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The following, says the "Daily Independent,'' are the figures of Irelau.d's taxation:. 1913-14 ... £11,134,500 1914- 15 12,389,500 18,185,420 1915-16 (approximate) 26,722,000 1916-17 (estimated) '!'hat is ..a,ll ~t. We are safe in the hands of the IFish Party. They have watched over the increase and will go on watching over the future increase. Let nobody attempt -to stab them in the part turned towa~rds Ireland.
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The Irish ·Party ha.s accepted. the Budget resolutioIJ,,S imposing · the last increase. Sir Thomas Esmende spoke on behalf of the Party. What _he said I don't know till I meet somebody who has ·seen a ". Freeman's Journal." The " Daily Independent" did not report the converted Sinn Feiner~ but that was to be expected from a ProGerman organ of Bogus .Agitation. I looked up the Pro-Russian " Irish Times." "Sir Thomas Esmonde ," it said, " also spoke." That was all. The record of the frish Party in regard to an estimated annual t;axation of Twenty-six or Twenty-seven Millions from Ireland may be summed up in the words ".Also ran ." · ··
BY EOIN MAC NEILL. SATURD'AYL~PRJL
15th, 1916. ·
Bangor Poor Law Board lono- a&o, a Guardian complained to the Chairma~ t .nat a brother Guardian had called him- a swindler. · "I r~it,~rat~ it,'' said the other.". " Oh, very we_JI, su-, said the offended one, " if he reiterates it, I'm satisfied to forget all about it. " Mr. Healy reiterated Mr. O'Brien. · Mr. Chancellor lVIcKenna said his honour was satisfied. " IreJ~nd,'' he said, "had no special claim for exempt10n from taxation, which did not hit Ireland more hardly than any otheT part of the country. In the second pla:ce, Ireland was whole-heartedly in sympathy with the cause wliich the United Kingdom and he1' .Allies l'epi:esented." That'll larn her! So, according to tl;te Government, the extra taxes on Ireland are imposed on the luxury of the Sharp Curve . " If there a re grievances," said Mr. McKenna, "this is not the time to investigate them." Quite so. We are now looking after Belgium and Serbia. "If there are grievances P-Mr. McKenna soon recovered from this slip of the tongue and gave Mr. O'Brien a slap in the face: "If he were to -deal with the matter now, he would · say that, having regard to the prosperity of Ireland, no case had been or COl!.ld be made out." After that, let Mr. Redmond and Mr. Dillon think twice before they attempt to make out a case. .A more insolent defiance could harC!ly be ima<>ined. Mr. Chancellor l\1cKenna knows we]J that what he calls " the p1·osperity of Ireland,'' meaning the temporary _rise in agricultural pric·e s, will collapse altogether in a very short time, and that the taxation will not collapse.
M:r. Redmond~ under - Government auspices, has supplied the .American Press w,ith another * * interview. If the interview was not pleasing to It is nothi1ig short of silliness, from the Irish the Government, it would not reach .Amei·ica. standpoint; to base any argument at present on If I sent my views, the Government would inter·fere . But for the first time Mr. Redmond is the relative taxable capacity of Ireland. There forced t-0 admit that, the frish in Ame1'ica are not "'is such a thing as absclutE; taxable capacity, and with him. "My message to the Irish in there is an unfailing test for it. When the drain America," says :f!:is Imperial Maje!>ty, "is that of wealth from a country is such that the poputhey should extend t;o Ireland what Ireland has lation is decreasing, then that country has ever demanded from England- Home Rule leav- reached the limit of its taxable capacity, and ing ~reland to decide the questions of to-day as any further increase of taxes must necessarily she sees fit and for herself." Why does not Mr. diminish the population and the prosperity of :Redmond set the example? He has just inter- the country. Ireland has been submerged below fered publicly .to prevent Ireland deciding .as she the taxable limit for three ·quarters of a century sees fit, and has plainly told his SUP.porters that before the l!·ar. Depopulation at an increased he · is their• cons-eienee and the master of their rate and general impoverishment are the certain \\'hat rights to decide, and that they must decide as consequenees of the present taxation. he sees fit-which means as the G·o vernment sees advantages can Ireland hope to gaii:J. to compenfit . Still I ·do not quarrel with the latest defini- sate her certain loss? ferh aps the "Irish tion of Home Rule. It is not Home Rule on the Times " could tell u s. Statute Book . The Home Rule .Act expressly * * forbids Home Rule according to Mr. Redmond's The only motive that Messrs . ·Redmond and · definition, and if the Irish in .America were to . Dillon can see in demanding immunity from . propose to place any sucn restrictions on Irish ruinous tax_ation is a desire' to break up the autonomy as that .Act proposes, all Ireland would Irish Party. .Accordingly, every possible wire protest much more v.igorously than Mr. Red- . is being pulled to prevent people saying what mond · is now protesting against the men who they think, or to make them unsay what they sent him and the Irish Party 750,00U dollars . have said. 'l'his all arises from a morbid sense "Ireland,'' says Mr . Redmond, "is nO\\'. a self- of the unsound position of the Irish Party. So governing portion of the British Einpire, with far as I am aware, except the typical unconall her interests bound up in the future of that verted Unionist, nobody in Ireland is particularly Empire." li. Ireland is now self-governing, then anxious to see the country littered with the reIreland is 'now of her · own free will imposing mains of the Irish Party. For. my part I am £27,000,000 of annual taxation on herself. Ire- willing to subscribe to buy as much twine as will la;nd also, in that case, has entrusted .£he liberty hold the Party together until the Liberals have of Irishmen to the private counsels of ex- the opportunity, which they are no doubt dying Inspector Major Price and ex-General Harrell. for, to redeem their pledges. Ireland directs the operations of " Ireland's * * Army" in a manner which, as Mr. Redmond h as The great champion of liberty and so on for said in the Imperial Parliament, gives Mr. Redmond a nightmare. "In the future of that all .countries in which the suppression of liberty Empire,'' the. Irish in .America are told, "all her is not an imperial necessity has pounced a interests are bound up." Let us hope that care second time on Ernest' Bly eh~ and Liam .\11ellows has been previously used to apply an antiseptic and carried them off to England. .As a provincial dressing. There is danger of gangrene in the paper points out, when sending them to iail bandage material. 'l'he " message " to the Irish proved a failure, some · place worse than jail had to be chqsen for their punishment. This is a in .America is equal to saying: " Good-bye, I have no more use for you. Busy atoning for past particularly brutal and want_on· outrage on Irish disloyalty and piling up a debt of gratitude. liberty. While Mr. Redmond is· encouraging this sort of ·thing in order to pile up the debt of Goodbye!" gratitude, there is another debt also piling up, * M:r. William O'Brien and Mr. T. M. Healy and the account.of it is being kept. Questioned ra.ised a sort of protest against· the overtaxaiion as to the reason for depriving Blythe and of Ireland. Mr. O'Brien came near to making Mellows of their liberty without trial, Mr. Birrell the main point clear, as it has been made clear · alleged "sedition and prejudicing recruitment." by M:r. Thomas Sexton. The main point is that But these crimes have already been brought to there is now no question · of relative taxable trial, and tribunals · have been gqt to convfot capacity. The absol ute taxable capacity of Ire- against the weight of evidence. We may, thereland has been exceeded and far exceeded. But fore, conclude that the pious and conscientious with this point in view, Mr. O'Brien only Castle has resolved to turn over a new leaf and weakened his case by raising a variety of other to give up prostituting its witnesses and its points that are insignificant in comparison. He · tribunals. That is a distinct gain for public · ended his statement with the extraordinarily in- . decency. For a while, too, the pretence was kept .effective prediction that " the .All-for-Ireland up that the Castle was nqt governing Ireland ·Party would have to consider very carefully under martial Jaw. N·ow that pretence also is whether it would not be their, duty to restate abandoned, and ·a nother ·victory for the truth has the claims of Ireland again and again:'' If that been wrested from the hypoc1·ites . On a former is all, Mr. l\1cKenna will not resign. .At the occasion, Mr. Devlin, _lVLP., demanded that these
PRICE ONE PENNY. very _men, Blythe and Mellows, should be brought to tnal for some stated c:liarge. The Irish Party passed some resolution' about it that never wae published. We can see how much importance the Government attaches to Mr. Devlin and the Irish Party, and who are the peQPle really engaged in bringing tli.e Irish Party into contempt •
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"Spreadi.Ilg Disaffection."-At Sixmilebridge, Co. Clare, Michael Brennan, Captain of Irish Volunteers, has been sentenced to three months' imprisonment with hard labour fo1, "endeavouring to spread disaffection among His Majesty's subjects." The evidence showed that his endeavour to spread disaffection consisted in telling the Irish Volunteers, what l have repeatedly to~'ll them, to · resist any attempt at disarming . them. The Gove1:nment evidently does not be· lieve that armed Irishmen, not ··under its own control, are capable of any affection towards it. " Spfeading .Affection." .,.-.At a Government recruiting meeting at Gurteen, Co. Sligo, the sight of some men in the crowd wearing the Irish tricolour-green, white and orange, drew the oratorical fire of a recruiting officer. He called the men " swine," "idiots," and "cross-bred bastards." He said "men .were not aslled to· fight for England but for Ireland, and whoever were preventing the Germans from coming here, it was not the Sinn Feiners: It \\'f!S the duty' of Irishmen to -fight for their dirty little mud-heaps of. ho.uses amf tlTeir dirty little shOps." I hope this is up to the standard of Mr. Birrell's new lmperii;tlist patriotism, which is to take the place of our local prejudi_ces. .A century of Predom!iiant ,Partnership has left' us these glories to fight for. .A few years of Iml'.erialist taxation will replace the dirty little mudheaps of house& and the- dirty little shops of Gurteen and .such places by nice picturesque wallsteads. In the meantime, observe the candid description of Chan.c ellor l\1cKenna's Irish prosperity in the neiglibourhood of Ballaghadereen. . . * * * The " Irish Times," in a leading article on Mr. .Asquith, makes little or rather nothing of th~ appeals continually addressed to us on the silbje'Ct of Ireland's .war and our duty towards other small nationalities. The editor disdains the· pretence that the war was caused by or is being fought about anything that 11appened or is alleged to have happened since the war began .. It dates Mr. Asquith's preparations for the war back to 1909, five years before the war. "Two· years later,'' it goes on, that is, in 1911, three· years before the war began, "it must have become plain to him (unless- which is incrediblehe was kept in the dark .by' his colleagues) th:at a war between Germany and France could not be long delayed , that, in view of our genetaJ policy and our specific commitments, we should probably. be obliged to take part in it, and that our part would include the despatch of a considerable force abroad." It is hardly likely, indeed, that Mr . .Asquith was kept in the dark, but if the " Irish Times " wishes to know what amount of keeping colleagues in the dark wasindulged in, it might endeavour to draw knowled&_e from such members of the former Ministry as i\fr. John Burns. Mr. Redmond was also adroitly handled, and, as I pointed out last week, his statesmanship never became aware of the German menace to Ireland until lie received his orders from the Government just at the outbreak of the war. "We cannot deny;" says the· • ' t0". "the adroitness with which he (Mr. .Asquith) managed to give to everyone in turn ' (of the groups on which the existeuce of th:eGovernment depended) the necessary Sllp to' retain its allegiance, yet never let any of them feel tliat, having obtained its immediate object, · it was now free to turn and bite its benefactor." Here is disclosed the true estimate in which typical well-informed Unionist circles nold the value of - Mr. Redmond's services. .A Colonial Pi·emier can drive the hardest bargain for hiscountry both in the form of present advantages and of .a rrangements to follow the war, but Mr .. Redmond is afraid of the consequences if he· should allow himself or anybody else under 'hie august command to face honestly the question of the· ruinous effects of present taxation on Ireland. Ireland must pay " her fair share " towards the expenses of "policy and commitments " years older than the Home Rule Bill, and towards the la vish loal].s of millions by theaid of which the self-governing dominic;ms "present a united front," and Mr. Redmond refuses to consider whether economic ruin. and depopulation on a grand scale can be properly included under the Free Gifts of a Free People. His sole
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anxiety in his sole utte1:ance on the subiect is for the Irish Party. Special messages and messengern are fiyi.ng around to choke off honest HEADQUARTERS BULLETIN expre'ss'ion of opinion. ]\fr. Redmond is himself destroying an_d . demoralising his party, and he The Central Executive of the Irish Volunteers might h ave learned by now, if he is capable of - 'G1on6L ~o 1'.>i <15 ·com<tlfll e 5 n6t.i. fetnne learning, tha t his . manufactured votes of , f .&1L 1n<t nUGnpOfl(; (;fl.& t n6n<t Ce<tu a o tn, met at Headquarters on 'vednesday evening, acquiescence in ruinous taxation will profit him 5 5th inst., Commandant P . H. Pearse and subse: and the P arty no more than the futile votes of <tn <t"O l.6. ue'n mi ro, :Os ur <tn Ce<tnn quently Professor Eoin Mac Neill, Presid.e nt, in _ confidence hitherto supplied to order. It all goes C<tt<t P.6.Ufl.6! C m.ac ·p1<1·fl<l.1f <l.S Uf tn<l. "01.6.1"0 the chair. · back to lVIr. Asquith's adroit management, and ftn .an (;Orne eom m~c ne1tl, U<tG(;<tfl.&n, Various arrangements were made with regar~ the prepara tions since 1909. . tn.d. sce<tnnur . to the movements of Organisers, ~ Equipment; · * * * 'Oo ro c ru1~ e.a"O .a Un ne1te uo 1'.>.d.tn le and to Finance. Certain appointments of officers were sancSo the Right Honourable Mr. JustiCe Boyd h1mte<tC(;d11'.> n.a ut::1mt1f1i .as ur le curr.J.11'.> tioned. has retired from the Bench. He was very vigorous when las t heard from, and the news- -0.!'m.6.ld .6.SUf .<\1f1S1"0. Headquarters, 2 Dawson Street, 'Oo h.a1nmu15e<t-O 11oin1m 01r1 s e.ac. papers do not say that he is broken do.w n in D111blin, 5th Apr., 1916. ·he"a lth . I recommended him for a peerage with Vunpofl-r; na f emne, the title of Lord Boyd of Crossmaglen, but the .<5.t CL1.at, 5 .<\1b., 1916. Government has been content to . reward his faithful services with a . baronetcy. That is the · -0.rnmmE;t e . worst of being only a bitter Whig. If he had stu,0.5 con.c,o.15e-0.n ce,o.v c,o.t. !!-ASTER MANCEUVR ES, 1916. been a renegade Home Ruler like Lord O'Brien -0.n C.6.p(;.60n Se.6n 0 muflC<t"O.a cum 1'.>e1t he would have been a lord too . Sir Walter Boyd, General Orders. Bart., will now h ave leisure to write his memoirs, m<t le.6.r- Ce.6.nn C.at.d. being no longer engaged in reproving perjury and .· -0.n le<tr C.6p(;.aon Se.&n ·O nu.all.ain, ue 1. In connection with the Easter Manceuvres fabrication and unconscionable juries. A full Compl.i.c(; -6., cum 1'.>e1t in.a Cap(;.ao n .<!.:Sur ordered in General Orders of 3rd A19ril; 1916, and true account from him of the Crossma<>"len one-clay or two-day bivouacs may, at tne disConspiracy, a s a chapter in ;the history of Lib~ral 1n.a Cons.an(;61fl uo'n Ce.ann C.t.t.a. , -0.n _le.ar-C.ap(;<tOn C. 0 :S orm.&in, ue cretion of Brigade or Battalion Commandants, Government in Ireland, would sell like hot cakes. be arranged in suitable localities. What has ;i,ppeared in THE IBISH VoLPNTEER is Conipt.ac(; "{), cum 1:'>e1t 1n...a C.ap(;.6.on .dfl .dn . 2. In cases where it is not possible 'to arrange I).ot nearly so interesting as what has still to sCompl.dC(; rm. for fi eld opera tions, route marches or concentrabe disclosed . . But why did Sir Walter i:e,t~re? . -0.n (;()5L.6.c Se.in mdc eoinin cum 1'.>e1t tion of neighbouring units will be held . EoIN l\'1Ao NEILL. 3. While the point of mobilisation may or may 1·n<l. C.6PC<1on. · not be announced to the Companies beforehand, ~n Ce.ann Roinne Ro1be.6fl'O l.an:srofl'O in WHERE AND WHEN TO DRILL IN DUBLIN. accordance with local conditions, an 'effort will cum 1'.>e1t m.i. le<l.r- C<tp(;.aon foc(;.alfl "1fl be made to send the mobilisation order to every Recruits may enrol in the Dublin Brigade at CompL.ac(; C. individual Volunteer, so as to test each Comany of the undermentioned drill' centres:pany's ability to get into immediate touch with m1re, C0mpanies. BATT. I. p.<5.VR.0.1C m-0.c P1-6.R0.1 S , all its members. A. Monday, 8 p.rn., Colmcille Hall, 5 Blackhall Ce.6.nn C.6.t.6., Street. P.H. PEARSE, Commandant, B. Monday, 8 p.m., 41 Parnell Square. Director of Organisation. Rl.6.fl.6.1"0e .<l.n 01\'0U!Ste. ·C. Thursday, 8 p .m., 41 Parnell Square. 'Ounpofl(; n.a feinne, H eadquart ers, 2 Dawson SW.:eet, D. Friday, 8 p .m.., Colmcille Hall, 5 BlackhaH .<5.t CLMt, 5 ,6.1b., 1916. Dublin, 8th Apr ., 1916 • . Street. F. Thursday, 8 p .m ., 25 Par:i;iell Square. G. Wednesday, 8 p.m ., Colmcille Hall, 5 BlackField Service Kit issued by Headquarters. It hall Street . is important that our men should accustom BATT. II. NOTES FROM HEADQUARTERS. themselves to marching with all their baggage, ·B. Tuesday, 8 p.m ., Father Mathew Park, Fairand that they should make themselves adepts in · view. the art of disposing their baggage about their C. Wednesday, 8 p.m., 25 P arnell Square. THE EASTER MANCEUVRES. persons with the maximum of speed, comfort, D·. Sunday morning, 11 a.m:, Father Mathew It. is hoped that Commandants an(! Company and convenience. Similarly, the Company P ark, Fairview. Commanders everywhere are making suitable Equipment should be always on the spot, and E. Wednesday, 8 p.m., Father Mathew Park, arrangements for the Easter Manceuvres. 1'.he though not necessarily to be carried on every Fairview . word manreuvre~ is perhaps too ambitious a parade, a t least always a vailable when required. F. Thursday, 8 p.m ., Father Mathew Park, description of the kind of operations which Fairview. ARMOURING . Headquarters -h as in view. '£he · exercise is G. Tuesday, 8 p.m., Lamh Dearg Hall, Glas- really intended '.3-S a test of our power to get our One of last week's notes deserves to be renevin, at Botanic Avenue. , ·1 men together m full numbers and with full peated. and emphasised. It is that all rifles, BATT. III. equipment. In the better organised Brigade r evolver s, and automatics in the possession 0£ A. Monday, 8 p.m., Camden Row and 41 York Districts, such as Dublin, Galway, Limerick, Volunteers should be tested, and any defects Street. . -· Kerry, Cork, and Wexford; a field operation of observed in them remedied. It should also be B. Tuesday, 8 p.m., No. 144 Gt. Brunswick St. some little magnitude should follow; and in some made certain that the bayonets fit the rifles in C. Thursday, 8 p.m., Camden Row and 41 York of these cases bivouacs to extend over one of the every case . Many guns have some slight defecfi . Street. nights of the Easter Holidays are being arranged which the Company Armourer can easily make D. Thursday, 8 p .. m., Thorncastle Street, Rings- for. Elsewhere a route march or a concentration good . Another point to be seen to is that every end. of two or three local corps will perhaps 'be man has cleaning apparatus for his gun. E. Monday, 8 p .m., Cullenswood House, Oakley sufficient. The Brigade Commandants in every Road . THE UPWARD WAVE . well-organised area, and in the less wellF. Weanesday, 8 p.m.·, Dalkey and Dunleary, organised areas· the Battalion Commandants or The cause of the Irish Volunteers is now 71 Patrick Street, Kingstown. Company Commanders should think out a u seful sweeping up on a wave of public sympathy BATT. IV. scheme for the local command. similar to that which followed 1Iowth and A. Monday, 8 p.rn., Larkfield, Kimmage. Bachelor' s Walk. In Dublin many hundreds of B . Tuesday, 8 p .m., Larkfield, Kimmage. EQUIPMEN T. recruits have joined the ranks within the past C. Thursday, 8 p.m., Larkfield, Kimmage. ten days. Now is the time for every officer and Company Commanders should get their men D. Friday, 8 p .m., Larkfield, Kimmage. into the habit of turning out with full equip- every ma11 to put whatever manhood, whatever E . Monday, 8 p.m., Rathfarnham. ment on all occasions of public parade . Full power of hard and concentrated work is in him, F. Monday and 'l'hursday, 8 p.m., Emmet Hall, equipment means not only· full arms and amm uni- into the task of completing our organisation, Inchicore. tion but bandolier or pouch, haversack, wa ter- training, and equipment. The country expects G. Tallaght and Clondalkin, Monday and bottle, mess-tin, knapsack, overcoat, and all the great things of us, and the way to answer the Thursday. paraphernalia mentioned in the Leaflet on the call of the country is to set our teeth and wo r~. Sympathisers with the movement wh.o cannot join a Company may enrol themselves in the Irish VolUnteer· Auxiliary. Forms of application for membership can, be Ho-w a Frem:h Section said" Merde!'' . procured from The Irish Volunteer Headqua rters, l! Dawson Street. There are the following Special additional There is a tradition that when the AnglOWe hope that everyone will remember to supDrills for Recruits : · Prussian cavalry at Waterloo called on Gen. port our concert for the Defence of Ireland Fund Saturday afternoon, 4 p.m. to 6 p .m., Father Cambronne's rallying-squares of the Old Guard on the 16th, at 41 Parnell Square. It will begin Mathew Pa:rk, Fairview; Camden Road, to surrender, the General replied "The Guard at 8, and it is expected to be one of the best and Larkfielld, Kimmage Road. dies; it does not surrender." Now this was quite Sunday mornings, 11 a .m. to 1 p.m., same concerts of the whole season. \Ve hope the true, but it was. not what the General said. In centres. object of the concert,will appeal to all, even those the French Army they know that what he who would prefer to hear no .more music for the actually did say was "Merde !" This is a hardpresent . Tickets can be ha'd at 2 Dawson Street THE DUIBLIN BRICADE. chaw expression of derision, and is the one ever from Miss Maeve Ryan, or can be had at the since used in the French Army by any detachdoor on the night of the concert. ment that means to fight to a finish. In the ORD E RS FOR W EE K ENDIN G · The Branch at Fairview wishes to ·announce recent fighting around Verdun there occurred the APHI L 16th, -1916. that they now m~et a t the Fr. Mathew Park , at latest example. · 1. First Aid and Signalling Classes as usual. Two machine-guns commanding a ravine up 2. Usual Lecture for Officers on Tuesday and 8.30 on Monday and Friday. vVe would suggest that Branches in remote which the Germans were about to advance got Saturday, at 8 p .m. jammed, and there was no possibility of getting 3. The Engineer s of 3rd and 4th Battalions districts should act as distributing agents for more immediately : it was necessary to gain a will parade at Kimmage on Saturday, 15th inst., national literature , Cumann na mBan tracts, little time. A lieutenant called for fifteen rifleTracts for the Times, etc . They could order at 3.30 p.m. men to gain tlie time with, and led them to the supplies of them and sell them throughout their M . W . O'REILLY, Deputy Adjt. gap where the machine-guns had been. All but district . - - - -•!•- - - one were to lie down in readiness, one to keep Several new Brm1ches have affiliated since our firing into the attacking enemy as fast as he last issue: Ballyroe (near Tralee) , Donough?Iore AHMS BALLOT. could. ·The others were to succeed him one at Cumann na mBan Executiye are holding a (in Cork), Newbridge (Co. Derry), Chapehzod; a time. Drawing for Arms on Wednesday, April 19th. and E n niscorthy and Killarney have restarted. '£he first soldier had only fired three shots Anv Branches that have started and have not Eoin Mac Neill has kindly consE)nted to draw the when he was killed, and the second only manl!-ged yet W'ritten to Headquarters ought to communiwinning numbers . five. The third had better luck arid m;maged Entry is £1, and the Drawing is open to all cate at once with u s, as we have much valuable to empty his magazine twice. The others conVolunteer Companies. Also to ·cumann na information to give. tinued with varying fortune. By the time· fresh We hope Branches all over the country are mBan Branches on the understanding that the machine-guns were got into position there we're trying to collect money for the Defence of Ireland arms are given to the local Volunteers. only .three men still alive. But in the result ·an · First Prize consists Of 20 Guns ; second and Fund. They should get up entertainments attack was beaten off- at a lo·ss of two machin:esubsequent prizes of 10 Guns· each up to the full wherever possible, as the public is always willing guns and twelve men. to pay money for a goo!l entertainment. • amount of money subscribed .
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" Rome,. 3rd APf'il, " Acco rding t o i nf ormat ion from a most '.r eliable sou rce, in the audience which t he Pope .accorded to Mr. A squith, the English Prime Minister drew th e Pope' s attention t o the role which the eatholic Bishops of. Ireland oould
f ulfil in an opportune manner, by interv em11g LETTER IV. with the people t o bring about a union, so desirF I E LD TRAININ G. able at present, with the other parts of the A CHARA, ' British Em.pire. . · Now before your men 1Yill be fit for even the " Mr. A squith assured the Pope·, among either . most elelllentary- manoouvre they must have a thorouo-h training in extension on the lines laid things, that after the w ar the H ome Ru le quesdown i~ my last letter, and, in addition, must be tien would be settled in an equitable manner." adept at taking cover and advancing silently and -From " La Croi x " ( Pa ri s)~ invisibly. Explain to them in what c8ver con-
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We have mentioned in former days Von .k:anonenfutter's remarkable and voluminous work on strategy as being one which the ambitious young Volunteer would be ?empted _to ren,d and which he would be well advised to disregard. There is another boek-or rather class .of. books-which would alse .p robably appeal to him, and _which, if he realise certain conditio1?-s, 1m ight be of real value to him. I refer to .iie hfe .of Napoleon. -~
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If you read ·fifty small Lives of this extraordinary man you will probably be no nearer to the liberation of your country than yoia are now.. lf on the other hand, you read two or three -chapters in a large Life yO'U will find yourself, if not actually on the road to efficiency;. a t least beginning to be capable of understandmg what .efficiency is. For if you confine yourself to t)le ·s mall Lives you will. merely dazzle yourself by the revelation of great projects grandly con.ceived and triumphantly carried through by an :apparently magic intellect, whereas i_f you re~d :a few chosen extracts from a larger Life you will ·see that inteller_t at work, and will realise that there is no magic there but just sheer labour .and energy.
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When the average Volunteer Captain sets out on a task he hands over certain details to his lieutenants, certain others to his Section -Commanders, says " I am sure I _c an rely on :you,'' and having thus washed his. hands of the affair watches as from an eminence the -efforts of' his suborqinates to carry out his -strategy. The said Captain has perhaps seventy .men to his command . He has read of Napoleon .and his Marshals or Hindenburg and his groups, :and he considers this delegation of duties only :fittino- in one of hi1i exalted rank. Has he not ·six s;bordinate officers to dv his biddin~ and attend to tiresome details? Pause, mignty one, and deny it not, ·but from Napoleon learn a lesson.
stJ.dden iIJ.spiration that won the battle of Friedland nor was · it the unfortunate blunders and ill.Iu'ck on the field of Waterloo that cost him his Empire. Both campaigns were ·won and lost bef.t>re they were fought . · It was his ri~;id and mi.Ilute attention to de£aifs · that. would l!Jcji:e a Volunteer squad leader that made Napoleon what he was. • ·
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In his campaign in Poland in 1806- 7 he wrote letters almost every day dealing wiih the supply of boots, the construction of bakeries, and the best means of forwarding bread to his armies. [Transpor.t and supply was not then what it is now.] He had detailed arrangements foi> commandeering all the supplies of the col:lniry :Re was campaigning in, with care_fµl provision that it $hould not be so demanded as to become useBoots were his special care, less or dano-erous. 0 for if the old maxim fold · him tha t. an army ma~ches on its belly, he sensibly replied that it . also marched on its feet. Here is a sample of one of his orders: " Every detachment coming from Paris or Boulogne µ'ill start, each man with a pair of shoes besides two pairs in :Ii.is knapsack. At Mayence they will receive another pair to replace that wo.rn on the Il\arch ._ At Magdeburg tney will receive another pair to replace that worn on the march from Mayence to Magdebocg, s() that every m_an may reach .h~s corps with a pair of shoes on his feet and a pair in his knapsack." * * · *
It may safely be said, especially after reading a full account of .this terrible campaign, tha~ not Napoleon's tactical genius nor the enthusiasm and .vnlour of the Fre:r;ich soldiers, but the boots . of Magdeburo- won the victories of ~ylau and Friedland. '11herefore; Captains, details, pleas.e . ; Attend to them all yourselves. The Section Commanders have been fl.a ttered a g~od deal in · these- columns, but it is ' you tha t w1ll have to keep them :up to th~ mark . · Napoleon_ perso~ally cashiered a sub-lieutenant for allowmg thrrty. t:wo of the forty-seven horses he was in charge of to o-et sore backs. So when one of your meJO. lets h~ rifle get rusty don't tell off a lieutenant * * * Napoleon did not: conquer Europ!! by flashes to detail a Section Commander to order a squad 'Of o-enius on the battlefield, nor lose it by lack of leader to 0o-ive him the butt end . Deal with him th:'m. The peace of Tilsit was not gained by the yourself. Also i:ead some more about Napoleon.
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rades hundred after hundred, almost !'qualling them' in numbers; and, behind aga~n, hundreds more who had missed enrolment durmg the week .At a public meeting held on Friday, 31st but came now to offer themselves . : March, to protest against the deportation of the Rev. Father O'Flanagan, C.C., Ringsend, pre, Irish Volunteer Organisers, _an unpremeditat!!d sided at the Th_ird Battalion meeting__; Mr. J. E. .appeal was made for recruits for the publm Lyons at the Frrst; Mr. Stafford ,P.L,.G., at the ·Brigade. Hundreds of young men fell m and Secqnd; and Lieutenant W :· T. C_o~grave, T .C'., .enrolled as Volunteers. The Brigade Com- at the Fourth, which heard, ~n addition to off!.cers ·mandant at once ordered recruiting meetings to of the Brigade who spoke at several meetings, 'be held · oh five evenings of -the ensuing week. Rev. Father Eugene Nevin, C.P., of Mount "The first on Monday, at Beresford Place, was Argus. . :for the ;hole Brigade. The notice ~vas sh~r.t, Perhaps the :qi.os_t encoun_1g;ing of all the good -the nio-ht bad· nevertheless a splendid meetmg facts of the week is ·the reJommg of such numwas h:ld and 'a hundred .recruits enrolled. On bers · of National Volunteers. They have met a "Tuesday two me~tings were h_eld in the area of hearty welcome and found all the old fellowship the First Battalion, at Blessmgton Street. and · waiting for them. ·Blackhall Street; on Wednesday, ~wo, at Ri~gs It may be worth while setting down a few of -end and Donnybrook, for ·the Third Battalion; the points put to t4e audiences:-on Thursday two, at James's Str~et and The Irish Volunteers have already done two Dolphin's Barn, for the Fourth Battalion; and _great services to Ireland. They have prevented -on Friday two, at Annesley Place and Drum- conscription and they have put an end to the ·condra, for the Second Battalion. Finally, on old system " of ruling Ireland by holding heJ.: in ;Sunday the Brigade made a ~hort parade subjection by the block-house system of R.I.C. · through the city with all the ;recruits that could barracks and the baton charges of the D .M.P. be reached by message late _m ~he week: The The Irish Volunteers are now far superior in meetino-s were all enthusiastic, passionate, numbers, training and !Lrms. to all the _police natiomtlist in the o-reat sense. Dublin is entirely forces·: the men of Dublm will never agam run ·with the Irish Vol";;.nteers. One single ·factionist from baton cnarges . The Crown Prosecutor, at .:asked a question and got his answer; one soldier a trial of Irish Volunteer Organisers, sai~ that --tried opposition and was thro"'.n out; one s~pa- they should be sent to England, " where they -ration-allowance virago served as an obJect- would be treated as they deserved." Stephen ·1esson. The citizens of Dublin are solid on tl;ie Collins in London, and Dan' McCarthy, in Liver-right side now : the young manhood of. Dubhn pool have been treated as they deserved for ·has come into the Irish Volunteers and will stay. being Irishmen, having both been murdered "by ·No one who attended the . meet~ngs could fail to mobs. If the Government move their forces ' see that the calumnies and the ·c atch-cries and ao-ainst the Irish· Volunteers, the men of Dublin, ·the cant have lost their power. No one who who are ' not t r ained and armed, will be running ·looked down a t the crowds-at the crowp, for to help the Volunteers with their bare fis t s; if. "instance in James's Street on Thursday--<:ould they come in time _they will ~e equipped and miss fee'lino- the emotion of the great occasion trained to serve their country hke men. Every ..that. vibrat~d that mighty coµcourse. No one Irishman has at some time wished that he had ·wlio saw the marches from meeting to meeting the opportunity given to the heroes of the -could fail to share the triumphal mood that rose Nation : every Irish Nationalis? knows that the . from the deep passion of t1!-e Capital. On Sup.- Irish Volunteers are the hereditary descendants .: day: t4e last. word of Dublm'.s reply to Publm of the men w;ho man)'.ied the Bearna Baogha:il ~n: , ,Castl!l ~as given. Tli~. men wl.io par;i.ded m C?l~ all the :i,ges. .~t is a privilege to liv~ an~ die m 1.eo-e Green on St. Pa:tnck's Day marched agam, the same service. .. -with ' foll arms and equipment, trained soldiers TH. MAcD . -of Ireland. Now with them marched new com. TH RO NGS OF R EC: RUI TS •TO. I R IS H V OL U N TEE RS IN D UBLIN .
sists . Yoll. can summarise thus :- Cover, to be effective, must (1) afford a good view of . the groUJl:d in front; (2) permit free use of _the nfle; (3) give concealment from enemy's view; and (4) give protection from enem:(~ firE'.. When possible a backgroun"d harmomsmg m co~o~ with the uniform should be chosen; when this is dornil , very little concealment is necessary. Isolated trees or rocks OJ.' very conspicuous places should be avoided, as the enemy has probably taken their range and may even have men told off specially to watch them. A man under cover should fire round and not over his cover. Speaking of cover reminds us of the speci:al training that shoul~ be given to men wh~ - show aptitude for scoutmg work. The duties of scouts should be clearly un~erstood. 'l'hey are the eyes and ears of the force, and as such should avoid fighting, and only in exceptional cases sh9ul.d . they even draw the fire of the enemy. Their business is to get information and get back with it. Information collected is no use unless it is delivered . • If, in advancing, _e nemy scouts are seen advancing, like Brer Rabbit "lay low and say nuffin' " ; let the enemy scout vass on-:·he'-ll pr@blibly fall into the hands ·of the roam body. But if, on the other hand, you find an enemy scout 1>orking his way back- he probably has information and so must be stopped. Do it as quietly as yo\l can, preferably with the bayonet. Scouts don' t take prisoners; that's not what they are for! Somebody has said that scouts r equire courage, cunning- and common,sense. They must see without being seen, hear without being heard, advance and retire unde~ cover, r ead traeks, and have very accurate obser. vahon. If you succeed in training half a dozeIJ. men in this particular branch, your whole Compaiiy wilr give good accouri t of its elf when the time comes.
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' ' Kossuth was one day suddenly overtaken with anxiety lest the enemy should concentrate his forces, which were considerably superior to ours, upon a point beyond the Leitha- if not unobserved, ·yet unhindered by us- and th~n at once somewhere break into the country, without our being able to stop him. As_sociated with this anxiety was also the apprehension 'of the possib~e extinction of the sympathies of the people for our cause, notwithstanding our occupation of the frontier. "Both fears caused Kossu.th urgently to re-
quest that I would not always stand so inactive on the frontiers, but rather open a regular war of partisans against· Austria; surprise the enemy with the rapidity of lightning, at one time here, and immediately afterwards in another place, then in a third, and so on- God knows where else- and tnereby prevent him froni concenti·ating his forces on a fixed point, ' or at least inauce him to think they were every moment necessary somewhere else, and even to attempt to realise it: thus he would fatigue and dispirit his troops and render them unfit for the execution of the offensive dreaded by Kossuth. . " In such a warfare Kossu£h saw at the same time a rich source of warlike heroic advent11res, which, duly diffused by the daily pres.s , would serve -to counteract the apprehended extinction . of the sympathies of the people for our struggle. These requirements of the President cau ed me to answer him verbatim as follows:" ' The order of the enemy to his army, which . you have communicat!!d to me, informs me th~t it is in fact no longer m my power to prevent his concentratioit; becaus~. ip has_ already'· been effected beyond the Leitha, and he can · advance across ,our·frontier ' almost in parade-jliarch. "Do not take · this remark for ' pusillanimity. If there be one who does not despair ·af Uie :cause of our counti'y, I am the man! : But ·1et-_ us not deceive ourselves in relation to the greatness of . the danger, 'of whi_ch_I"recognise t.ue factors moi·e in the feeble patriotism of our countrymen than in the numerical superiority of the en~my . . ~he comitates of Presburg; Neutra; Trencsm, Wiese~ budci' and Dedenburg are so many hothouses, if not ~f open antipathy against us, at.least of the most pitiable inaction . · . ·· '' ' The so-called 0o-uerilla warfare would .certainly find in me its most zealous· champion. I_n our present condition, however, such a war is impossible. Impossibl:e, because the ru~al pppulation does not stand by ·us, but shuts· its. doo~s against its starving countr;i:men. Impo~sib,le is such a war because our mfant1·y are almost bare-footed,' and our cavalry, on . their enfeebled hoTSes are scarcely able any longer to ' stagger after the infantry; and then the teams of the artillery! . Impossible is a war of that kind, because scarcely a battalion can march even the distance of one ~tat.i9:n without dragging after it a long train of waggons. Now ihe most
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