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THE IRISH EXECUTIONS.

THE GERMAN IN ASTA.

Canon Limerick in Loader:

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Langbridge, writes from

Daily News

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INDIA'S RESISTANCE TO INTRIGUE

We were leaving the Asylum together whither diverse duties had called us-i and the atout contractor. Tis outside you should step," he said "to find the lunatics. We fancied we had the mad dogs exterminated, but, faith. one' escaped, and be bit Ireland."

"You mean Sinn Fein?" I said.

Ay," he answered, " Fein, and I mean them that's crying out for their blood. I'm sick and sorry for their shooting; twill make the most of Ireland Sinn Fein. I don't mind the leaders--they know what they were up against. They'd nek nothing better than what they got. They were out to die for Ireland. But they had a right to step with the first four."

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UNWRITTEN HISTORY OF THE WALL",

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAI JUNE 26, 1916.

Lord Hardinge, in the course of a con- versation with the London correspondent of the New York Times, has given the following account of Indian affairs since the outbreak of the war:-

EAST COAST NAVAL RAID. GENERAL JOFFRE'S POLICY.

· CHARACTERISTIC GERMAN

ACCOUNT.

The Coluyne Gazette published on Sur day, remarks a London daily of May under the heading "The German Fleet before Lowestoft, what seems to be the first really ambitious production of the German Admiralty Press Burean sinne the end of the Tirpitz regime.

A London message, dated May 28th, says:

One sentence in the Intest French serai- official communiqué on the subject of the Battle of Verdun has provoked a great deal of speculation. This is to the effect that it is possible that the present deci site period was opened not by the enemy's initiative but by the will of our higher comand. The statement is guarded, but the natural inference is that a general

by General Joffre. In other words, if

The article begins as follows: ** The main cause of England's miners For months during the early period. 1 mean Sinn of the war India was practically denuded us mistakes and failures this var bas battle at Verdun was deliberately sought:]

of British troops. The Indian Empire been that in very many cases she was gave to the British Empire, in the compelled to pursue a policy of prestige. the statement means anything at all, it means good deal. If General Joffre, critical early stages of the war, when he has wasted thousands of men and

upon enterprises at a moment when the Austriam had England's resources in artillery were, as millions of money is well known, entirely inadequate to the which had no other purpose than to pre engaged large forces in the Trentino, needs of the situation, the whole of its vent the loss of any part of her reputa deliberately sought a decisive conflict at artillery of the most modern and up toon as the ruler of the world--within a Verdun, ene need not expect that any date pattern, with the exception of a few liniited area. This is the common disfront will retain quiescent any longer than may be ucessary to induce the Ger- batteries which were kept on the North advantage of all World-Empires. All of West Frontier for protection against composition, but in the case of England.

the have something artificial in their mans to entrain troops for Verdun,

batteries were reduced from six to four artificial substructure and a very small in particular the Empire rests upon an

basis.

We shook hands and parted. I saw an old friend, & grey-haired man of com merce, coming my way, and I waited for him to overtake me.

Coone.

"Bad business," he said, folding a nowspaper. More executions, More houvy sentences. More arrests. They are sowing martyrs' blood, and Ireland's rank soil for lat Every drop will spring up a hate, maybe a revenge, to Bed and weed again for generations to

"Ah, yes. I'm sorry," I said "We were getting on, so well."

"Ay," he answered, we were that, Irish is Irish and English is Engliah ? but we were growing to like one another. The old grievances were gone, the old quarrels were dying out. There were ugly things in the past. But what good to shake your fist in a man's face and shout. Your grandfather was a rogue'? We'd got to be good neighbours; we were getting to be

attack from without. And even these

guns.

From these facts it is apparent that the Indian Government had full confid- in the loyalty of the Indian Princes, Chiefs, and peoples.

ence

A PIẤT THAT WALLED.

There is ample evidence that German assistance, financial and other, has been given to agitators. One plot was directly instigated by Germany through various agents, who were supplied with con- siderable funds. This was an ambitious scheme nothing less than to create a general revolt, which was tied to break out on Christmas Day, 1915. However, the Government was furnished with full information of the projected rising, and was able to forestall it and render all preparations abortive. The centre of this plot was in Bengal, where there has amount of always been a certain anarchist activity.

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The Daily News Paris correspondent, apparently unmoved by the hint in the French Note, avers that General Joffro adheres unswervingly to the policy of killing the maximum of Germans at the minimum of cost. He quotes an officer wounded at Douaumont to the effect that he sat three regiments melt away in half A hour under a pitiless hail from the 758. Another officer from the Morthomme region says the German command must have been smitten with homicidal mania

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10 their naval policy, on the other hand, the English during this war have displayed wisdom by avoiding any pres tige policy. They know what is at stake very real things. The conductors of the Admiralty have calmly left the poli- ticians in their meetings to shriek about biting them out of their holes. There smoking out the German Navy ur

are many such phrases. They are not

The Times Paris correspondent com thinking of anything of the kind. If the English Fleet, after sweeping our

siders that the most important German success on Wednesday was in the neigh NETH. cruisere off the sea or at any many of them as it has yet wen-remains bourhood of Morthomme and Hill 304. lying in the great bay in the OrkneyThe success was not a complete as the Isles, it knows what it is doing. From enemy doubtless intended, but it enabled there to the southern point of Norway him at least to begin a movement against onsidered blockade line. the second line of Verdan defences. The it draws a From there it can always push out to occupation of Cumieres is strategically the south when it thinks good and there unimportant, hut 60,000 men on a two- seems to be a promise of success. Itsmile front endeavoured to force a way to operasion and naval base which we have but recovered subsequently and drove the task is hampered only by the line of Chattancourt. The French line reeled

the beginning of the war this could not

rate na

good friends. We were stitching the rents of the people in presence of a conspiracy established on the coast of Flanders. At Germans out of the region north of Chac-|

of Ireland into a sound coat. Instead of tugging this way and that we were carry- ing the basket together: God save Iro- land was shaking hands with God save the King. And now all undone ail un done! I'm sorry for the widows and orphans they're making, and for the that the outbreak made, but my heart's Borest for John Redmond: his life work's thrown into the fire."

He lifted his hands and left me, but, re- calling something in my face he returned and said: "I'm afraid to hear what they're muttering; I'm afraid of the amoulder of their eyen There's always dangerous water in an Irishman, and this wind, I tell you, 'is whipping it into a Loll

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I went to see a Indy after that. "What do you think of the executions ?*

· I asked.

Oh, I was glad af året," the answered, hut I am sorry now. Poor fellows -- they know not what they did. My son was in Dublin carrying dispatches, carry- ing the mail. His hat was hit onco, his motor-bicycle twice nt loart. He wan through everything. He talked with the surrendered rebels. The half of them, he says, wore growing lads. They didn't know they were rebelling till they were told to take their ground; they thought they were out for a review."

And then her eyes laughed through their Lars. They were so pleasant, tou. Did you hear of Mrs. Delany's adventure i"!

No, I said.

"She was staying at a club in Dublin. and when she returned from her shopping her knock was answered by a head from an upper window.

You can't some in," the man said and she saw a rifle-barrel gleam.

To put that thing away," she sairi, "it worries me. I must come in for I've two fur coats inside."

A cat thrust her head out of the window and rubbed against the rebel.:

"I'm sorry, ma'am, but this house is held: 'l give you a receipt in the name of the Irish Republic” He flung a paper down. Got under cover, ma'am," he said. feed the cat."

That must have been a decent chap," I said, "It's queer what kind hands get hold of dangerous tools. I hope he'll come off well: he and all the poor dupes. suppose they had to make examples. They couldn't spare the leaders."

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I said this in a wondering question, half to myself

They spared De Wet." said mu friend.

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A woman of thirty or so had come into the room.

"Did you know any of the leaders!" she asked. ***No."

“I did,” she answered. "Of what sort were they t "Thinkers, philanthropists, dreamers. knights, herves of romance. Not all, of course, but those that I knew. It's a fatal thing to love Ireland; she spreads her arms, her lovers come and her kiss is death."

It was a strange speech for a girl-a speech that never would have come from English lips. One must have breathed tragic air from one's birth to feel and to speak like that,

I wont home and turned her words into this z

IRELAND.

Ah, "for her lovelinèm and hor despair.

She of the shadowed moors, the speaking Borrows are dropping from her hair,

akica I

Lost stars are in her eyes. She knows the doom that she must

bear,

Another specific instance of the loyalty of this kind occurred in Balasore. Here the presence of a number of revolu tionarice was indicated to the police by villagers whom the agitators had ap proached. The peasants themselves assisted the police in tracking down and arresting the revolutionaries, some of them actually giving their lives in their loyalty to the Government in a melee that occurred when their arrest was effected.

Yet again, in every case where attempts regiments from their allegiance informa- were made to suburn sepoya of Indian tion was given to the Government by the soldiers themselves.

wish

Of course, there is a certain amount, though small comparatively, of dissatis faction and disloyalty in India. Among a population of over 300,000,000, compris- ing so many varieties of race and seets, and representing all degrees of politien] and educational development, how could it be otherwise? But even so, this dis- content is anarchistic rather than revo- lationary. It has no constructive pro- granime. It represents a desire to tear down authority, not a plan to set up n now authority te most emphatically that the persons at the back of this movement, such as it is, are not the intellectuals of India; they are to be found among the half-educated. The Ghadr party, so called because of the paper of that name which is printed abroad and introduced secretly, is frankly anarchistic. It is encouraged by a few crazy people in the United States and Western Canada, and probably subsidized by Germany. The head of the Ghadr party is Hardyal, who was at the time employed at the German War Ministry and who was last heard of, I believe, in Japan. This anarchistic party is small in numbers and influence, but it is desperate and dangerous. Its greatest strength lies in Bengal. Its predominant plan is to reduce the Province to chaos by the murder of police and officials.

AB you may remember, the Last Viceroy was, "like other individuals before him, the victim of these methods. |【 am happy to say I am quite recorored from the wounds 1 received on that occasion, and that my Ladian servant, who was on the elephant with my wife and myself, has also quite recovered. It may interest people to know that it has been proved that the bomb was thrown by one of a gang of three, of whom two have already suffered capital punishment for other crimes of a similar nature

Lord Hardinge's rèference was, of course, to the attempt against his life on December 23rd, 1912, when a bomb was thrown at him as he was riding through He was injured the streets of Delhi. all over the back and legs and head with fragments of the bomb, the flesh on his shoulders being torn in strips.

NEUTRALITY OF THE AMKER.

tancourt station inte Cumieres.

The

be foreseen, and the occupation of Antartillery preparation for a further Gr werp, Ostend, and Zeebrugge-this 40- man effort has already begun, both sides operation which now so often becomes pouring their military wealth into the apparent of German ships in the north battle. The enemy's gains have been purchased at terrible cost. The Ger and German ships in the south-is n wicked disturbance of English naval calmans show no sign of bothering about culations."

that aspect of the fighting. They brought up five new divisions in two days. The. whole question of the Yerdun Battle is how long can they continus the terrible sacrifce of life?

THE SPIRIT OF THE FLEET,

The writer then gloats in the usual England to Germany, without which terms over the cession of Heligoland by the fate of Hamburg and Bremen in this war would be simply unthinkable," and proceeds :---

The great

According to The Daily Mail's Paris correspondent the German Crown Prince drew three corps from the British front for the recapture of Douaumont.

NEW PORTUGUESE TREATY.

At a sitting of the Portuguese Senate last month Senhor Soares announced the of the Anglo-Portagnes : ratification Treaty of Commerce.

"It is upon the basis of such considera- Lions that one must judge outbreaks such as that which our Fleet recently made; against the English East Coast, against Yarmouth and Lowestoft. public, no doubt, will not assume that it was a mere question of bombarding some fortified coast places. In nuy case, such an asumption would be a mistake. It would also be a mistake to think that 11, was only an expression of the spirit of Great Britain has agreed to rerë gnize spirit is, indeed, just as fresh as ever district. enterprise in our young Navy. This as port only wines produced in the furo and when one sees or talks to officers and men one reads on their lips the desire. If only we could get out. The spring and the sitting still during the winter may also play their part in this. Only a well-considered lenderahip knows when it will use this thirst for action, and empley it in undertakings which keep the great whole in view. Our Navy, thank Gol, does not require to pursue prestige policy: the services which it has already

At o'clock the whole fight was over. rendered us are too considerable and tore important for that, "But our under- [ Our ships, as they did not desire to await taking against Lowestoft and Yarmouth the approach of stronger enemy divisions, is a classical example of the way in which took a course to the east. They had the English distort and falsify their reports about the attacks on the English

every reason to be satisfied with the result East Coast and the conclusion is natural English soil had once more been bril- of the battle. And the inviolability of show how troublesome these attacks liantly disproved. must be to them."

of

reception. It was a hunt from one net into Raother. An English cruiser, according to reports the Galated-was properly (richtig) torpedoed by one our submarines, and an English sub- marine, as the newspapers have already reported, fell a victim to a German sub- marine.

east,

BRITIS REPORTA

The

ACTION WITH BRITISH CHIPS, The writer then offers

The German writer then proceeds to following

criticize the English reporting about account of the German operations :--

The German naval forces arrived at

Lowestoft? It will be noted that the 5 am hofore the little fortified town of references to British official reports are deliberately misquoted. The article. Lowestoft on the East Coast,

It was already light, and one could clearly re | HY- cognize church towers and houses The In the official report which was com bombardment began immediately, and municated ja most of the papers it is the fact that our shells did good work stated that the Germans fed to the can be seen from the report in The Times

It is obvious that, after exmplet- some days afterwards that in the south- ing their task, they returned to their ern part of the town alone more than base. They had sufficiently demonstrated. 30 houses were wrecked, while in the

the inadequacy of the English forces on northern part two blocks of houses were the coast, and their work was complete. set on fire. Subsequently it was also In the English Admiralty report of reported that the English steamer April 25 it is stated that after about 10 Sunderland was struck by a German shell minutes bombardment the enemy forces and burnt. An Italian, newspaper, the withdrew. When enemy bombardments Corriere della Sera, even reported that are in question, there is always something 150 houses in Lowestoft were wrecked and wrong with the English clock, showed obvious amusement at the English German cruisers remained for a full hour efter the bombardment had lasted two towns, and fought a successful action. on the English East Coast, bombarded some time our cruiser squadron moved off But in London a minute is seldom grant- to Yarmouth, which lice only 7 sen miles ed as regards the period of our cruisers" to the north Yarmouth was sighted at visit, The feelings of the English are about 5.30 and was immediately bom- so delicate!" barded. Our gums hit their mark, as was proved by the fires which famed up. Meanwhile, towards 5.45, enemy forces were sighted from the south. A squadron of four light cruisers and a number of It is true that during the past year destroyers approached all of them quite attacks from her than seven very serious to the German but not equal in armament

ships: attacks from tribesmen just outside our

German abips frontier. They were, however, all re- at once began firing, and abandoning the pulsed and the tribesmen severely punish-bombardment of the coast places, pre ed. Frontier disturbances new present a pared for action against their enemy which are constantly referring to the very much more serious problem for the tribesmen, in view of the introduction of aeroplanes, armoured Cars, and high explosives. No serious trouble need be apprehended.

There are certain Germans in Persis and in Afghanistan (in the latter country they are now interned) who had wireless stations at Ispahan-now in the hands of the Russians and at Shiraz, and transmitted all sorts of information, true and false. This doubtless accounts for some of the reports which have been current in America, particularly with regard to conditions on the North-West Frontier.

"At the outbreak of the war the Ameer gave the Viceroy the most solemn 8ssur ances, which have since been renewed, of

"The English were in no hurry to defend their home coast, but as soon as they recognized their aferiority moved away to the south The German

pursued them, sweeping their course and sending up pillars of water.

Hits by our guns were noted imme

A serious fire broke out

After some guide-book accounts of Yar- mouth and Lowestoft, the writer con- cludes:

roduced to

"Our attacks on the East Cozat have already succeeded in causing the with- drawal to the west of the greatest part of the English fishing fleet. And the bathing places are gradually becoming desolate. One can see that from the letters in the London daily papers, miserable plight of the Eastern bathing places and appealing for help. The

Margate is now living in daily expecta- whole East Coast from Newcastle to tion of German attacks: Whole districts of towns have already runs, and sasuredly thousands of people out papers naturally do not mention it. The of his country; and I. as the ex-Viceroy, in the cruiser Penelope and a funnel Island Empire, unce so proud, is quiver- hayo the firmest confidence, in spite of was brought down. According to latering with rage at its own impotence. The the very great pressure put upon him by reports the cruiser is said to be almost courageous and skilful attacks of our certain members of his family and some entirely burnt out and nseless. The prominent oficials, encouraged by Ger-

German sailors saw a destroyer go down. mans and Turks who are in Kabul at the

"No further observations could be present time and who went there with made, as the enemy ships, thanks to their letters from the Kaiser in the hope of greater speed, were soon out of range. I laid my pen down and my wife entar-inducing the Amser to proclaim a Jehad When they had escaped from our cruisers on the North-West Frontier, that his they ran into the arms of German sub ed."Good news," she said, "the ezeen-

Majesty's promises will be loyally per marines, which were ready for their tions are stayed.?

"formed.

(Continued on next Column.)

And belds her heart to stay its breaking his intention to preserve the neutrality Ret and the pursuit assumed an ener have gone away, although the London

sighs:

And yet they breathe around her unsware: They call to all the faithful, fond, and They call the knightly dreamers every

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Navy have increased this feeling to n point that is intolerable, England, who once sent out her mercenary armies, alid let them burn and murder and pillage in foreign countries, while people at home quietly went on watering their gardens, is now feeling the was feeling it to her very marrow. She sowed the wind and has reaped the whirlwind."

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