp turned . ~Although the operation described below was in- to rest, if not to sleep ! actually canied out by cavalry, it will serve a It should be mentioned ~hat the loc.a l Corp::> useful purpose by indicating the type of of Irish Volunteers, headed by a fife and drum operation that in different circumstances might band, marched out to meet us, and the welcome_ be more suitably carried out by cyclists. The the people of Galbally gave us would please operation was so well carried out in all respects_ an Emmet or a Tone, and do any Irishman's that it might serve as a perfect model. heart good. In these days of " H ome R ule " Shortly befo~e the battle of Mukden two on the Statute Book," and the "Small Japanese squadrons succeeded in getting to the Nationalities" in France and the Dardanelles, rear of the Russians, and I>artly blowing up the people of. Galbally have not forgotten the rail way bridge of J untschuling, which was Ireland, and they never will, ,because every protected by fortifications. inch of the country around proclaims aloud, . " Resting by day and marching by night, " It is a !<ind worth fighting for !" It is a land . this weak raiding force succeeded in pressing forward quite close to the object without being perceived. Here ·they dismounted to fire in Groups! Groups-! Groups! order to attract the attention of the garrison at KEOGH BROS., Ltd., . , . the bridge-head; while a few specially selected men, in spite of the drifting ice, succeeded. in reaching the middle arch of the Lower 'Dorset Strcet3 :Dubhn, .· . bridge, where they l ~id the charge. As this Phone 2902. · exploded, and a great part of the roadway of

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