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THERE ARE IRELANDS
BY ROBERT LYND
is possible to understand the present situation in it Ireland only if we see against a background of his. And the story tory.
Roes back a long time.
Let us begin nearly a thou- sand years ago, when, for the last time so far, Ireland was The both united and free. Dancs
the
in were
enemy those days, and King Brian of the Tributes had beaten them off for ever at the battle of Clontarf. A minor Golden Age followed during which the national civilisation flourished.
In the following century an Irish Quisling brought a new invader Into Ireland--the Anglo-Normans. Many people think that religion is at the root of every trouble in Ire
it land, but
Catholic England that first conquered Catholic Ireland.
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In century after century, it the object of the con- querors to destroy Irish rivili- sation langunge, und culture. In spite of this many of the descendants of the English settlers became "more Irish than the Irish'
and helped 10 themselves, maintain the national tradi- tion.
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M སྐ DURING the
reign uf Queen Elizabeth, when revoll after revolt took place, the conquerors were bent on polley, not only of conquest, but of extermination. Froude Eliza- of one of the says bethan leaders that he was not a bad man, but that "he as dealing regarded himself
beasts with savage rather than with human beings, and when he traced them to their dens he strangled their cubs out their entire and rooted broods."
better MAB Cromwell, a still, repeated the horror of devastation, and, when King William III. defeated James II. and his Irish followers at the Battle of the Boyne and at Limerick, it seemed as if the flame of Irish. freedom had gone out for ever. The Pope, it is interesting to re- call, was on King William's side, and had joybells rung in Rome in celebration of the Orange victory at the Boync. In the eighteenth century new patriotic movement grow up among the Irish Pro- testants, with Dean Swift as one of the leading figures. Driven out by oppression and misrule, many of these Pro- testants emigrated to the American Colonies, and,"ac- cording to Lord Mountjoy. speaking of the American
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War
of Independence, "America was lost by Irish emigrants."
About this time, the Pres- byterian settlers in the North flocked into the ranks of the Volunteers, and, with their help, Ireland gained a Parlia ment of its own in 1782. The Parliament was corrupt, how- ever, and the revolutionary spirits of the time demanded real only formal but not
In the rebellion that liberty. followed North as well Smith took part.
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There came The Union. achieved by the bribery of corrupt men and opposed by what Lecky calls the un- briged intellect of Ireland."
the Pledges made at
time were not kept, and wealth was drained from the coun- try, since the landlord clas migrated from Dublin 10 Laulun.
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The famine of the forties fell
51 poverty-stricken country, destroying about million people; and the Irish race dwindled slowly to about half its former size.
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THERE is no use remem» bering these things with bit- termen. All powerful Statem behaved badly during those black centuries. But it TA necessary to understand such things in order to realise how
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dimcult it in to uproot the widespread Irish-ns I think, mistaken auspicion of Eng- Jand.
Even during the Inst war, when Ireland sent 500,000 soldiers into the British Army, there were anti-Irish influences
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thia country determined to defeat, not only Germany, but Ire
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As for the Protestants of Ulster, many of them equally suspicious of Catholic fellow countrymen. After the rebellion of 1798. Catholic about propaganda atrocities performed its pur- jose. And great Ulster leader, the Rev. Henry Cooke, re-lit the sectarian fires of the seventeenth century with re- Multa that have lasted.
At the beginning of the last war many people hopes that the two sections of Irishmen would be brought together by their common interest in pre- venting a German conquest of Ireland.
There were leaders
on both sides, however, who could not forget their here- ditary suspicions even in face of that deadly threat to their common country.
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HENCE, when the Anglo- Irish Treaty came, the Six Counties demanded the parti- tion of Ireland as a price. If it had not been for this, we should probably have seen Mr. de Valern, not holding on to neutrality to-day, but play-
a similar part to that ing
FRENCH
By JOHN PUDNEY
CLOSE your eyes as we sit with our glasses
ing.
round a table in the cool of the urban even- "Bon sante, monsieur," they have said, and it is just another evening in that long suc- cession of French summers.
The gunsmith of the town has thumped the table to point the statement that he last. sold 85,000 cartridges year, the accountant in the beret is disinclined to believe him, the large draper drinks deep and shrugs often.
The pungency of an unti- dily-rolled cigarette sharpens the Gallic atmosphere.
"Two 'arves o' mild" de- manda the spell-breaking voice. Open your eyes on the court-yard of the narrow London
ladies pub-stout with stout at the tables, bus conductors on the benches, a thin solemn Cockney on my right who desires "mild."
Scattered By War
But the three gentlemen 'from the same town sit there in their French uniforms, talkative, courteous, gravely bewildered in the midst of the familiar clamour of the Cock- ney week-end scene.
The knew each other at home, yes. Then the war scattered them in different regiments.
They now eagerly discuss their families, sitting among
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the Cockney families in the the couri-yard of pub; and they celebrate this in the unexpected reunion suburbs in English beer.
"It blows you out," says the large draper of our beer.
"One must treat it with re- spect," adds the gunsmith.
On the whole they approve. English beer they admit is an acquired taste, but they are gutisfied that they have ac- quired it.
55. A Week You may have seen some of these lonely servicemen from France, defeated
strolling London through
streets. They do not look very gay, for few of them speak English, few of them have news of their families, few of them many coppers to spare (those I talked to are getting 69. a week pay).
With one accord all the French soldiers and sailors I met this week-end testified to the warmth and friendliness of the ordinary man in the street, though the language difficulty is often most acute where the spirit of Entente Cordlate is at its highest.
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in South played in 1914 Africa by General Botha and General Smuts.
Personally, I think it is an error to raise the question of
just now. partition
If the Nazis won-ns they will not - much worse inte would befall Eire than separation from the Six Counties. Simi- Inrly, If the Nazis won, much worse fate would befall the Six Counties than union with the rest of Ireland.
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In the circumstances, is it wise for Mr. de Valera or Lord Craigavon to refuse to meet the other and to co- operate in defending Ireland against possible invasion ex- cept on his own conditions?
It seems to me that this is
a time when the South should adopt, for all-Ireland pur- Northern slogan, poses, the "No Surrender!" and when the North should reply by adopting the old Irish slogan, "God Save Ireland1"
SOLDIERS
THE
MEET COCKNEYS
Nobody could suggest that the circumstances of their present trip here are happy. But both among those who wish to go back to their fami- ties and among those wishing to fight along with us, these dark days seem to have esta- blished a solidarity with this country, more particularly with the working-class people of this country whom they are now seeing for the first time.
"I have seen your soldiers und your sailors at Dunkirk,' 'says a sailor from the South. "I have now also seen the or- dinary people. You have something here, mon ami!"
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they have discovered body
French. who speaks That shop 18 doing a great traffic in their meagre pence.
As for July 14: that was still a red letter day for some of them.
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Firing Practice For Week
Warning Issued
To Shipping
Firing Practice, as under, is notified for to-day, September 2:
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Smart A.R.P. Exercises
nor, Was
Governor Watches
on
His Excellency the Acting Gover- Lieut. General E. F. Norton, interested spectator at a serica of A.R.P. sector exercises held In the Shaukiwan division carly yesterday morning.
The Governor was accompanied by the Director of A.R.P. Wing
Light Gun Firing Practice between the hours of 6 p.m. and 12 midnight Comdr. A. H. S. Sicele-Perkins, and Firing Arcos "D" and "E" will be after inspecting a squad of Wardens -who were complete with steel helmets, uniforma and gas-masks Firing Practice, as under, is notified proceeded to the locations where the
nflected.
for September 3:
Gun
ag will be
exercices took place.
(e) Light
Firing Practice
These consisted of dve incidents, between the hours of 9 am, and and the most realistic one was one p.m. Firing Area
when a live incendiary bomb was affected.
supposed to have fallen in an open (b) Anti-Aircraft Firing Practice space behind 64 Salwanho Street, between the hours of 9 a.m. and 4 causing a large matahed to catch
of the fire. p.m. in the Western Island.
Arca
An Incendiary bomb with mag- Firing Practice, as under, is notlled nestum compound inside, was not on. for September 4;
fire, and it was smothered with sand (a) Anti-Aircraft Firing Practice by Wardens who went to fetch the
and 4 between the hours of 9 a.m.
equipment for dealing with in- of the cendiary bombs from 64 Salwankio p.m. in the Western Arca Island.
Street.
(b) Light Gun Firing Practice be-
A large pile of wooden boards was tween the hours of 0 p.m. and 12 then set on fire, and D call put midnight. Fleing Areas "D" and through for the Fire Brigade. Circus (not
The three citizens of the by careful living one town managed to
5s. each. They took it to the West End and sat down in a restaurant at Piccadilly cheap, alas) and celebrated, like
Frenchmen. tili good their week's money was gone.
And English food?
When it is plain they like it, but they miss the long loaves of bread and the good coffee: *saye,
"La France n'est pas morte," somebody Exiles in the bar nod their affirmation and drink.
In the pin-table saloon are uniformed Africans wearing car-rings, Alpinists in thick woollen stockinge, small knowing Parisians. Anyone with a penny to spare is magnet to them; twenty or so of them surround the player to watch the flashing lights. Pierre, a sailor from Brest, tells me that he has spent free evening here. every watching the sport.
They Miss The Coffee
wide
of parade Along the shops there is one cafe where
Last-War French
Little pocket dictionaries are handed about in the pin- table saloon, the pub and the bright week-end shops. A few words of English are. tried; they sometimes get a
of
last-war few words soldiers' French in reply.
Something in a pub which cemented the undying soli- durity between the working men of two countries was the whiskered bloke in the cloth cap who winked at his Mrs. and huskily holleredout "Vive La France. Every- one drank the toast.
"E" will be affected.
The
Firing Practice, as under, is not-time taken before the hoses could be played on the Are was 12 minutes. ed for September 5:
(a) Light Gun Firing Practice be- tween the hours of 8 am and 4p.m. Firing Areas "A" and "B". will be affected. Alternative date Septem- ber 8.
were
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Other exercises dealt with high explosive and gas bombs falling on buildings, and Wardens quired to make the necessary, reports and carry out the usual precautions. (b) Anti-Aircraft firing Practice Mr. A. E. Gerondal, the Deputy between the hours of 9 a.m, and Chief Air Raid Warden; acted as of the umpire, with Mr. B. H. Puckle, In the Western Area p.m.
Deputy Director of A.B.P., as umpire Island.
at the Report Centre at the China carried out between the hours of Can Company.
Light Gun Firing Practice will be
p.m. and 12 midnight on September
Before Icaving, His Excellenty
6. Firing Arcas "D" and "" will be inspected a squad of Quarry Bay air
affected.
Wardens under Divisional
Firing Practice with Blank Gun raid Ammunition will be carried out in Warden C..P, Seath at the Talkoo the Sai Wan Tytom Gap Area ba-playground.
Others present at the exercises tween the hours of 8 am, and 12 noon
were Major C. M. Manners, Chief Air on September 6.
Hald Warden, Kowloon;, and Major A. V. Petrie.
LICENSING BOARD
FLOWER DAY COLLECTIONS
A meeting of the Licensing Board will be held in the Council Chamber on Tuesday, November 5, 1940, nt
The Flower Day collections in ald 4 p.m., for the purpose of considering of the Tung Wah Hospitals realised applications for publicans Licences a total of $4,210.54 on Saturday. holel keepers adjunct licences, and This sum is for short of the total of restaurant adjunct licences for the 38,590,02 collected by the Hospital Year 1040-1941 under the Dutlable during their Flower Day last year, Commodilles Ordinance, 1931, but further donations are expected.