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BEPRISALS IN IRELAND. LORD. MORLEY'S REPROOF.
COERCION AND CIVIL WAR,
Lord Morley recently wrote, to the
NATIONALITY PROBLEMS MR. BALFOUR AND THE PEACE TREATIES.
It
fong-rier. There seem to be three play before.. statesmen was to see that the on memorials at the depots or in neigh large circle formed round the Kaisar, whọ -
First, everybody agrees, from the bewil dered Cabinet down to the least unchristian of Orangemen that Home Rule of some sort or other is now inevitable.........
Second, nobody denies hat no surt of Home Rule can work unless there is good feeling and good will to make it work, between the people of Ireland and the people of Great Britain, and their respective Governments.
Thirl, it is no secret that the Ministerial proceedings of today are raising new abstacles and aggravating the old ones to this good feeling. Observant travellers; asure you that Caionist lawyers, shop. keepers, and squireens are turning, and with extraordinary force, to Slan Fein. One of the southern counties a year ago was half Sina Fein. To-day the whole county is Sinn Fein, and murder has taken the place of cattle driving. Even steady law and order counties now use language and express sentiment not far removed from hata against England, that beats the worst yornagilar of Clare mul Cork.
THE PRINCIPLE-
HIGHLANDERS.
admits the mischief, both to discipline and plex interests of a very highly complex in a lidge, and on a site to be elected tinent wond begin the real war which
The enormity to which the policy of re- prisals has gone is no longer to be con- cealed. The incidents set forth last week in the letter in your columns of as English writer of high standard and repate, from one of the most delightful and attaching spot, in Ireland, lights up with temper and measure the odious working of the system Tha Chief Secretary after long silence.
to the victing of reprisals, by the assurance that severer-disciplinary measures will be taken against anybody proved quilty of them. This is some relief after reading the list of cases reported in the Irish Press since Parliament use in the latter days of Angust. The position that The Times has consistently taken as to this department of Irish policy (as to most departments be side), cannot be wortis arguing in face of the address of the Inspector General of the R.T.C., reminding his force that destruction of buildings and constitution cannot but impoverish the country and increase want and disorder. He has hoped that the
proof required before primand got be pitched to inexorably high," institution, recruiting, formation, and re- gulation-for the new extra Police force will, med explanation when Parliament meets,
"DURT OF DEMOCRACY.
BATTLE MEMORIALS,
THE EX-KAISER.
REGIMENTAL PROJECTS AT HOME ERZBERGER'S STORY OF THE WAR
AND ABROAD.
"Hor, Erzberger's reminiscences, which Mr. Balfour, presiding at the Inter- A return of the Battle Exploit Memorialshare appeared, admittedly do not tell the Times:-A wol-equipped American publicise national Congress of Philosophy at Oxford Committee, summarised in The Times of full story of bis war and peace experiences, not long since approved an English politi-rently summed up an interesting disous August 9th, showed that 140 claims for the remarks the special correspondent of the sion on the Problem of Nationality." erection of battlefield memorials had been | Daily Telegraph, but they throw light oa cian and man of letters for " that powerful sanity, that patient tolerance of durable tiem, he said, had been directed registered in nine different countries. It many points, and among others on the was pointed out that in some cases barta mentality of the Kaiser The meeting of facs which is a clue to a temper of sound against the undue prominence which, it was tons, brigades, and divisions had decirted the monarch with the party leaders on Ju
20th, 1017, after the passing of the Reich- structural politics. There have not been alleged, had been given in the Peace to combine in a general memorial.
Inquiry adressed to the various registog peace resolution and the resignation Treaties to the idea of nationality in re mental headquarters leads to the conciu-of Dr. von Bothmann-Hollweg is described. many moments when our structural politics constituting the map of Europe. Hesion that the memorials undertaken for as follows:- were in sharper need of powerful sanity agreed that it was posible to talk about the perpetuation on the apos of the deeds After the presentations the Kaiser tail Short views have been the curse of Eng the principle of nationality in language comparatively few. In many instances the room, and. first of all, to the present of particular. Tegiments or battalion, sre to individual deputies in the adjoining land's dealings with Ireland, and today we of absurd exaggeration, as if it were water is still under consideration. One u National President, Ebert. At first genesi seem to be approaching high water in the bernal and immulable principle which had memorial fund has the question in hand was only after some time had named that
these is the Guards, the committee of whose non-political matters, wore discussed. master absurdities of the frish voyages always governed the constitution of human In other instances attention is concentrated Let us, for once, look ahead," and try a
society, and as if the only problem that in Therense.
bouring churches. Local nemorials, whe then trenched upon current polities. To the principle of nationality was carried out in ther small or extensive, often seem a bar. general astonishment the Kaiser, among the case of every civilised and uncivilised rier against those of the battlefield; and other things, asid it was very good that the community. That was doing an injustice it is perbans natural that a regiment should Reichstag wished a peace of comproming to the statesmen who had to deal with the tremendous problems that came before, first at securing its fame at home.ugslaich). Now, presisely, this very engne word was excluded from the Reichstag re- them. The world was complaining of the The Seaforth Highlanders Association solution, though it had been strongly de length of time is had taken to arrange hopes to raise £50,000 (of which £6,000 sanded by the Chief Command. The word one of the methods which, in the gradual of all ranks who served in the regiment, splendid, and had been invented by "him these treaties. Nationality, he took it, was in hand) to commemorate the 50,000 men compromise," said the Kaiser was evolution of civilisation, humanity bad the 8,000 killed, and the large number of here he pointed with his cigarette to the found for doing that which was absolutely wounded The appeal and the principles Vice-Chancellor, Helfferich, who was in necessary, that being to net in some corunderlying it illustrate what has to be more attendance Compromise would amount to" parate empacity"
or less generally remembered in the disposal this, that, we should take money, raw mate of funds. The weight of opinion here favrials, cotton, minerals, and oils out of the The principle of nationality in its prosent ours assistance to those who have suffered pockets of our enemies, and put them into full sense and to its present extent was of in the war and their dependents rather. our OWT pockets. "Compromise," ha rather late growth. It was only relatively than the erection of monuments. In the added, was quite a magnificent ford. To recently that it had reached its present regimental district, which comprises on their horror, the members of the majority development. One of the most interesting fourth of the area of Scotland and includes historical states he could imagine was that so town of auch over 10,000 inhabitants, partice not only saw that the Kaiser wa of contemplating the development out of parish monuments or mural tablets have not informed as to their wishes, but felt feudal society of a nationality wociety been strongly supported, and there is little themselves to be ridiculed by these remarks, He agreed that they could not apply the enthusiasm for anything overseas make the same direction. England and America The Kaiser's further observations were in principle of nationality as if it was to be seen by the country people. End made an alliance to settle with Japan mathematical principle to be explained objects placed, first in the appeal are the re- to be applied throughout the whole realm fore a comprehensive scheme of grants in after the war. He knew positively that of nature; not to be changed as civilisation and to supplement existing war fund, for Russia had allied herself with Japan for changed; but to remain the eternal measure the next 40 years, and subscription to a counterstroke. Further, he declared, and method by which human society was the Scottish National Memorial at Edin though the present war would not end with constituted. What they could say of na bargh Castle. The third object is the pro- the defeat of England, it would result in ticnality was this: That it did level itself vision of regimental memorials, in the form great understanding with France, and to modern developments. 16 lent itself of an Iona cross. at the Point du Jour, then under his leadership, the entire Con- more than any other system to all the com
Viny
the regimental district.
would be a war against England, and which modern community. He would go further
On behalf of the Gordon Highlanders he described as a second Punic war. He thought it was of all forms of produc meeting has been held at Aberdeen, and Ing human co-operation the one that lent bas decided on the erection of a memorial
The amazement among the deputies rose, itself best to democratic development. He club in the town as n rust-home for Turning to the battle in the Galicia, which was inclined to believe that full democratic commissioned officers and men at a cost of had taken place a few days earlier, the constitution was by far the best for modern £40,000. The Camerons memorial will also Kaiser said that the Guard, ander his so homogeneous society, and that the best way take the form of endowment of some institu of getting that was through the principle, bion, and of contribution to the Scottish Fritz, had knocked out of the Rumiang as far as they could develop it, of a National Memorial. As a large sum is the democratic dust from the West." and tionality. The basis of, that principle lay required for these purposes the question he added, "Where the Guard appears there of course, with the people who had a con of a battlefied memorial resolves itself into no democracy Addressing himself to sciousness of nationality, in whom it was
one of money. The Royal Scots, again, me, he spoke of the successes of the U-boat developed, and who could easily and withre so intimately connected with all fronts war, as to which I had doubts, saying that out, internal friction work together as a decided to centralise and
that, after much discussion, it has been of the East Coast of England there was 30 community. That was the object of it, and e
make
the area covered with wrocks of shipa, tha in to far as it had produced they result it regimental memorial in Edinburgh, the England would be done for is two or thre was admirable
hearp of the regimental district, and not months, and that 4,000,000 tons of whent But there was another side to it, which to contemplate the erection of a battlefields were lying ready in Australia, but could people were bound to remember They memorial. With regard to the hot be fetched. Finally, the Kaiser said, “My not make the frontiers of States to Cameronians (Scottish Rifles) a scheme is officers report to me that they now neyer represent precisely what they wished being considered for a monument on the see a single enemy ship on the high seas, It is true that an eminent writer of our There were, for example, as those who had battlefield of Nedve Chapelle, where the I replied that in this case it was all the own has assured the world that the trouble to deal with these treaties knew, what night 2nd Battalion was almost annihilated in more remarkable that Admiralty staff. is in the dissensions within Ireland itself, be described as islands of alien popula March, 1915
should still announce the sinking of 000,000 not in any want of good will on England's tion, like plums in a pudding. in the very part. But the doctrine of the lightlying middle of another population. It was
The Loyal North Lancashire Regiment tons and more shipping every month. With ultras in Ireland is practised in boldly evident they could not be given a separate has raised & fund for a memorial in granite his back upon me Passing to the expansion
A gesture of displeasure, the Kiser turn assumed independence of English opinion, national existence, it was not of the ques or other stone on the banks of the Aisne They are often heard to speak sa it the tion. They were sertions of a population near Vendresse. Memorials of the South of canalisation, the Kaiser propounded a insurrection of 1920 wotld be sintaped down who, either for a geographical reason, or Lancashire Regiment will be embodied in fantastical plan of divertitig the Danube like the ferocities of the rebellion of 1733. for any other, fount themselves members the divisional memorials; the 5th (T) Battar Cernavoda along Trajan's Wall to the Such people do not understand the changes of a nation which they chose to regard lion in that of the 55th Division; the oth Black Sen. Then the International Danishe of their era; they trust in vain to the for linguistic or racial or religious, or any (8) Battalion in the 13th Division obelisk Commission at Brain would be left high and acquiescence of Great Britain in a White other reason, as being alien to themselves, on the Diala river close to Table Moun- dey Terror in unfortunate Ireland. Mary even but it was their duty to remember that siz; the 7th (5) Battalion in three tonu. Erzberger adds that the interview was the among the responsible have openly stated, their natural feeling of nationality must ments being erected by the 19th Division deepest spade cut at the roots of the old and some are secretly dreaming, that the be subordinated to the greater whole. That at La Boiselle, Wytschsets, and Montaigne regime," and that veteran deputies, who true way out lies in the withdrawal of was a duty which people forgot, and it was de Bligny; the 8th (6) Battalion in the had hitherto refused to consider Parlis- parliamentary forms and the direct ordering not to the credit of any politician or states monorial to the officers and other ranks mentary government, declared openly that of Irish government as a stiff Crows man or legal man that he worked on this
of the 66th Infantry Brigade who fell in evening that the existing system must a Colony, without the mark that isguises the mass of nationality to produce division, who attack on the "P
neur Germany to disaster." truth Unce more let us seek a longview The proper use of the feeling of nationality
Doiran, Macedonia, on
18th, When Lored Beaconsfield quitted Downing street in 1889 he had a farewell interview to produce union
The officers of the stb Dragoon Guards with a capable jourvalist
enger to talk ol
have decided not to erect a special memorial foreign affairs and all their embarrase.
on any battlefield in France or Belgium, ments. The departing Prime Minister would must have reached the applicable and too but wish to include the name of the not go beyond one single word “ Ireland," relevant truth of the wisest and the greatest regiment on monuments which may be built Then Forster, to coward, tried his hand at of his countrymen that “to criminate and at Messises, Ypres, the Aisne, Cambrai, coercion, but before, many weeks the Queen to recriminate was never yet the road to Loms, the Bomme, and Amiens. The South learned that the country was undoubtedly reconciliation in any differences among Staffordshire Regiment is helping in the refractory to coercion Forster withdraw men, Coercion, let tis remeisber, is a very erection of the monuments of the divisions The atrocity at the Phonix Park gave new different thing as applied to civil law and in which its battalions served, and does not and terrible point for yet stronger coercion. civil policy and where it is the name for for the present propose regimental motu After three or four year Spence was recalled military conflicts that are becoming by slements, home on the fall of the Cebitet on other and expansion in their essence civil wat. A store column bearing the regimental grounds. A special banquet was organized Coercion is a rather a vague, conventional, badge with an inscription and the names of to pay him grateful recognition, but it was and mechanical word for an army of occu ofbeers and other ranks who fell in the reception af spirit messages by strictly noted that the two Radical Leaders, with patios. Those of us who look back upon the assault on Fricourt, July 1st, 1916, is mechanical means. sinister significance, absented themselves. strange new life of Irish things for the being erected close to the village on behalf He has made a statement regarding his Some eminent Ministers in the new Govern last generation cannot but note that the of the 7th (8) Battalion of the Yorkshire Tics on the subject, which is published ment scandalized their followers by conces movement of British opinion has brought us Regiment. The York and Lancaster Regi- in the current number of the American aions to Trish misterodinust The ebb of tos momentous turament, will commemorate its 3,144 fallen by for my part, I am indized to believe
Magazine The inventor, says coercion was as remarkable is its flow. TheIt is the worst fatulty to forgot smong & memorial in Sheffield with replicas new Conservative Viceroy surprised Dublin obvious and central truths that the long spelt modified form in the other towns with which that our own personality hereafter will Castle, so far we Dublin Castle is susceptible of coercion that Ministers seem to con the regiment is identified by a tables in be able to affect matter. It this rosening of surprise, by undisguied leanings in the template means a whole generation bara and York Minister in the chapel, where all the by correct, then, if we esa evolve an instrt Parcellite direction. Lord Salisbury could brought up in association bitterly hostile regimental colours are deposited and by ment so delicate as to be affected, or more not stand it, and at Mr. Gladstone's wish it to England. In Craswell's ever-memorable a memorial on the site allotted on the Ypres, or manipulated, by our personlity as It fell to me to come next for a short space words The mind is the man What or Menin Road To the lace handsome sus curvives in the next life, such an instru in the procession of Irish governors of " minds in the men are prepared for have already been received mens when made available, ought to record; had a prompt and hasty, dose from the Irishmen by the shortsighted ultras who to-
An old officer of the 1st Battalion Mon- something region where they usually claim to be the day are understood to talk of completing mouth Regiment, whose son was lalled on "I have been at work some time build most intelligent persons in all Ireland. The Oliver's half-done work The Viceroy may May 8th, 1916, in the second Battle of ing an appamlus to see if it is possible story spread like wildfire that the new Irish easily muster military force enough to make Ypres, has negotiated the purchase of the for personalities who have left this earth Becretary had specially imported extra cure of pretty greedy conquest, though it land on which the intiation fought on that to communicate with us. If this is ever police, with express orders: 10 boot down is to be hoped that no portion of the foros day with the 28th Division, and it is pro accomplished it will not be by any occult, Protestants, and was openly credited by will be taken from the brave Irish soldiers posed to put up there a monument to the mystifying, mysterious, or weird mean persons of sound repute with the crazy who fought under his command in France 21 officers and 437 men who fell,
The Gloucestershire Regiment is erecting such as is employed-by-so-called mediums, alliteration of “ Morley's murderers." In Well may your able Dublin, correspondent
but by scientific methods.If what we call vain they were reminded this the Satanic forewarn us that, the policy of reprisals & plain stone obelisk 25ft. high on the Ypres personal exists after death and that Irish Secretory must have had as active would prove worse and darker in all its Menin Road near Hoore, opposite to what personality, te anting to communicate confederates in his Bartholomew, plot the prolonged ulterior results than the tire is now the tramway halt, Cimitière des with us who are will to the Boate Lord Lieutenant, the Under Secretary, the malady itself. This is the most cogent of Tanks. The obelisk will boar the regi earth, there are or three kinds of apparatus Inspector-General, most of the officers in all the, drawbacks. We may sympathize or mental badge, names of the principal
couth
1918,
ENGLISH REGIMENTAL PLANE.
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them Protesinala of declared and undeniable heart of Nationalist Ireland is tenaciousment were cogagod, and the inscription, orthodoxy. Then coercion had its golden However, we may differ as to the utility: In memory of all maks of the Gloucester chance in Mr. Balfour, who was Irisa, Bec of coercion to law and order, there is on shire Regiment who fought and fell in the retary for several years, and carried, well-the other hand no question of its bearing campaigns of 1914 to 1915. The history latter, Delay is due simply to the difficulty earned laurels. They colowly, Faded, a Gen. on our national credit and character-in of this scheme is rather curious. Proposals experienced by the Belgian Government is eral Election came after he had been Prime India, for instance, where in these feverish for the memorini were made in June, 1010 deciding the ownership of the proposed wite Minister, for a couple of years, and he was days the standing common impression of our and the approval of the War Office ne in Flanders. Meanwhile, aging to the dethroned at that General Election, while devotion in the gasereign principle of justice received in October, Bubscriptions to the rising cost of Belgian Jabour and materials. the insurrectionary Forces, smouldering or, and equal law is a living asset of British amount of £1,650 have been collected from the contract price has sepricated by ablara, were where they had always been, power. Bay what we will, it is no better the regiment and those connected with it, per contince the
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