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these terms. ·He has never been able to state on. what occasion .any body of Irishmen bound themselves by .a ny such understandincr. He has since ._._i:. - been foi:~d ~o- go filrthe_-T- a:nd t~ lay _dolv.n that The Home Rule cheque was ·s igned a year and Ireland is bound by an honourable understanding a half ago. '1 ne story or what went on about it t<? send every av~ilable man to fight for the Embetween the outbreak of the war and the signing pirE'., _because Home ~ule has reached its, present of the cheque has not beeri revealed to the people position. The truth is that not even the English of Ireland by those who took upon themselves to people understood,, until the war was upo.n them. act as Ireland's plenipotentiaries,- a power that_ they would' ~e asked to ral.se an army on ; which was never conferred on them. There were con~mental s?ale m order_ that they might satisfy private meetings and Cabinet meetings. The the_ expectat10ns of thell' allies and still keep ~pponents of Home Rule carried the day, except ~heu- naval strength unimpaired. Therefore it rn so far as the Home Rule Bill was not com- is ui;itrue to everybody's knowledge and cannot pletely abandoned. The cheque was signed and . possi_bly _·be _true that lre~and understood any postdated for t"welve months. Then the self- such ob,ligation, express or implied, even upon constituted pl~nipotentiaries, having been forced the full concession of her national rio:hts ne't to to ;y:ield because they took it on themselves to put speak of the present ignominious poiritioft of the their cause at. the mercy of secret negotiations . Home Rule Act. * * * and_ kept the knowledge of what was going on The cheque for Home Rule was post-dated to from the people of Ireland, were forced to come out in public and declare that th.e ir demands had September 17th, 1915~and the new terms were been conceded- when they had not been con~ forced upon ML Redmond. In September, 1915, ceded. . Irelan~, they declared, must now pay lVIr . .A.sqmth haa not Jiet ·reached Berlin and the the pnce; a pnce that Ireland had never before cheque -was again post-dated to St . -Patrick's heard of, for that which was hers by right, and· Day, _1916. St. Patrick's Day is coming,_ and Mr. .A.sqmth does p.ot expect to be in Berlin by then. which these same men had always claimed as a S~ the English Priv:y Council met som_e days ago, nationai right and a measure of justice. Kmg George ' presided, and the Home Rule .. * * * "Justice shall not be denied or sold or de- cheque was post -dat~- to September, 1916. But layed.'' The chief offende:rs are those British .. the day_ of our. National. Apostle is to be celeMinister.s who had pledged their honour to carry brated m Dublm by an Imperial flag collection, through this measure of justice, and had already a~~d by that da:f twelvemon_th the Imperial accepted on that faith the support of the Irish tubute collectors m Ireland W!ll be expected to Party and of the electorate behind the Irish have raked in an additional -Eicrht Millions of Par:ty. .Already they had partly gone back on war taxes. They will also h ave t~ rake in whattheU: pledges, '8,nd their s].lccess in_ forcing a . e_v_zr ~res~ taxes will be imposed under the Biidcret pai-tial surrend~-i· on their Irish allies encoura<Yed · now rn ptepltration. J. h ' loo1ts as~ if the pl"incipal ·· them to go farther in the same path of dis- duty of an Irish Gov11rnment 1;l.nder the Home honour. It was these men, Mr. Birrell and his Rule Act is to be the collection of Imperial taxes. colleagues, that delayed justice and held it up Never was such a legislative mess contrived as the present position of Home Rule. for sale.
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What, let us ask, would have .happened if withi? the first _tw.o months of the war, Mr'. :Asqmth, Mr. Birrell, and the other Liberal Ministers who were not secretly opposed to Home Rule, had said: "Our honour is pleP,ged to ~r. Redmond, our terms of agreement are public, they are embodied in the Home Rule Bill, they are not a Hypocritical Sham, the British Democracy supports them ; and now in this unparalleled Imperial crisis we, who claim to be devoted not· only to the British Empire but also to the cause of European liberty and of the smaller nations, insist on the fulfilment of oU:r contract without further conditions and withou.t further . delay.?" Who could have preventet:' them? Would the Unionists have venturea either to renew the conflict in Great Britain or to have carried out their threat of violence in Ireland, in the midst of the Imperial crisis ? Could they have denounced Mr. Redmond for claimincr at least the immediate fulfilment of the acrree".'. ment by compromise embodied in the Home Rule Bill?
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What these men did, who talk to us of honour and loyalty, was to make a compact with the enemies of Home Rule, and to force that compact upon Mr. Redmond. They said in effect to Mr. R~dmond , '' We will not fulfil our agreement with you. You .are powerless to insist upon it. In three months' time, or six months or nine months at the outside, we shall be ~ittincr in Berlin dictating our will to the world . You"'and your puny nation are in no position to demand anything, even though it has been already acrreed upon. That agreement no loncrer holds. "'The conditions we now offer you are these : the Home Rule ~ill w!J.l receive the royal assegt, but its operation will be suspended until we come back from Berlin. Before 1t can come into effect your opponents, the Unionists, will have full ~ppor tuni~y of alt~ring the t erms of the .A.ct by means of ~n amendmg .A.ct. I n. the meantime, you shall assist us to the utmost m the prosecution of the war. Y:ou shall do your '.ltmost to_raise an army for us m Ireland, to stifle the di content that these terms will naturally arouse in Ireland and to aid u s in imposing fresh taxes upon Ir~land for _the purpose of the war. Otherwise, you must plamly understand that the Home Rule Bill "'ill have to be abandoned."
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Mr. Re~moi;id yielded to the defenders of trea~y o~ligations and of small nationalities. Havmg yielded, he tried to make the case that he was bound and that the Irish electorate wel:e bound by some previous understanding to accept
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.A. crowded meeting held last week in the Dublin Ma11sion House to protest acrainst the plunder of Ireland was practically boyMtted by the " Irish " -daily papers, which make a harvest out 9f war advertisements. The state of funk to which the Unionist Press is reduced on the taxatioi;i question is. attested by the "Irish Times," which was afraid to tell its readers that such a meeting was held .. The Unionists have managed to hold an extra big share of all the crood thino-s that. Imperial government has left u~, and it is a slight offset to the robbery of the nation to know that the hangers-on of Predominant Partnership stand in danger of. being the most severe!! flee_ced . The big whigs that pretend to be Nationalists of a sort are in the same case If it was n.o t for the Nation's loss, we might. say "Devil's cure to them ."
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" Can the Empire spare this man to the parish p~mp_ politics of a single nation l' Why narrow. his mmd,_ and to Ireland give up what was meant for mankmd ?" These are the words of the Home Rule Liberal "Review of Reviews " for March, 1_9 ll .. They represe~1t the sympathy of the English Liberals for Insh nationality and for Irish self-government. They are. ·the last words of a long and highly eulogistic " character sketch " of an Irish politician. The Empire is for mankind. Ireland for. the parish pump. Remark the flattery and the well-laid t emptation. "This man" then seemed a danger, he was an unknown quantity. Mr. Redmond and Mr. 'Dillon are handled in t he same article, but the Liberals knew all about them. They are no lono-er anxious · about Mr. Devlin, for he is the man whom in 1911 ~heJ·. were _trying to St;)cure for the Empire and to mspire w1tJ: conte_mpt. for the parish pump politics of Irish Nat10nality. They now have him ?nd Mr. Redmond and ¥r. Dillon with him, help'. mg them to plunder; rum 'and depopulate Ireland · - for the benefit of mankind!
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I pointed out recently that, since ''Ireland will be eternally disgraced" and will be " unworthy · of Home Rule" and double taxation " unless the gaps in Irish regiments are filled up by Irishmen," then the bigger the gaps are made the greater will be Ireland's disgrace and her unworthiness for Home Rule. .At a recruiting meeting the other day the Earl of Fingall q1,1oted a letter he had received from an Irish officer, who said that of 1,000 men he took out to the war there were only 100 left. The things that Mr. Redmond has to say seem a bit ha.rel on the other 900.
The London " Times " of last Saturday had another inspired article -on the Irish Volunteers \Vho, says the insp ired wtiter, are drawn fro~ thTee gxoup.s: /t a small nucleus of bitter, sincere, ana 'clever malcoi'itents; a much larger immbei;who say, and perhaps believe, that this is not Ireland's · war, because they have been dis• appointed about Home Rule ; and a still i:arg~ number who profess the · doctrines of Sinn Fein as -an excuse for Le selfishness or apathy that ke~ps them from joining the Colours.'' Therewere thought to be Irish Volunteers before the war, but that may have been a mistake. "The best Irish opinion," says the inspired writer," is uneasy about the Government's policy of "laisser faire." The best Irish opinion, then, must be a yeTy hole-and-corner sort of.thing with a particular love of anonymity. If it wants tl).e Governm~mt to __d~clare w?r in Ireland, why is the best Insh opm1011 afraid to put its name to its demand? The '' Times '' would not refuse its. columns to a list of names of those who constitute its best Irish opinion, and would thus relieve thE'.m of the stigma cast upon them -by its special writer.
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. Du?lin Castle instructed its legal representative m Cork to suggest a charge of inciting to the murder of Mr. Redmond against an Irish V ?.lunteei: organiser, but failed to produce any eyi.~ence m support of the charge. The game iS' , obvious enough. The Castle wants the Irish question to take the convenient form of a .faction figh.t'. It played that game in Limerick and 0crot· a specii!-1 :eport for it in the English pa'.pers. It played· it m Tyrone. Its recruiting officers played it all over Kerry, and Sir Morgan O'Connell sayi:f that llQW " ~very vill!Lge in Kerry is rotten with: Sein Fein-'.'- the printer will please leave Sir: Morgan's Germai1 uncorrected. So in order to !>lood up M!·· ~edmond's supporter~, the Castle> mvents an mcitement to murder Mr. Redmond trusting that they will not notice that no witnes~ c~uld be got to swear to the invention. Mr. Birrell may make up his mind that the Irish Vo~unteers will not lay a finger on Mr. Redmond. · It is the Burglar that they are looking out for. Mr. Redmond may even stand on his masters' platform and insult us to .please them to further their game of faction makino- and t~ encourage their '.'Defence of the Real~ " performances. The Insh Volunteers will not lose sight of thei:rone and only purpose. * * * The inspired writer in the " Times " does not fail to take a hand in the crame . The "Times " gives him a heading in capitals, "FURY WITH MR. REDMOND," and this o-ood Unionist says~ "~~r: Redmo1~d's ~trong ha;cl in favour of recrmtmg has mfunated the Sinn Feiners." I must admit that I have heard a chorus of · youngsters in Dublin publicly singincr their intention to " hang John Redmona on ~ sour apple tree," and that the "infuriated Sinn Feiners ,,. several thousand of them, actually laucrhed hear this doom pronounced . " The wrath of the Sinn ,¥einers i:;; unboun~ed," says the inspired' one1 and he is abused m nearly every issue of their .weekly newspapers with all the tropical luxuriance of Celtic imagery." The sneer at the Celt shows us in what circle the writer cratherS' "the best Irish opinion." It follows a s~ntence in which he praises Mr. Redmond's sincerity and' courage. At the same time the Best Irish Opinion is thin~ing - !-J-ight and day about giving, Mr. Redmond L1menck when there is no further· use for him, and is counting confidentlv on thehelp of the ;Best English Opinion. Wait and see! There is another sneer of the Best Irish Opinion at " the impish tendencies of the Celticcharacter," and another sneer · at " the Irish peasant," the farmer's son. Very sincere and courageous is the anonymo'u s admirer of Mr. Red~ond's sincerity and courage, as he waits for· . the time to ·sandbag Mr. Redmond . . EoIN MAC NEILL.
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ORD ERS FOR - WE.EK EN-DING 12th MAR CH, 1916. 1. The Musketry Class will not be held thfa week. Other Classes as usual. · 2. Lecture for Officers on Saturday, 8 p.m. _3. On St. Patrick's :Qay, March 17th, there will be a Church Parade and Inspection o:li· Brigade. · E. DE VALERA, Brigade ·Adjt.
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The Brigades and Battalions everywhere have entered with spirit into the views of Headquarters- with i·egard to St. Pa.trick's Day, There will be Church Parades on a large or on a small scale in a great ma:ny centres. Manoouvres or recruiting marches will occupy -the men during the day, and in the evening there will be concerts and so'Cial rallies of one sort or another. The Parades ought to be utilised by Commanding Officers for the inspection _of equipment. Each man (unless otherwise ordered) should turn out with' arms, ammunition pouch or bandolier, and haversack . Where the · men have knaps.a cks these also should be carried . The officers should regard the mopilisation as ·a test of the men's readiness, and remember that the readiness ef their equipment requires to be tested as well as the men's personal readiness. Such important matters as cleaning apparatus for rifles shou.ld not be lost sight of on an occasion like this. Officers and men should get into the habit of turning out with all the essentials of field service, apart fro.m the more ponderous impedimenta which would need special means of transpoi·t. .And even the special means of transport should be tested a few times a year. · HEADGEAR.
Our Volunteer cap has certain advantages and certain disadvantages. A!! to the advantaO'es the chief is that it is smart-looking. .As to dis~ advantages, among other obvioi,1s ones it affords no -protection from sun and rain to the back of the head; it is conspicuous, and therefor& not very.good for taking cover; and, if removed from - the head, it is from its shape difficult to stow anywhere. On the whole, it is believed that a fairly ''ide-brimmed felt hat of the type worn by the Canadians, .Australians, and South .Afri$)ans is a more serviceable headgear for field work. Such a hat should, of course, be as nearly, waterp1:oof as possible; and this consideration bars out the cheaper sorts of soft hats. Headquarters would long ago have prescribed an . >
The Central Executive of the Irish Volunteers met at H eadquarters on Wedp.esday evening, the 1st ins;t., Mr. E. Kent in the chair . Various arrangements were made in connec'tion with organisation, the movements of Organisers, etc. Headquarters, 2 Dawson Street, Dublin, 1st March, _!916.
run, but are met by Cornelius and his rifle-butt. Some of .t he enemy are now through the hedge; and help does not seem forthcoming . .A despair~ ing glance round shows a distant force- advancing. "Can we hold tliem off till they come?" Cornelius doesn't know what to do. He looks round again: The Local Reserve is nearer; it is hurrying. " Give them something to do while they're waiting, anyhow,'" he says.· He blows his :whistle~ " Come on!" He rushes through the hedge at t)J.e worst of the gaps, ap.d the relics of ''. Z" Company rushes in behind hiin . Bent rifles and twisted shot-guns are whirling despe-c rately. By the time the Company has been annihilated the counter-attapk has come home.
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Just an imaginary · picture of hedge-fighting official hat in substitution for · the· cap only for · the difficulty .o f g.e tting a mannfactJll:er to _turn. by one who has never see):). it. But it might work out that way-more or less. · · · out the artiCle requirea in sufficient· quantities. In . point of fact, no Ii:ish_ manufacturer seems willing or able to undertake the thing. It has tnerefore been found-Clesiiable ·t o· issue a:ii. Order mer~ly in general terms, but .t he order is an important ol;).e a)'J.d sho.u ld be obeyed everywhere. It is to the effect that each .Volunteer is to pro- , There are a few questions ~ should like to put vide himself with a brnad-brimmed' felt hat of befoTe the members of· Cumann na mBan and the a neutral colour (preferably .irey-green) and that other women of Ireland this week. Let them this is to be worn for field wo1·k or when specially the subject of meditation for the next few ordered by a Corn;manding Offic.er. In. many form days and I am sure they will arrive at the con-: cases the hat which the Volunteer wears in clusions that every Irishwoman of sense arid everyday life will do very well. judgment must jnevitably come to at the present OT HE R THINGS. time:. "There are some othe'l· items of personal equip(1.) Wherefore have we Irish Volunteers ? ment 'w hich Volunteers should look after for (2.) Is the pr.esent year 1916 going to have any themselves. Good, strong, comfortable boots are more significance . for the Irish ·Volunteers than one. Battles have been lost because the soldiers all the years to follow? · were not well-shod.- .,.A~ change of shirt and of . (3.) Is the fate ·of the Irish Volunteers and the socks and a ·spare handkerchief or two should be ~ issue of their achievements a matter of indiffer-1 in the marching kit of· every Volunteer. .A clasp- cnce to the Cumann na mBan ? knife, a scissors, pins, boot-laces, matches, a (4.) ·can the Cumann na mBan do anythit)g to pocket torch qr even a stump of candle, a lead- shape the destinies of the Irish Volunteers? . pencil, a notebook,-not one of these will be in REPORTS FROM BRANCHES. the way, and every one of these will be useful. Cyclists should not forget pump and repairing .A great many of the BTanches have· decided to outfit. .And every man should have his First hold a flag-day for CU:mann ii.a rnBan, and we Field Dressing, and every Company .a supply of except that it ought to serve as splendid prosplints and larger bandages. The get.ting of such paganda, besides swelling_ the purse of the orthings together is as much a part of the· training ganisation. · , of Volunteer officers and men as is their foot.As usual, we have received a very satisfactory drill or their bayonet exercise. report from the Belfast Branch. To add .to their many activities they are now starting a class for WINNING OUT. Semaphore · Signalling. They are making _ a The Director of Organisation 'has, within -the past t'hree weeks, visited the Waterford, Limer- minute study of £he rifle, cleaning and usin,g it. ick, Tralee, Enniscorthy, ancLBelfast Battalions Their First .Aid Classes are going on vigorously. They have just held a Rifle Raflle, and the proand conferred with the Commanding Officers. The spirit everywhere is splendid, training pro- ceeds are sufficient to purchase an ambulance ceeds apace; and equipment is being completed . outfit. I nto the bargain they have kindly been In every area visited the local Battalion is returned . the rifle for the use of the members str6nger numerically, better trained and armed , qf Cumann na :nBan. .A Cycling Corps is bei;n_g and ·noticeably more popular and influential ~n formed next month, for First .Aid convenience, the· comrilunitv than on the oecasion of ·s imilar , scouting -and"signalling purposes; The balance of the Whist Drive. held on January 25th went to visits last year. In each of the towns named' t'he Irish Volunteers have literally \>On out as far as the Defence of Ireland Fund. Nationalist public opinion is_ concerned.
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and who were busy strengthening and loqp-holing the hedge in front. The men of the supporting section, ha ving finished their work of preparing the for eground, were filing through a gap in t.he hedge and making for their own hedge in the rear. Cornelius was annoyed to see that they had cut down a tree he had hoped to use as a range-guage . while h~ had been too busy swear; ing at his men to notice. In the distance he could hear sporadic firing, which showed that the advanced troops were already . engaged. The hedge being now more or less adapted to -his satisfaGtion, he ordered his men to cease work and resume their tunics . E ach man made himself comfortable by his own loophole, and Cornelius sat down to take a well-earned rest. .As an afterthought he 'detailed a c ouple of men to heap up some j!tgged stones in a convenient place .
Cornelius looked along - the lines · of " Y " Battalion, sizing up. the men who were to bear the brunt of the.· fight . His own section was a sample of the whole. He had fourteen men left. One, Kelly, had a magazine rifle; six had Martinis ; three had Howth guns ; the rest had shot guns . Cornelius issued ·his orders. " Kelly you can start firing at 400 if you have a tardet · ~iar tinis, you hold your fire till they r each that bu.s h at . 220.; ~he res~, wait for point blank. .Anyone firmg wildly will <Yet the rifle-butt. Murphy, 'keep your . mfernal iiead down." Somewhere up the line a few rifles went off. "That's that weak-kneed- idiot Mooney," mused Cornelius. "He never could keep his men in order." .And louder, "Let's have none of that in this section.'l The section grinned .
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The sound of firing came nearer, and a stray bullet broke a branch above a ·man's head. "Wish I was in- support," · muttered the .man. Cornelius was wishing the same, for he put no great reliance OJl his section. His best squad leader-one Muldoon, a hard -chaw~had been taken away to train recruits, a.nd six of his best men were acting as Section Commanders in newly-raised units. Their places had been taken by raw young Volunteers who had merely been trained how to sigh,t, the staff not being prepared to waste ammunition in teaching them to shoot. He looked a=iously at two conscripts who did not seem at all comfortable, and tllought grudgingly of his three best shots, t he only men in his section who had . magazine rifles, who had been thrown forw ard with a thin line of other snipers to harass tlie advancing enemy from hedge to hedge and lure him to his destruction against the one which Cornelius was swearing.
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Nearer came the firing . .A running Volunteer appeared in the foreground and made for the gap which had· been left for the fatigue _party and which Cornelius had -forgotten to clqse. It was young· Kelly, one of the snipers. "Where are the others?'' asked Co.rnelius. '' H-ll, '' said Kelly between gasps. Cornelius ordered a · man to close the gap. Kelly selected a place for him-
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Half an hour later. The line was thin - b-ut had been thinner, for some of the support~ had ?een sent up to fill the gaps. There was a pause m the firing. .A firing position to the left had been fqught for and lo&t. Cornelius had seen a countei'-attack . by' two companies of pikemen . c~·ump.le up. N~bo_dy came back . ~ow suddenly right m fr?nt 9• him the enemy broke cover and came 011 with a rush. He watched the lonO' dense se~thing line, fascin ated. Kelly, wound:d, was finng slowly. Then came the crack of Martinis and the boom of Howth guns . One of the shotgun men pulled a futile trigO'el'. Cornelius woke 0 up and cursed furiously . The line came on . "Now, boys." The shot guns joined in the frav. Nex t minute the enemy was raO'i.ri"' amon"' the 0 0 barbed wire and bushes. "' ·:C.
The ~ave ha? gon~ back, but only temporarily . Cornelms thanKed 111s stars and the thickness of the hedge. Bt!t in a 'short time machine-guns had been turned on that stout defence and after a lavish expenditure of ammunition 'th.inned it out. The firing line of the defenders was also thinned, and again the enemy came on. . -
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.At it, hand-to-hand in the ruins of the hedO'e. Some men, having exhausted all their ammu;ition, have been throwing stoiies . Some turn to.
The National Festival will be' :fittingly celebrated by ·the great Irish Concert org~nised for the Rotunda Rink . ' '.I.he Committee in charge has secured the· services of some of the best IrishIreland artistes, and a highly enjoyable programme, including some items not hitherto heard on the National concert platform has been drawn up. The function will be well 'worth attending if only for the address by a well-known Irish-I~ela!ld priest, one of the younger men who may be relied upon to carry on the virile tradition of the Wexford '98 priests and of the veteran Father Matt Ryan of our own day. The function is being organised by the Committee of the Central Branch, Sinn Feiri, who have decided to allot one-third of the proeeeds to the equipment fund of the Publin Brigade, Irish Volunteers . The c~arges for admission are 3s., 2s ., ls., and 6d. Tickets for the 3s. and 2s. seats may be secured in advance at the Sinn Fein Bank, 6 Harcourt Street. Doors open at 7 p.m.
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· · 3. To w0 rk by sections:4; To advance PY ragged' rushes, 2 by 2 cfeep!. ing or doubling according to the' nature of the ground. · 5 . To ke~p correct interval, not to crowd OT scatter. · . · · . 6. To take cover, ch 0dsing it in advance. 7. 'ro obey promptly the .commands of the Seetion Commander, and, if he is put out of a.ction, to continue the advance. 8. If retirement is necessary, to keep cool and retire by Sections. In conclusion, I would susrn:est that before ~ t~~ tempting this work with · your men you should study the art icles on J:i'ield Trainin;; in THE IRISH VoLUNTEER of .April 1st, 17th, 24th~ and May 1st and 8th, .~915 . Turn them up on your file, or if you ha-y:ep.'t g_ot a file, s~nd to ;Headquarters for back numbers . Next week-I shall explain some other branches of the programme.
LETTER UL . ti-ow TO CARRY OUT THE PROGRAMME OF TRAINING GIVEN '1-AST Y{E EK . . ..A CHARA, . . ., In my first letter I warned you not to wasfe time on close order drill. Now this does not mean that drill is to be cut - right out; on the contrary, you will see by the programme I suggested last week that I recommended that ev~ry night's work should begin ,with close order dnll, lasting about 15 or {!0 minutes. This is .essential for the proper discipline of the Company; it gives men 'the h abit of obeying orders promptly and .accurately, and at the same time "'ives the commander an opportunity of learning how to -handle his men. Withol!t a thorough good course in drill the best and most enthusiastic men in Ire~---·•!• hnd, or anywhere. else, are nothing but a mob. So when I say that your men probably know A Nl:W "TRACT FOR THE TIMES." enough close order drill you will understand that Mr. P. H. Pearse's "Ghosts" appeared last no time is to be "jVasted · in teaching them the week as No. 10 of "Tracts for the Times ." On beauties of Battalion· drill or such like, but neither are they to be allowed to forget the Sec- sale everywhere at a penny. _ Wholesale from Whelan & Son, 17 Upper Ormond Quay. tion and Company drill they know, and forge.t, with it the lessons cf discipline it stands for . It is true that close order . drill is very little use in . LANGUAGE W EE K. face of the enemy, ·but remember that cl.rill is only a means to an end. The end is J?iscipline. A Conference of Workers in the ·Gaelic .Leao-ue of Dublin will be held in the Oak Room, Man~on EXTENDED ORDER. . Far "different froni drill is the work I suggested House, on Friday, March 10th, at 8 p .m. The Coiste Ceanntair asks all city craobhacha to be for the third tw!olnty minutes of the first week's - training. · Exterided order is .often erroneously _w~ll repre!\ent~d· ~t the meeting,_ and.. it invites friendly orgamsations to send as many of their called "extended order drill.'' No greater mistake ·members as may be willing and able to o-ive us could be made . .. Extension is a tactical exercise, active assistance in the Language Collection. · ~n elementary manceuvre. Drill trains men to SEAN MAC GroLLANATHA, Secretary. obey orders. Ext ension, as far as it goes, teaches men how to fight. You should explain that to your men; tell them that while ·orders CROUPS!. CROUPS! CROl,IPS! are · always to · be obeyed promptly, in extenSion the same precision and regularity of .movement is not necessary and should not be aimed at. Your explanati0n might contmue thus : Extension is necessary on account of the long Photographic Group Specialists. range-of modern firearms. It is used to approach within striking distance of a well armed enemy by day; this is done by sending forward a suc·cession of extended skirmish lines to build up a firing line. Two considerations govern the ex'Phone 2902. tension : 1. Enemy's fire; 2. Nature of ground. The good point about extension is that it el!ables GAELS! Remember an a force to advance with the minimum loss of men Irish Irelander when you -a nd discipljne, while its only drawback is, it want New or Secondhand weakens control and fire effect. The conclusion Typewriters, Duplicators, from this last consideration is that the extension Stencils, Stencil Ink, RibshouJd be as little as is absolutely necessary. bons, Carbons, Papers, etc. ~ In .training men in extended order they should .Any. make of Typewriter 'be accustomedRepa,ired. · I. To work in pairs at any interval. 2. To keep a fairly straight line. and not mask THE FOLEY TYPEWRITER TRADING CO., one another's fire. Reis Chambers, DUBLIN. Telephone 117Y.
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IV.-THE DISGRACEFUL SCENES AT SCHWECHAT. 'J.'he following describes a griev·o us blunder by the raw Hungarian Staff on· the eve of the :battle of Schwechat, which haq far-!·eachiD:g results:" Scarcely .1:_!.ad darkness quite set m, wheri the officer of the General's Staff, Nemegyei, ·present with our left wing, saw visions which, with a rare scrupulosity and to our iw little trouble, he committed to paper, ' t_!i.at we had already been turned.' '.l.'he Raab scythe-bearers, consisting of ·several thousands., were immediately sent ' · 'thither from the reserve for -the security of , the left wing. They reached the camp of my brigade without accident. · Frcim ·us they had, perhaps, still half an hour's march. to th"e ·ideally-meiiaceci point:· but the ordnance officer. of the left wing, who had been appointed tci conduct them £hither, lost the direction, and led them ·circuitously about during several h 0 urs, till a t last they stopped from ·sheer exhaustion, and left to Nemegfei alone · the 1meqiial combat with the spectral tur_n ing-column of the enemy. "Insignificant as this incident seemed to be, it act,u.ally exerted .an important influence on the di"sgraceful 'i ssue of the approaching ·battle. The troops of almost the whole eentre, but especially those 0f its left wing-my brigade-were already, early in the morning of the· 30th, physically exhausted, morally shaken . They had had no rest, and were .quite unable to resist the fa t al effects of the terrible rumours bf the precedirio- nio-ht . .As I had foretold, I saw the .enthusiasi:, which had-reafly been very vividly kindled by the President's fine speeches in the Parendorf Camp already on the point of extinc-tion. We had lost h t e battle before it. had begun.'' In the battle some Hungarian battalions came unexpectedly under fire. "By his ·f irst shots he at once threw my battalions into irremediable confusion, The Gomor National Gu.a rds ran away first .' These were followed by the Ho:riter Volunteers,, _aft~r they · had overturned their com. · mander, horse and all, in his endeavours to stop them . . . . ·I had not observed what w·as taking place in the first Pesth battalion. I now found it also already in confusion; and its eommander, the N ational Guard Major, Coµnt Ernest .Almassy, almost beside himself with exhaustion, i~ consequenc'? of his strenuous efforts to keep _ hrs m~n toge~her . . . . Captain G6zon, of the battalion, seized the banner, ran ahead wit-'1 iP ~oi:e than .f ifty pa,ces towards the enemy, planted_ it m the . ground, and cried · in Huno-arian 'Hither, Magyar! , here wa_ves thy bannerl' ' • "Rrom thirty to forty --0f the. m0st..coUI"ao-eous _ 0 followed the intrepid man. But while the foremost rank joine'1 them only laggardly, those behi~d deserted 1pore and more; and after a few mmutes the battalion resembled a mis-shapen elongated reptile, for the greater number crawled away on alf fours, while those who fled erect tum_bled over them. In vain did Captain G6zon a~a1n hold up the banner, wave it- high in the '.'Ill", :J:nd ~xhaust himself with inspiring shouts; m vam did the commander of" the battalion with his adjutant, at last fall on the fugitives...'.....they were no longer to be stepped. .And even those . few who had advanced at G6zon's first call quickly 'deserted him. again one after the other'. and he soon stood there alone with . the banner.'l Of the N ograd Volunteer battalion only one · d f h h ma~ remame out o t e· general flig t~ ''Thus out of nearly 5,000 of those National Guards and Volunteers, _about whose valour I h ad already . heard so many tifades, who, as they themselves h_ad repe·a tedly asserted, were bui'ning with desire to measure themselves with an enemy whom they never mentioned but with the greatest contempt-there remained to me after a short ·hostile cannonade ·a single man. . .• The other' brigades were said-incredible as it seems- to have taken to their heels even before· mine ..- .. The firmness -with which at Nikelsdorf r had opposed the President's urging to the offensive proved, I should think, clearly enough that I was perfectly prepared for an unfortunate debut of these 'inspired legions'; but what I had just experienced far exceeded my worst apprehensions." · Gorgei now sent his staff " after the fugitives, to stop and assemble as ma!ly as they possibly could," so as to put some kind of a rearguard between the flying army and . the 4ustrians. "The result of their -exertions was hopelessly small, about 1,000 men in all, and even these were continually on the point of runnino- away again." Fortunately the --.Austrians did not pursue. . '
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