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±n a case 0£ undoubted necessity, commits a breach of discipline," and deserves punishment. When a Volunteer is carrying his arms, or wear~ng his uniform, The Irish Volunteers· o:ffer a New or part-uniform, or part-uniform 'authorYear's greeting to their mother Ireland . ised by his officers, he is under' discipline, They tell her that the ~ord they have · a:nd no sort of monkeying or irresponsible given her will not be .taken b~ck. T~ey separate action on _h is part should be will keep on making themselves more allowed to go uncensured .. By the same efficient in her service and more capable token, I liear some complaints of bad of doing the duty they have undertaken care of arms by individval Volunteerstowal·ds her at whatever time she calls rifl.es, etc., kept with the action s-pring on them to do · it. They . also wish a in tension, or with foul barrels, and so happy New Year and a happy future to OIL Every officer is 'responsible for the all the people ·of Ireland, both those who p:roper care of weapons by the meh under ha.ve stood by_ them and befriended them him, :illd inspection of arms sliould be made as frequently as may be found pracand those who have not. • • • ticable. They send the· same friendly greetings • • • and wish the same .blessings to all the Another· gpod service has been done by children of E ire who dwell beyond the the police in some places and deserves to seas and are mindful of their motherland. be recognised. When active recruiting They ask the prayers of all their brothers for ·the Volunteers has been in progress, and sisters in I reland and abroad, that the police, no doubt acting under Mr. they may fulfil their duty according to Birrellls instructions, have gone about the ancient rules of prudence, justice, telling ·y0ung men or their relatives that fortitude, and temperance : the· Ii.{sh Volunteers are sev.erely frowned upon by the benign Government, and • • • The sense of discipline and duty grows that it might b.e better for· the young slowly in a volunteer body and in a men to lrnep away from them . I have . country where law for ages bas been been telling people the same thingmade the enemy and oppressor of the young men who are afraid of lawless people and of justice. I heard the other intimidation had be_tter take no risks, day about the case of a Volunteer who, ;a nd if their relatives think that the in the gaiety of his heart, fired a shot young men should look to their own selfrom his rifl e in .public. He was. sum- fish interests and the rdevil take the moned by the police before a magistrate . country, it is well they should be put to and fined a small sum . I have. had to - the test. · I commend Mr. Birrell for expose. before now the . gross misconduct h avmg · · t't ms i u t ed th.~s £orm o£ preli"mi·of pohce officeTS, law offl_cers, and magis- nary examrna · t.ion . · rn · pa.t n·0 t i·sm . trates . That is no pleasant , task . I · • * • could heartily wish that all Irishmen who Mr . Redmond told the Imperial Parliaare in the service of the unrightful Go- ment on December 21st that the thought vernment of Ireland would at least re- of what was happening·· and might hap.,, fuse at all costs to do any plainly dis- pen at Gallipoli "had been for some honourable .. action and to make them- weeks past something· like a- nightmare ." selves the willing tools of anti-Irish poli- Uneasy lies the head that makes a politicians in power. But in this case I have tical bolster of the lives of men . Mr. the pleasure of congratulating the police Redmond's nightmare is a sign of grace. and the magistrate, whoever they may The Gallipoli :r;etirement will not bring be, on having b~en in a position to do peace to his pillow . what the officers of the Volunteers must • do, to enforce discipline . The Volunt eer Mr. Redmond "'.ent on -to speak on anwho fires n; s4,ot without -orders, except other matter. "H~ would state his per-

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sonal views on compulsion. H e was content to ta.ke the phrase the P rime Minis- · ter used last week, and be prepar ed to say .t hat he ·would stic.k at nothing that was calculated to e:ffect their purpose· and end this war (cheers) . That was the view, he was certain, of the people of Ireland." W here did Mr>. R edmond get mandate or authority for this utterance? Now that he has declared himself, will he venture to go before any free ·and open audience, like the meeting b.eld recently in tne Man.sion H ouse, and ask for man: date and authority? we have h'~ard' :on fifty occasions the rant of "stabb.ing Mr. Redmond in the bac~:'' I do not wish to see the violent language of · faction .established .as a. feature . of Irish politics, and it is enough td say' plainly that ':Wir. R edmond's ·.f '. stick~a:t-nothing '' declarat ion is not "' the view of the people of Ireland" or of any~ considerable. section of the people of Irelan'd .

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Mr . R edmond ·procee.ds :_ "He was not convinced that the compufs~on ·of any class bf the pe0ple 0£ this co,untry was necessary to ~nd the war or was calculated to lead .to that r esult . This was not ai questio1 n1of pr'i.ncip·le1but of expediency, of necessity, and ,if it .w as proved that it was necessary·, to end the war, so far as he was concerned the case was settled . Bu!t he dlidl not thii.n1k it was necessary, and· '~e ' was convinced that they could prove it was not necessary. On the con- · tra'.ry, he believed that the in.troduction of compulsion unde1r' the1conditions of the momenit would have the contr ary e:ffect. W ith. the man' who 'wouJd say he would rathei· lose the war than have compulsioll:", he' h!1.d no sympathy at all, and nobody had . . But the onus of proving the necessity rested with those who advocated comp'ulsion . , H e w~s: con,.vincecf it would be disastrous, and ' if it was. proposed under .present circunJ.i' stances and .conditions he - fo r · one· would oppose ifby every. mea:qs in ' his powe;. · . . . F or these reasons' heI said tG the • • " P rime Minister and th.e Governm.en't --and in this '. he spoke , for all his cQlleagues· from ,I reland- that in,· the .exisilllg . c.i r· '

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the constitutional enactment of Home Rule. That was militarism and a little more. It was an aggravated kind of militarism that the most war-fevered E"ngllsh patriot does not venture to charge a.gainst Prussia.

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• • • XII. DERRY- DERRY. Those who have compelled Mr . RedNo other place in County Derry can • * * mond to surrender at stage after stage with . Derry City in importance compare Sir Edward Carson spoke after Mr. can take no m~aning out of his words but from a military point of v.iew. It is a and before Mr .. Dillon. · Sir R edmond that they will compel him to surrender sea.port of very considerable importance, Edward Carson has some experience in on this point also if they so desire. :S:e and has a ship-building yard and dock the art of convincing Mr. Redmond, and "is not convinced," but "if it was accommodation.. There is an important began the task afresh with a hardly proved" . ! They have already learned how to convince Mr. Redmond. hidden threat : "I do not know why my road bridge across the Foyle connecting "The conditions of the moment," "the hon. and learned countryman introduecd the Counties of Donegal and Derry; and I on the eastern bank of the river there is present circumstances,'' as he a.nd they · this s·u bject to-day at all! road communication with Coleraine, hope the hon. and learned member for well know, are certain to change ; and Toomebridge, Omagh, and intermediate Waterford did not mean to throw out in Mr. R edmond carefully kept open a way places, like Limavady and Stra.ba.ne. On advanqe that there would be any difficulof retreat by saying nothing at all about ties in this house or in Ireland in relathe western. bank there. are roads to th.e sort of proof that would "convince " tion to a question of this kind." different parts of Donegal. Derry is also him or the sort of conditions and circum• • • a terminusof two lines of railway: that stances that would enable him to make Sir Edward Carson is out in search for from Belfast by Antrim-Coleraine, a.nd up another .str;:i.tegic retirement with in- a policy at present. He is not quite so considerable loss, if the losses during the popular in Ulster as he was some time that from Porta,down by Dungannon and Omagh- the two lines being separated by campaign beforehand are to be ignored. a.go. It is n eedless to inquire why. He . the central expanse of the Sperrin Moun• • • recognises that he is an Irishman, ·when tains. A light railway runs from BunIt is the mind of the Irish. people that in the Westminster Parliament he calls crana to Letterkenny. matters in this compulsion intrigue, not Mr. R edmond his fellow-countryman . I the forcible feeble pronouncements of will offer him a policy. Ireland, includMr. Redmond, and this fact, too, is well XIII. DONEGAL-LIFFORD. ing Ulster, is now threatened with known to the compulsionists both of the Lifford is a very small town-nothing further depopulation and economic ruin . political and of the militarist school. J_.et him consider how to avert that dan- like the largest in Donegal, and in immeThe only reason for quoting Mr. Redger a·n d take action accordingly, · disre- diate importance·· is . entirely overmond · is to show the sort of lam'e ntable garding other political interests as he shadowed by its next neighbour, Straindecision, of carelessness about Irish knows how to disregard them . Jf he bane, just over the River Foyle, in opinion, and of want of trust in Ireland does so, he ma.y find himself the states- Tyrone . But Lifford is important bethat have made him the instrument of a man of a Nation, and leave Mr. Redmond cause it is the only way into County set of British statesmen and have brought a seat in the House of Lords . Whether Donegal-all the railways that t~p that to its present plight the policy entrusted h e is man enoligh or Irishman enough to county converge on Lifford. The r eason to him by his Irish supporters. The comfor this is that the land of Dqne.gal con·achieve this, I confess I do not know . pulsionist policy is a deliberate piece of • • • sists of a set of parallel mountain chains political trickery ion the part of the more At all even ts he laid himself pp en to running roughly from south-west to audacious section of the Brit1sh Oli- an effective answer, and he got it from north-east,, and the .p asses across these garchy. Mr. Dillon, who spoke later in Mr. Dillon, who said: "He felt it to be chains are few and far between. The the discussion, came very ne'.a r to an ex- his duty to warn the Government that roads to different parts of the county also posure of the fraud . · He practically chal- conscription t.hey '"i'Ol1ld not tolerate in branch out from Lifford: the only exceplenged the Gov~rnment to declare what Irelnnd. Sir Edward Carson had got up tions of b.ny consequence are the roads they · proposed to do with the four to answer for Ireland, but the right hon. near Ballyshannon and Derry, and these millions of men enlisted under the pre- gentleman knew perfectly well that his are at the extreme ends of the county. sent "voluntary" system . The Under- o;wn pa1rt of I r·eiiand was 01p·posed just as Secretary for W ar, Mr. As qui th' s muoh to conscription as weir·ei the1 oither XIV. DOWN- NEWRY. :nephew, recognised the challenge, and p,air ts." 'l'he value of this answer lies in Newry is a place that is n.ot now so interrupted with an answer that was no its elaborate truth, which makes it worth . answer. The true answer is that com- more ·than columns of "ifs" and ·" buts" important relatively from the military point of view as it was before the conpulsi.on ' means snaffling the democracy and shilly-shally reservations. struction of the Irish railway system, • with a view to what may happen,, not • * When Mr. Dillon said, "Conscription because it is not on the main line between during the war but after the war . we ~ill not tolerate {n Ireland,'' he Dublin and Belfast-only a branch line .•, Mr. Dillon will not . claim me as his spoke the mind of the Irish Nation, not r unning to it . There is also a line to obsequious follower, but I am bound in the hypothetical reflexion of the mind of Green.ore, on Carlingford Lough, which fa imess to say that on this oocasion, so the British Prime Minister. His declara- is a cross-channel port. Small ships can far .as he dealt with militarist compul- tion was received with "loud chee-rs,'' also come up to N e·w ry itself, and the sion, as it might be applied to Ireland, which did not greet the in-and-out de- Newry Canal connects with Portadown, he spoke like a man ·and an Irishman and claration of his leader, Mr . Redmond. Lough Neagh, -and so on to Belfast. But he did not spea.k like Mr. Redmond. We may be sure that the cheers included the main importance of Newry lies in its "Do not let this country,'' he said, "be those of the Irish Party, who must have situation on the main Dublin-Belfast drawn into this .m ilitarism." Mr. Dillon listened to Mr. R edmond's earlier words road, which there runs through a moun·knows how far militarism has go.n e al- with extreme uneasiness . Mr. Redmond . ta.in defile . From Newry also roads diverge ready . . H e knows who ,were at the back will learn one of these days that bis atti- to· different parts 0£ th south of County of the "Ci>:il W ar" threat, at the back tude has ceased to command any respect Down, and another road r uns due west, of the Curragh threat, and at the back among the Irish public. with branches into the well-tilled CounEorn MAc N ErLL of the threat to use the army to overbear ties of Armagh and Monaghan. -

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X V. DUBLIN-HOWTH . 'l'l.te Hill of Howth is not actually a military position of importance, but is ca.pable of being made such . If properly equipped with powerful coast batteries it would by itself go far to make Dublin impregnable . Heavy guns on Howth would be able to engage and defeat a ;hostile fleet out of r ange of Dublin, which would thus be in no danger of navil bomba1:dment. Moreover, the forts on Howth by reason of their great command- ove'r 500 · feet would be largely safeguarded from the guns of the ships, which latter, on the other hand, could be sunk by the plunging fir e of the batteries on the height. Again, the shores of the pr~montory are so precipitous that no attempt at landing would have any chance of success in case it was designed to rush the forts . :Finally, lighter batteries sighted on the reverse slope of the hill would be in a position to shiver by their e~filade fire any attempt at a landing on the coast from Howth right away up to Rush. The existing electric tram line up to the summit admits 0£ convenient development for the transport of stores of all kinds from the bottom. . ' . XVI. ·. FER MANACH- ENNI S· KI L LEN. The Jacobite War affords an instructive example of the importance of Enniskillen. In point of fact Enniskillen is an extraordinary military position and extremely difficuft to beleaguer. It is ~ituated on a five-mile neck of land between two large lakes, which heck presents the further .character of a river line expanding into small lakelets in many places : it is thus very easily defensable. Moreover, a great number of routes converge on this neck, including the following railways :- That by Belcoo and Manorhamilton to Collooney; that by Fintona to Omagh, with a branch from Bundoran Junction round the north of L ower L o.ugh E.rne to Ballyshannon ; that by Newtown Butle·r to Clones_:_another fairly important junction. All these lines are paralleled by roads running close to them. I n additi~n, .t her e is another road to Ballyshannon by the south side of the lake, one by the western side oCthe Upper lake to Belturbet and Cavan, arid one due . east by Tempo, through the Clog her Valley. X VII. CALWAY-AT H ENRY . Athenry is situated at the junction point 0£ the Great Southern Railway from Limerick to Sligo with ·the Midland from Galway to Dublin . Railways are important in Galway more than in other counties, because the roads are not very plentiful and several are bad, while the distances are very great. In this respect Athenry resembles Cla.remorris, in. Mayo.

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By road Athenry is also centrally placed, being within easy distance of Galway, Headford, 'l'uam, Mount Bellew, and I1oughrea . XVII I .

KERRY-:-KI lLARNEY,

Although not a place of the highest military value, Killarney is nevertheless by far the most important point in Keny . It 'is so on account of the very peculiar shape of this county, a great part of which is comprised in the three long, narrow mountain peninsulas of Smerwick, Cahirciveen, and Castletown-Bere-part of which latter is in Co. Cork. These peninsulas are separated from each other by Dingle Bay and Kenmare River, and t he towns of Castlemaine and Kenmare at the head of these inlets command all the roads from these peninsulas to the :interior. Now, good roads and raihyays i·un from Killarney to each of these towns, and also from Killarney to 'l'ralee and ListoweL Killarney is such an important tourist centre that. all the roads from it are good. It will be seen at once that Killarney is by far the best point of assembly for a military force in Kerry, being, the only one capable of being reached by all with comparative ease . And contrariwise it is the best centre to move from to any part of the county . Inland from Killarney runs the road and railway by Macroom to Mallow; and another road over the mou-ntains to ·Cork.

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at Kilkenny crnsses the Nore, here a fa:irsized river. Another road runs northwest to Roscrea ; one goes due south to Waterford; and a third by way of Thomastown to New Ross . The city is on tha.t line of the Great Southern R ailway which runs from Maryboro' to yY aterfor<l, and there is a short transverse branch to Bagnalstown. · · XXI. KIN C'S-TULLAM ORE. Tullamore, like Kilkenny and some of the other points described, is locally important because it has a central situation which admits of easy communication with all pa,r ts of the county. It is connected by r oad with Banag·her, Birr, Maryboro', Portarlington, Edenderry, Mullingar and Athlone. It is also one of the most important points on the Grand Canal between Dublin and Ballinasloe. But it is also a place of consequence for anothei: reason : it is situated midway on the branch line of railway connecting the two important junctions of Mullinga1· and Portarlington, and this line passes over a bridge near th<r town. This crossline is the only north-and-south railway east of the Shannon connecting importa nt systems. Indeed in the matte-r of communications generally between North and South Tullamore is very important by reason 0£ the number of such routes passing through it. XXll.

XIX. KILDARE- SALLINS, It may seem strange to select a small village like Sallins as the most. important strategic centre in Co. Kildare, and it is so for one reason chiBfly-but a very important one . In its neighbourhood the Great Southern and Western Railway, the most important line of communication by far between Dublin and the South of Ireland, can be destroye·d in two places : a little above the town where ' it crosses the Grand Canal and a little below where it crosses the Liffey . Moreover, the canal itself passes through Sallins, and in places i~s banks could be broken and the country flooded. Nbrth of Sallins ·the country is easily defensible, being well wooded in great part on the side of Straffan, and covered by the Bog of Allen in the direction of Prosperous and T'i mahoe. XX. KILKENNY- KILKENNY. The City of Kilkenny is of course by far the most important town in point of size in the county of the same name. It is further, although not precisely in the middle of the county, sufficiently central to be a natural point of junction. Finally, it is 0£ consequence by reason of its commanding the most important routes . through the county. Of these the principal is the road from Clonmel by Callan, and so on by Athy and Naas to Dublin. This road

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The Boyne Valley is one of the most important tracts 0£ land in the- province of Leinster, and Navan is the principal town in this district: it is so alike by reason of its size and its situa.tion. Placed at the junction of the 'Boyne and Blackwater, it controls the valleys of both .these rivers . The Great Northern Railway from Drogh~da to ~ells and Oldcastle passes through the town, as also does the Dublin-Kingscourt line. There is also a very good and direct road to Dublin, two to Drogheda- one on each bank of the Boyne, one due north, and others t o Kells, Mullingar, and Trim.

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. CAVAN GOING. STRONG .

Cavan is well reP,ay_ing the atte.n tion ' which has been devoted to it. The scheme of county organisation., under the County Board; is . \vor4:ing admirably, an\]. the men ai·e reported to be " thinking in guns ." This is as it should be. EveIJ' unit in every county. should be thinking steadily in guns . One.'s opinion of any corps should depend largely on its answer to the question : '' How many guns· have you?"

The Central 'Executive . o-£ ' the · Irish Volunteers met at Headquart~rs on W ,ed., nesda.y -_eyei1ing, th ~ 22nd inst., Com- , manda:rit P. H . Pearse in the chair. A r~port was received of the County : Conference held at Maryboro' on Sunday, 19th inst., at which ' there were delegates from . eleven Companies in Leix, Vice- .' Comniandant Pierce Beasley representing H eaclqliarters . . A County -Committee. to · take charge of the work of .o rganising Le.ix · wa~ . for~ed. A wiry satisfactory report on the pro- · ,AN IMMORAL- PAMPHLET. gress of organ~sation in Co. Cavan was received. WHY THE MARTYRS OF MANCHEfSIt was· agreed that Volunteers in . TER DIED. By .A. . Newman. Trncts uo· for the Times, No. 9 . PTice l<l. ~ g·eneral should be asked to take a more late active interest in the auxiliary and to Dublin: Whelan . and Son. · 'Ounpo11c nd f~mn~, exert themselves to enrol° members . 'l'hey died, because, like the Bishop oif .&t ct1.dt, 22 m : Mn., 1915. H eadquarters, 2 Dawson Street, •' Limerick, they weTe. Traitors to England. Dublin, 22nd Dec., 1915. They died because, like Father Nicholas. ron.t6:SR-O. con::ce-0.nn. · ..~ . ' Sheehy, they were Irish Mur-d erers. They ;5unn.c1"06111e'4 cc. died, like the millions that died in the GENERA°L O_RD'ER, , 1l . fe-.6.c.&'O n.d Cmn Compl.6.CC cu15~~ _so Famine, for; _the · good of the English MUSKETRY. mbero cle.dcc.&u u11cu11.&cc.6. <1S J;.dc 65i.ic. Empire. They died, in a wor_d, because "O.d 1:>ru1L rJ. n-.6. :i;ceMnur .udtl' r.& cre~cc1. Cotnp~ny Qo~man~ers will see that it was necessary tG Defend· tb:e ·Realm~ every Volunteer m theu. command ,gets - I th d · t'h R 1 'L · De . rlM1ri .&l' <1 L.615e.6."0. es~ ays _ e, ea m can k.Je · · k ; n . 2. b11orcu151"0lr n.6. .r1l' cum cte.&CC.6.U target practi~e at 1east, once ~- _wee _ . ' ' fended by merely.' imprisoning or deport2. They men: · I ns · h men·; -.m -th ose d ays '•t "00 ue..&n.6.tn .· hr lre.dl cciril mm1c .&5·9 r 1r , will encourage their . · . to ; , · mg i was necesmake use of every opportumty of pnvate t ·h I · h If- ·t rem111e,·1i:l·ceMnt:.6. .d t>r.6.S.6.1"0 "Oe cle.dcc.&u -. -. . . . . sary o ang ns men. . 1 were necesN :i;Compt'.d'ci:'. · '4 , practice · h men · . or.. t o b 01·1 'th em - i·n . m add1t10n to the usual Company · I, sary t o fl ay I n~ · - 3~ ·· 'C.d .&-i1 te-'1pn:&1t> C.6.t .&:i;ur Stu.it .&n practice. · . oil the _-'t hing, --howe.ver disagreeable, 3 .. Brigade and Battalion Commanders Id b . d · me'm rrn "O'o·' C::u11 "O'f1.6.c~1t> .&l' 5.dc "O~tl1n5 . , . s . ..·,. . ' · . . f h. d . ,wou .fl · one. 'O.d t>ru1l .n -.6. 5cednnur. · will ensure the carrymg out o t is or er ; ·>' ·I · .t d f · · t.h th . . . · ns ea. o · seeing m ese men e nein all umts of theU' command. " · · ·f E · th . th t m1re, THOMAS MacDONAGH cessary v10tims o.: _mpm~- e eggs a >-com.&s m-0.c nonne~u~ . . ,. tt ';/'-' ' ' make .up the English _omelette- Ireland Commandant, Ce.6.nn C.6.t.6.. . ~ ,:--., perversely SflEJS : ip · th~m .m artyrs of her Director of Training. · , · tl1.&11.&1ue n.& h01Le~rilifo. national cause . It · is an instance of · · · 'O'unpottc n.& feirine; ·· ' ' L Headquarters, 2 Dawson Street, Ireland' s pecu.liarly medieval outlook. k J)ublin, 22nd_ Dec.,, 19lq. ···: · .&t CL1.6.t; 22 .m . n.& n., 1915.' She has - no.t - *'e.t. lear.ned to thin im·'-l perially. . . ~ • · . ' Mr . N,ewm.an's pamphlet is carefully .p0ssibilities of the Auxiliary. It is not calcu:late~a;--:1;0:- oste-f __ .Ttish ·prejudices , - N~t. e. s ~ too rrrnch_to · ~sk th~ · Irish · Volunteers to against. Eng·land'. · Jt' is therefore a dan, · ·, see that dun.ng the next· few months gerous pa~phlet . · Mr . Newman's pam~--------------'""'!". -~ · every man' and women ' i:n Ireland who phlet , is , a glo!·ification of Three Mur1 ~ TARGET PRACTICE. . .s-ympa.thises ·:with us be· brought into derers''. It is ther'efore an immoral pamA General Ordei'' issued by the Direc- :.official · ·connecti~n with,. the V0lunteers phle't . · Obviolisly, ' no Irish Volunteer ' tor -~(Training 'this. week calls' the ,'a.fteh- · th~ough 'the Auxiliary. There is really wiil buy it,. Th'~ 'price 1s one penny, arid tion of all Gommafiders ·0f · units to the an immensely powerful body of public it can b~ had .po~t free in quantities of a extreme , importance of target pr~ctiee.' opinion behind the Irish Volunteers, and . dozen ' ·a nd up~a.rds. It i~ to be feared that in many Compi .n ies ··the task_is•.to make that body of opinion P.H. P. too little attention is paid -to what .. is" ... effective. Jt ca.n be done by bringing

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after all, . the most impo.rtant part of our " all our friends· into the -Auxiliary. training. It is now laid. dovrn thatevei:'Y Viohmteers and others who are able to THE BO:DEN,STOWN SERIES.man must get practice at tl;i.e Co:iip; ny " act as organisers or centres of the Auxi.N o's. i and 2 of the Bodenstown Series target at least once a week, and in ,addi:,. · 1ia1•y should communicate immediately have nO'w been .r(l-p'rinted. No . 1 is Mr. ti6n that tEe ' men· are tb be encouraged with Headquarters: P: H. : Pearse' ~ ' '"I;Iow Does She Stand?" 1 to get as much p rivate practice as p~s- ' ORGANISING LEIX. .,~nd No. 2'" llis "F:rom a Hermitage ." sible. It should not be necessary to emLeix has to be added to the counties The former i's issuecf ~t a penny, the latphasise the f~ct that if we fail to hit wnen which have •reached the County Boa.rd ter at twopence. Both can be obtained we shoot we fail in everything. The one stage.. At a. conference in Maryboro' on whol~sale ·from · W}+elan and Son, 17 wav to learn how .., ........ to . hit is to . praQtise~ . \·, " Sunday last. eleven Co~panies were 1~e Upp~r '0r~ond Quay, · Dublin. T,HE AUXILIARY. · ~ ..~ presented, and a County Board. was AO'ain tlie Executive directs the a.He n- elected to take in hand the work of conIRl.SH THEATRE, Ha1'dwic~e Street, avail"' tion of the ~rganisati-on to the imp0r.ta.nt solida.t in9 ,aa«i~~~ending the orga-ni~a,~i9n ' ableL fo)::. ' Performanc·es;-. Coticerts, Rehearsals, etc.. Terms (low) from the M~nager. . (_.; ~.

THI:

i RiSH VOLUNtEEh.

te.6..0AR t>R1tle u6:st&CA10 nA he1ReAnn

Saturday, j anuary 1st, 1916. BELFAST ' VOLUNTEERS AND CUMANN NA mBAN.

Xmas Shooting liOmpeitition1. A hig·hly-successful shooting co~peti tion was organised by the Belfast Committee, for which entries were received cum :sunn6J uo " rhe6.uc.o.mc" from members of the Cumann na mBan, c.o.RelS "1sl1Ste" as well as from the Volunteers. A sea.led handicap was drawn up, and shooting took place at the Drill Hall, Willowbank, on Sunday, Tuesday, W eclnesday a.nd 'l'hursday nights. Keen interest was ·shown by the competitors, and s~me fine shooting was made . · Friendly rivalry between the Cumann na mBan and· the Volunteers gave additional zest to the competitors. On the handicap the first two prizes were secured by cailini, while the honour of the Volunteers was abl-y defended by the winner of the third prize. Remarkable accuracy was shown by the prizewinners . Miss Kelly, the 1st prizewinner, scored 92 per cent., which was excelled -only by one competitor, 'l'omas Mac hUain, who made the highest individual score, 98 pe~· cerit., and obtained third. prize . · Miss C01T was the .winner of the . second prize, scored. Cli.o.t.an.o.c 78 per cent. le "Oume.

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the rear edge of clearing or roadway has been successfully held. Similarly a hedge can be h~ld against a force att empting 'to break out from another hedge . just in front of it. At Aughrim the Irish infantry, driven from the first line of fences, filed off to the flanks and lined the other fences at right angles to the first, pouring an enfilade fire into the attackers'. · But a force holding a · h~dge is better placed. · Strong hedges are formidable physical barriers- they hold up attacking troops precisely as if they were barbed wire enta:nglements. This fact tends to inspire confidence in the defending trpops, and makes it easy to induce theni to stand and fight to a finish. There is the knowledge that the attacker is certain to be seriously dela.yed at the last mo·ment, and consequently less fear of the defenders being cut off . The men will stand fast and remain firing up to the

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A further development is that gradual The men may slip away a few at a time, and the first to retire take up their position behind the next fence, where they are well posted to· check by their fire any close pursuit of the remainder. Then some more fall back until only a few men are left, who . keep up a brisk fire until the V.ery last, when they finally retreat. An increase in the size of the fields increases the difficulty of withdrawal by . reason of being so much more open and there. being so much further to go: the men are exposed for some t ime . In this case the system of gradual withdrawals is paJ·ticularly useful. Another method sometimes to be used with good results is in single file along· the fences. Officers should be practised in the moving of quite large forces in single file-e.g., a company or so. vVicle intervals across the open· may be ised in retirement as in advance, but in· this .case even a large field will only give manoeuvring ground for a comparatively sma.11 body. withdr~wals are possible.

MR. SHEEHY SKEFFINCTON •

F. Sh,eehy Skeffiington will speak un(ler the auspices of the Irish W om~n' s Franchise League on January 4th, Tuesday next, at 8 .p.m., in the Fo~esters' Hall, Parnell Square, on "Impres~ions of America.'' This will. be his :fir~t public appearance after his impris~n ment, release under the "Cat and Mouse Act,'' and subsequent tour in the State, and seeing that he has recently been in touch with most of the progressive movements in the United States, having spoken in four of the largest cities, his lecture promises to be of special interest. VQLUNTEERS! Have you seen the Popular Play,

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Saturday; January 1st, 1916.

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.:Sa1.urda:y, ·January 1st ,' 1916.

THE IRISH VO tlJ NTEER.

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tails, and in the evening again try and Rep~irs. A.~essories. Second-hand Bicycles IN OBSERVAT ION. describe . the building . . Next day look from 15/-. · Prams and Gramophones Repaired. On your powers of observation will largely depend your success or failure as out for ; new details,· .and continue each CON'SCR.J:PTION a scout. Unless -you . ~ake up your .mind day un~il you c~n form a .perfect mental I know absolutel'[ nothing about it, but I DO . ~no'Y that can give best val~e i• to · become a · trained observer yo~-- can !· picture of that building. ·Then take up Ireland m Razors. Try my Special 2/1 anot. h er building for observation and you Razor. Money returned if not satisfied. never hope. to' be . of any use as a scout.. . Old · Jtazore Ground and Set, 4d. Your power of obs:e rvation will depend will be surprised to ·find that you will notice, at .a single glance, ~ore de· M'O.lJILLAN~ 35.36 CAPEL ST. upon ·the stand~rd of-perfection to which tail concerning it . than you did in the your senses:.. .:. . srght, .nearing, smell, and -· touch- ha.ve been trained . The maj;rity early stages of your training. Exercises , - • of this sort take .up v:ry little time and : ' of people are very careless observers. · . . .. For instan ce, .two persons of equal de- should be practised o'n your · way to · , school or business. R emember I do not , All kinds .~2 Ammunition. grees of eyesight will walk thr01;igh a suggest that you should spend ten · All B?ards, Targets. . wood . Both of them will see trees . To minutes staring hard at the building. A. , Cleanm g Rods! Pull Thi:oughs, Oils, a.nd one of them there will be but trees perall Rifle Sundnes. ·t . . · ceived, while to the other- the trained goo d 1oo k- a t i as you pass, noherng and observer-th~re will be a perception of memorising as much detail as possible, : CATALOGUES ON APPLICATION. the different specie§ of trees, the bark, is all that is .necessary. A tJ Gun and , Until your training has advanced some- , • ~.,, Rltle .MakeP leaves, size, shape, etc . The scout, whose chief object is to get what you should not try to "take in" a 3 IN'N'S QUAY, DUBLIN. information, must. be trained so as to ob- complex object at one look . Begin by Teleph:one 257'. se1:ve everything., things near at hand noticing the details of the object instead and things far off in the distance. The of observing it in its general aspect. If broken twig, the turned leaf; the foot- you go into the country don't try to obprint, the, 'glint of a rifle, the puff of serve half a county until you are able to notice and memorise the main features -· ~moke , the s~all cloud of dust, the sudden flight of a. bird, may convey a mes- of a single field . . You may say that there sage to th.e trained scout where the is not much to observe a.b out a field . untrained -observer sees . nothino· un- W ell, just .try . L ook at a 'single field 0 for five minutes, then t urn your back and common. note the details you have <?bserved : the , I could_hardly exaggerate the import- · gates. the hedg-es, the- ditches ' the 0o·aps ' ance o'f training in observation-not only ._, the ,humps in it, the crops, and so on . DO YOU FEEL WEAK, DEPRESSED, or in your- capacity as a· scout but also in You will find in the beginning, as in the RUN DOWN? , CA.ffiLL' S AROMATIC your everyday life. To give serious atQUININE AND ffiON TONIC will tone you tention in .developing your powers of ob- case of the building, that you are una·b le up, . steady your nerves, improve your appetite, ennch .your blood. ·For summer lassitude. for servation will well repay you, for as a to take in all the details, even of a single Neuralgiai try a bottle ls. and 2s. · postag~ 4d. field. Keep at .the same field until you Made on y by .AR'.IIHUR J. CAHILL The sharp observer you will be invaluable as National Chemist, 82A Lower Dorset Street a scout, a'n d very valuable in ordinary have all its important features impressed Dublin. ' on your memory . Note the depth of the a:ffairs to yourself and others. I n order to become a sharp observer . ditches, and how · much deeper or shal-· VOLUNTEERS I Send your Shirts, Collars, &c. TO THE requires 11teady and continuous pra'ctice, lower they require .to be made so as to and your training need not be confined ' turn them into p.roper trenches . Observe NAT I O.N AL LAUNDRY, to your F ianna parades . You should cul- the nearest road. Imagine that some of 60 South William Street, DUBLIN. SUITS AND UNIFORMS CLEANED and tivate the habit of noticing things in your infantry may have to entrench PRESSED IN , o Dus. detail and storing them in your meinory. themselves in that and the adjoining . fields before the evening . What hills Start now . Try and describe some buildIrish Made Shi~ Caps, Poplln Ties, ing you pass eve~y day- your scho~l command that field '? That tree, only Collars, Hosiery, • · house. Your offices or place of business . , two fields away on yo~r right, may conTHE BEST VALUE . FOR CASH IN LIMERICK. You will, no d~ubt, be able to describe ' tain a sniper; how are yo·u going to find p,<>.'On.~1:s 11-4t tmuum, it in · a ge·n eral way . You will know its out, without experiencing the unpleas~nt · Draper, . sensation of being "potted ." shape, whether it is built of brick or 10 WILLIAM STREET, LIMERICK. P ADRAIC 0 RrAIN. stone, and the number of its windows [These notes on Observation will be perhaps; but I will be greatly surprised :S6e"01L 1r e.&-0 rinn -ne continued ii;t next ~eek's issue.] 1r n i n .&111 .. l1nn e. if you can . describe fairly accurately the Give us a trial order for FRESH IRo SH OAT· size, shape, and colour of the doors and MEAL, MACROOM OA"FMEAL, TEAS from '1. I 4 .to 3 / •• Sent Post tree. ' windows~ to say nothing about the shape DUBLIN COLLEGE OF MODERN MacCliRTAIN BROS., of the roof, chimneys, etc . And then you IRISH . 5'1.· 54 SHANDON ST. AND ·40 THOMAS DAVIS have the cornices, the trimmings, the 20 KILDAR E STREET. ST. , CORK. angles of the roof and a multit ude of other F I RST AID CLASSES . details. I am curious to know the r esult For Members of Cumann, na mBan, Thursday of this little experiment. How man y of afternoo~ 1 to 5.30, beginning October 29th. Session Opens September 23rd. Those w1shmg to at tend should apply by letter you have really seen the building at all . t o Hon. Soos. , Cumann na mBan Executive 2 You have -looked ' at it every day, perhaps, Fee for Teachers 5/· Dawson St reet. ' for a year or more, without seeing it as Fee for. N om-Teachers 't OI· a scout sheuld . .· T,o-morrow have another Printed for the Proprietor-a at Mahon'• Printillg Works, Dublin, and published at the Volunteer Syllabus from Registrar, 20 Kildare Street, look at the building and observe the deHe&dquartera, ·t ,. Daweon' Street, DubliD. . TRA I N INC

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