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An amusing side to it all is that CHARGES BY DE VALERA.
many Germans Terent the
"shamming dead" policy much
"Crawling" Order in Ireland.
more than the foreigners for whom it is meant, and that all of them. without distinction of political creeds. abuse their A communication issued by Government for spreading abroad Dail Eireann states that the the idea that, from the political, following letter has been sent to military, financial, and, above all, each member of the Coalition:- the industrial standpoint, Ger many is a thing of the past.
BETTER OFF THAN IN 1913. Mr. H. de Vere Stacpoole has a very striking letter in the London Morning Post Оп the relative positions of victors and vanquished after the war.
Lest on a plea of ignorance you should disclaim responsibility for what is being done hero in your name, speaking for the representatives of the people of Ireland I now bring directly to your notice the following facts:--
The troops in Ireland employed by your Government are not only waging at unjust war upon our people, but are carrying on that war in a manner contrary to all cules of civilised warfare,
I am going to make the bold statement (ho says) that Ger- many is to-day in a better position than in 1913, relatively speaking, and I am going to make the equally bold statement that she has accomplished wha! she intinctively set out to do.
In 1912 I remember writing in a-London daily paper that war with Germany was inevitable, not because of the piling up of armaments or the ambitions of the Kaiser, but because of the women and girls. fact that she was expanding, and 5. The flogging and maltreat- hooped in by Russia. Holland,ment of groups of civilians taken Belgiom. France, and the sea in the villages and countrysido. power of England.
In defiance of these rules your forces are guilty of :-
1. The torturing of prisoners. 2. The assassination of men! and boys in their homes, on the streets, and in prison.
3. The murdering of women,j of children, and of clergymen.
outraging of Irish
4. The
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6. The issuing and enforcing of "crawling" and such like humiliating and degrading orders.
I likened her to the contents of a barrel of fermenting liquor, and
7. The taking of men from said she would "blow the Belgian their work and forcing them to. bung out and foam into the sea." do military duty or work at mili- In 1914 the burst canie. It was tary labour, as slave gangs; the not a war so much as an explo-burning and looting of factories, sion. The thing was against creamneries, shops, and dwelling-| reason. In another ten years she houses: the destruction of would have been mistress of the farmsteads and farm produce and world through the energy of her the killing and maining of live traders, but she could not wait stock. another ten years.
Urged by energes beyond human; control, she set out instinctively!
NO ENCUMBRANCES.
**IRISH PEOPLE'S LAWFOL EFFORT."
to burst her bonds, and she burst i In order to help you to realise them. She not only blew Belgium the situation, it is necessary to out, as I predicted, but she has re-state this fact. The Irish so reduced every restrain people are a free people. They around her practically to hoops acknowledge no right to dominion and staves, smashed Russia to over them on the part of the pieces, and Austria, crippled British Executive, the British France, and brought England Legislature, or the British people. right to the doors of the Band-} They are engaged in a lawful ruptcy Court.
effort to demand a sacred right| which you are invading.
Abandoning justice and reason.. Like a bankrupt with a large the only ground on which it is store of gold in the form of possible for civilised people to energy, both martial and com- come to an understanding, you marcial, éhe has nothing to bother are seeking to crush that lawful| about in the vital hours of ro-effort by blind, barbaric violence.
No Excess Profit cuperation.
You have put your troops on. Duty burdens her industries, no "active service" in Ireland. excess of taxation worries her Although you have sought to people. She has no Navy and stify many of the vile deeds Army to drain her resources; she committed as acts of war, and has saved the secrets of her air-although you are armed with the ships and planes and her chemists most deadly modern machinery and airmen will constitute her of war and protected by every future striking power.
means known to their skill, you Having visited practically al
Already she is devising trunk now seek to purchase immunity the main manufactoring an
air routes through Europe, al from defensive action on our part Industrial centres of Gemany, only, owing to the commonseuse by making the possession of from Dresden to Frankfort, at her workers, she is under Irishmen may, if arrested, be from Nuremberg to Solingen with selling UR in the markets
the sole object of ascertaining the of real position of the different
After special inquiries extend. ing over some months and under uken by several skilled investi gators (British and foreign) the Daily Mail has begun a series of reports revealing the inmens progress of German industries ander cheap wages and lon;
ours.
the
world. Mesopotamia no
firearms an offence for which
have shot, and for which one has been shot, and by carrying Irish
They
124 think
German industries, the investiof, no Ireland, no devastated citizens AS hostages in your ators condense their impressions areas to make good, no mandates military expeditions against our
into a few words,
ELIS
WORDS TO THE WORKERS.
moving is attacked.
These things are done because
it is your will they should be done. If you willed otherwise, they would cease. It is you, and not your troops, who are primarily responsible.
receive from the League of people.
The orders to your troops are Private industry in Germany Nations, no Lansburys to stir thel s competent, intelligent, and workers to lunacy.
to shoot these hostages should the unit with which they are strong enough to survive labour
For two long years they have travelling be attacked. troubles, the depreciation of the watched British industry being]
Already, under the specious mark, and all its other difficulties kicked in the face by the brute pretence that they were trying to Production is on the whole foot of Labour every time it has escape, many Irish prisoners very satisfactory, and the em tried to get on his feet, and have been brutally murdered by ployers are optimistic. With a British credit poisoned by a your troops. Now represent- few exceptions business has been Government that ought long ago ative Irish citizens arc to be good and promises to recover to have been impeached. They
murdered similarly on the completely sooner than anybody have seen Dyer betrayed and the ground, patented or true, that could have possibly anticipated. India of Clive and Hastings the party with which they are
But Germany, has a Govern-banded to Montagu, Egypt desert- ment which. either for politicaled, and British air power neglect- reasons, as is generally believed ed Why should they not be in diplomatic circles, or happy? through sheer incompetence and leck of broad ideas,
the German
I say to the workers of England industrial
that a great awakening is prepar- world roundly declares, is
Although Sinn M.P.'s have depressing German
ing for you on the continent of) industry. Europe, and that for the 300 duties in the House of Commons, never attempted to fulfil their camouflaging facts, and dís- couraging export in a manner Armistice Day you are going to Mr. de Valera. has now made a strikes you have engaged in since the president of the organisation, that can be dubbed clumsy or clever according to the way in Pay a very long price.
first attempt at direct propaganda which you look at it, but which You have not led by lunaties work at Westminster, through is. in any case, extremely and traitors, given Germany a the medium of the post. When surprising.
long start and handicapped your-members arrived at the House selves with doubt. No man will they were Burprised to find THE GOVERNMENT'S "GAME."place a contract in England if he awaiting them the above
One of those who believe that can holp it, simply
because typewritten
communication, this policy of the German no man can tell if his contract headed:"Dail Eiroann General Government is nothing but a will bo fulfilled, and this Secretariat."
moment when foreign con- the Allida demand for roparation tracts are simply the bread and and to get a general revision of butter of your children and the the Versailles Treaty pointed out clothes on your backs, and when you
undersold. Cheapen that the "shamming dead" policy foreign contracts are passing into your products by cutting down is at present the only expedient the hands of Germany.
wages, resist the strike mania, one for Germany to adopt On That is had enough. On the get rid of your Government and this both Social Democrats and other hand, take your Govern- get a Government, of business Junkers are agreed.
For two years they have, men, and pray to God to forgive
Hand, one It is essential, they argue, to on the
strangled you,
million Englishmen fell give the Allies the impression British commerce with lunatic that Germany cannot possibly taxes for lunatic schemos, and, fighting German Terrorism; you pay, and any loss suffered by on the otter hand, assisted Ger- have played, and are playing, German industry through the many to grow by not insisting with Russian Terrorism, which thing under a present policy will, in their the Germany should pay her is the same
When the hour opinion, be largely made good by shot towards reparation and by differont name. the modification in Germany'a dabbling with Bolshevism, which strikes you will find this out, and that the Cod you have betrayed favour of the Treaty conditions is Germany's chief weapon. which, it is claimed, the Allies! What are you to do? Produce has permitted you to place your- will be bound sooner or later to more? That old cry is dead:selves under the heel of Ger concede.
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