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THE SINN FEINERS.

SYMPATHY WASTED ON IRISH

REBELS.

Dr. Herbert. Adamu Gibbons, a Home Ruler, writes as follows in the New ork enote that the American

Heraldt press, taking is cue from the ill-advised and baccarat speech of Mr. Dillon in the House of Cernmons, has been severe, in it endernnation of the Dublin excet- Lions, and seems disposed to make mar- tyrs of the Sinn Feiners. This is unfor- tanate. For it tends to excite ill-feeling against Ein British Government in Americs at a time when it is our impera- tive duty to use every effort to promote. mutual undersanding and sympathy be- tween the 16 Anglo-Saxon nations, whose world interests are indentical.

E is a warm and consistent Home Budder that 1 want to set forth facts that

seem to be ignored in America, and, for that matter, be a large extent in Eng- land,

sense, whe

the

The Sin Foiners are separatists pare and simple. They do not believe fax, the Horue Rale Bill. They retos to follow Redmond' and Nullmalist judy. They have never had in vir organization men of practical have developed qualiti of constructive leadership thrynigh the successful pursuit of busi mess or a profession. They launched a rebel against the Government in Basterk, which had her raison actr than to play into be hands of the Gerumos. This is proved by (a) the dozy, indefinite character of the B- public" they had in mind: (1) their fail

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still water in frosted patches, and creeps. A recent issue of Collier's Weekly (New through the castle policies, telling the York) contains an article whispering all the morlash of the brown American way correspondent, entitled great oaks something that keeps them Frederick Palmer, the well-known seems sleeping. The plash of the brown waters over, the weir beneath the castles England doing her part" Mr. Large fills the ears. A heron stands mer spent several months with the

From every great action the doctors lessons. The lesson of the need of trench who handle the wounded learn important helmets, is an example, and so is the lesson of the need of anti-tetanic serum.

Bank has also taught its lessons.

by Mr.

It is now clear that the battle of Jatland motionless in the shallow water surfeited! British army in Franco, and was one of

with the full meal he has just finished. the correspondents allowed to visit the Then from the direction of the town there Grand Fleet, so he is well qualified to comes the sound of a drum. If we draw auswer the charge"-brought by German- nearer we will see why it is that the locl Americans that England is shirking her

responsibilities to her Allies, The fol lowing are extracts from the article:-

One hundred and 10 wounded inen Were taken into the Royal Naval Hospital at South Queensferry and the doctors in charge of them lire contributed to the Lancet account of their wounds. They | sido is deserted, In the church square are classified as follows:-Shell wounds, some 200 kilted lads are saying a farewell 62: burns. 42; suffering from the effect to their sisters and mothers and other of fumes, four and from severe shock,oples' sisters and mothers, for they are tis. When they are working hardest it The British do not know how to adver- twe The suall number....of enses | marching to the wars, as their forefathers. of shock is remarkable

stems a part of their pose not to appear in view of have done before them from time in- the tremendous catmonade which was a memorin!.

to be working. I have known a staff fenture of the battle, but more remark- This little hamlet has sent ina teevery officer to sit up till three in the morning wounds were septic, though less than 48 matter how far back you go, every onfall, was muddling away almost to daylight." able still in the fact that almost all the war that Britain has engaged in, and no and then say when he rose

-seven: "I hours had elapsed since the injuries were siege, lenguer, every braw] "between | Not until I had known a certain English- received. It the custom earlier in nations has seen MacCallum Mhor's men man for two months did. I learn that he The war to blame the soil of France for well in the forefront of battle. And so had killed ninety tigers, won the Victoria the fearfully septic wounds inflicted it is that these men have left the loch Cross and high honours as an Oriental there Clearly we shall require to revise side and the frae. have left the fishing scholar. Why should he tell anyone. this opinion, for it is notorious that boat on the bench, and the sheep without about it? bacterial life surely exists on the sea. shepherd. Evidently all the elements necessary to

You know I am not the least interest- ed in being a hero or in winning the the making of a very septic wound are

Vistoria Cross," said a British officer. present on clothing and skin.

Was

There were many broken hones, and all

The last goodbyes are being said, and a girl with eyes us blue as the waters of the inch on a summer's day, is to her brother, a tall piper. See and no for tion was often necessary. The chief con and lock after Sandy for me. cern of the surgeon was the prevention feared he'll be led away by you French of sepsis, that is, of blood poisoning.lassics" "A corporal answers hez: "I'll

the fractures were compound. Ainpula: get to pipe to they Gerniane," she band baby."

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Two methods were adopted, representing look after mysel fine," and he kisses the seem to indicate a lack of military ardour what may be called the two great schools, girl and rejoins,his ranks. which have spring up during the to enlist in the movement the bulk the antiseptic school and the salt solution

school. of the Erigh peoply, and when, of com

The former is the school of manding ability, whe would have randeister, the latter the school of Sir

Almroth Wright. god had zin.rebellion hech successful.

It seems clear that, broadly speaking, Sir Algooth Wright's] methods gave the most generally favour able resilts. When once sepsis has gained a footing continuous saline irriga fioii seems to meet the requirements, does away with painful dressings, and is particularly na-irritating to the injured and exposed periosteum (sheath of the bone), which is so easily destruyed by the application of antiseptics." This independent testimony from the Navy to the great work of Colonel Sir Almroth Wright is of deep interest.

The rebellion was plotted and launch din chulance of the remonstrances and blendings of the principal Irish Nationalist, who had succeeded, after thirty yours,

wiming the cause of Home Rule The Sin Feiners were told thur by defying the British Government, and making the trouble, they might nul dify the advantages that had been gained by the wholly lawful and correct atitude of the Nationalists in sharp contrast to the lawlessness and potential treason of Sir Edward Carson and his followers.

Recent, thinking Irishinen, includ ing the must ardent of Home Rulers, be-

lieve that the Sinu Feiners, in rebelling against the Government, were guilty of two unpardonable crimes: (a) they tried to knife in the back the English Empire, during life and death struggle, by plotting with the German Government (b) they accepted the assistance of the Lackinites (Citizens Army), who were composed of the dregs of the Dublin population and wher confession of faith was murder and lot and arson in a word, “knarchy,

The military authorities, far from sluwing An autocratic and vengeful spirit, were most scrupulous and re-s. strained in the way they put down the Dualia rebellion. Although the army

løst in killed 17 officers and 89, then, and in wounded, 10 officers and 300 men, and the provocation was very great, there was no promiscuous shooting up of the surrendered Sinn Privers, The sad case. of Mr. Skeffington was unique, and proved afterwards to have been due to Likes Freesponsible, netion of an insane

officer.

The greatest of these changes finds ex- pression in certain allusions to the ad, vaniages to he

be gained by avoiding pain ful dressings" of wounds. The battle of Jutland Bank hus emphasizes a truth Sir Almroth Wright began his work on that has been plain to many doctors since the healing of wounds namely, that the surgical dressing-lint bandage and wool

is out of date. It has been found out It is a barrier to the free discharge of lymph which cleans the wound: it forms a breeding ground of germs; it sticks in the wound and dries on, and its removal is attended by great pain and often dan ger from bleeding: finally, it hurts the wound and is apt to destroy deliente heal ing processes, going on in it; and it is costly surgeon of print a few days.

great experience stated in

the "I believe we shall outlive the dressing after all. I used to think that idea was Utopian, but the war has opened

ago

men's eves.!*

of the Pross agent kind. But it was only The officer in charge of the company his British way of talking, for two days gives a warning, and the men huist their later he was killed, He was the first The officer of his battalion into a Germuni web slings over their shoulders. pipers form up in front of the columa trench in a charge." and as they move off they loss the drone Of course there are some people who and the stocs of the pipes. on to the think that anybody who says a good hollow of their shoulders. There is a word for the English must be what is chorus of farewells broken into by the known as an Anglomanine who uses wheeze of the filling bags and the buzz of broad a's, speaks of dear old Lunnun the great drones. The drum beats on the as they do on the vaudeville stage, and setting down of each left foot, and away holds his breath in awe at the mention of they go with cap ribbons flattering in duke. I coms of blood which has fought the breeze, sporrans Aswing to the stephe British twice, and would again for The drum rolls and the glen is wakened the right cause. My ideas of how the as it has been many times in the past. with the lilt of one of the finest marches British fight and the part they have that ever burst from the chanter, Baile played in this war were formed not in Ionaraora; it is better known to you the company of dukes or in dear old as The Campbells are Coming

Lunoun" from the gossip of the Strand, Round the town front and past, the old ino and but at the British front think that the great stone arched. gates, to the castle the British are entitled to fair play und walls where the pipers change their ine to be judged by what they have done to the salute, Failte Mbarca is." By rather than by the way they talk. I writs. march once more, and until they are over is that British army? Why doesn't the the burying ground they stop out to the in answer to nich questions as “ Where the humpbacked bridge the tane con British fiect destroy the German? Hasn't tirines. It stops with a sad little gasp England fallen down in this war?' as the bags deflate and are tucked under far as I have been able to observe, most each exter with the stoc ribbons to the Britans, and Irishmen ton, who have. fore, fluttering their dark blue, yellow fallen down fell in death with their faces striped tartan ribbons.

toward the caemy.......

Suddenly a man in the front four breaks into song. His clear voice, echoes hack to the listening women by the ina The Rover of Jauchryon, he's gane Wi' his merry men sae brave Neer how!'d care the back o' a wave Their hearts are of steel, an' a better keel It's no when the loch lies dead in its trough, When unething distichs it art,

A

So

Though the British-had supposed that. their part was to command the ass, three f million volunteered to cross the Channel is a different thing from volunteering or go farther overseas and fight. That

to fight in your own country against an invader, Mind, these three million did But the rock and the ride of the restless tide, not have to be ordered to fight. They An' the splash of the gry sea-mew The method of irrigation by saline Under the shadow of the hill the wind farmers, costermongers, doctors, lawyers, went of their own free will carpenters, solutions as uggested by Sir Almroth steals the song and carries it away and millionaires, and labourers, wth every Wright is beautifully devised to afford up the glen, but as the road crosses able-bodied man of Oxford and Cambridge, every possible help to the healing wound. tongue that juts into the lake it is still and other universities and great public Some terrible cases of cordite burns were borne faintly down: to: the listening schools offering himself. History has in the hospital at Queensferry, bet, re covered well. In speaking of these burns We ask through the drift and sing to the lifting, and never was there an effort more afforded nothing finer than this outpour- and their treatment the authors say: 0' the ware that heaves us on. "We on no account apply a dressing."

For From the crags under the beacon it is depreciated by those who made it These views do not, of course, apply to repeated wistfully. The wave that lack of guns the British in France had field dressings, which are protective, but heaves us The light goes and the to fight with flesh and blood against to hospital treatment.

lamps are lit in the cottages along the superior' artill ry-flesh and blood front. The tall girl who was anxious against machine killing. France need-

women.

There was not a single trial under martial law, in spite of Mr. Dillon's speech and all that has bem "written to the contrary, in bringing ringleaders in Hídrebellion (before a military court, the hilitary authorities acted in accord FRANCE INDOMITABLE AND about Sandy is the last to leave She rd help; England gare all she had

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HEROIC.

SENATE'S INSPIRING MESSAGES.

نشن

In the French Senate last month, at the

shades hor eyes with her hand and locks to give--the lives of her mon.

From ane as the thie strict letter of the Defence

again, listening the while, and down the Ind a she brought her ladian troops- of the Realm Consolidation "Act, passed

winding waters, the trough of the loch," anything to help win the war, by Parliament on Kovember 27th, 1914,

there comes the ghost of a melody, But My fast day at the British front was which reads: "For the purpose of the

the wind is fickle and it stays but aa revelation of what they had accom- trial of a person for ari offenes under the

montent, The girl turns and goes into plished, while they grumbled at them- conclusion of the interpellation regard a coltage near at hand. You'll not be selfes in making a new army. regulations by ourt-martial and the

I saw wantin the light yet a while, mither," she hundreds of guns--most of them madi pno sheent thereof, the person may being the national defence in the Govern arded against and dealt with as if ment was adopted by 251 votes against says, and the old woman agrees. he were a person subject to inilitary law six. Loud cheers greeted the announce

The seasons have changed the leaves in since the war began and manned by gun- and d'un give servis committed an ment of the figures.

the yellow St. John's ers three out of four of whom had never The wording of the glen affen under Section 5 of the Army Act

the Order was as follows: -----

wort changes the woul for the tartan warn a uniform when the war began. I of the. Lachiaus.

saw them place their firo with an accuracy. There are no young -puvided that where it is proved that

The Senate respectfully salutes those

men left in the town. There are on a German trench front about to be the fence is committed with the inten- who have died for the Fatherland, sends, ut old men and women and the sturdy attacked which would have pleased the tion of assisting the enemy, a person con-

youngsters fretting that they might too most fastidious of French astillers ex- victed of such an offence by a court-mar

be allowed to go to the wars. The blue perts All an English artillery officer tial shall be l'able to suffer death.". (Seg

eyed girl waits on the jetty for a steamer said was "I think our artillery work Chapter 8 Section 1, Article 4.)

that is as yet 10 miles down the loch. She was better to day. We are improving. knows this, but she must wait hero At They were amazingly, but not boasting last a pull of smoke heralds the approach or advertising sta

DENUNCIMION OF MURDEĶENS.

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to the soldiers and sailors and leaders of the armies and navies of the Republic and its Allies the grateful homage of the nation, and addresses to the populations of the invaded departments the message of its hope and the promise of its devo The mea earvicted under the Act of tion: Faithful to the traditions of pat

of the little boat that soon afterwards More than a million men oversea, three Parliament were either members of the riotic vigilance which are evidenced by.

creeps round the promontory As it ties millions more ready to go in the sen all the votes in favour of the credits de up at the jetty the girl sees two kilted secure. Remember, too, that the British provisional council of the Republic," who had attached their signatures to themanded for the defence of the country, figures on the deck. She sees them Tales have only a little av forty mile proclamation of the same and admitted the Senate confirms that under the double through a mist of tears, for one man, her tion population, about twenty-five mil they had done ; proved leaders of bands impulse of Parliamentary control and brother, has an empty sleeve. And yet lion less than Germany. One million who resisted aims in hand the forers of Government action great progress has be is the luckier of the two, for he helps volunteer, and England reviles the slack been realized in the preparation of the the other man to the gangway putting two million, and Enoland raviles the King, after they had been summoned

offensive and defensive military, indus his hands on the side rails. to lay down their arms; or men who had

"Two steps, the slackers still harder; three million, trial, and agricultural resources of Sandy," he warns him, but the blind man been convicted of murder. By murder I

France.

is safe at last, and softer hands have and she reviles the slackers harder yet in mean shooting ansed and unresisting.

have tones heard over the world, and taken by policemen, army officers and civilians.

The Senate expresses to the Govern helped him so much they French those who don't know these stubborn ment its confidence that, aided by experi-

didria see Just to give one instance, the hairbrained

ance and the lessons of the past, it will lassies. Alison," says he bravely, for it islanders as proof of their failure out of cut tess with a Polish name, for whom so much sympathy is being shown, on theity over all the organs of national de

continue to exercise legitimate author was dark when they took us through to their own mouths. You have heard of the front, and when I came back it was the lady who enjoyed ill health. The first day of the revolt ordered the shoot-

fence and employ all its energy in dark, too, leastways it was for me, Oh, British for the last eight months since ing of a policeman on guard at the Castle, strengthening the conduct of the war. Sandy, Sandy," cries the girl, and Sandy they realised the enormity of the task who was wholly unsuspecting. He had

The Senate recurds with satisfaction, the knows that the splash of web on his hand before them have been enjoying the pès- committed or tried to commit no act of results obtained by France, and her is not from the rain that has been simism which they call grousing. resistance against the Sinn Feiners. He

Allies, thanks to the necessary co-ordina

threatening for the last hour. So the Lef them win the war and they will was killed before he knew what was haption of their efforts, which will assure three go up the little street to the cottage still keep on complaining about their pening

unity of action on a united front.

where a very old lady meets them. “ muddlers! It is a national habit. prayers," is all she says when she has British Navy had a year's supply of Come ben the hoose, and we'll just have When the Welsh coal strike was on the stepped from the one armed embrace of coal in reserve, but you must not mention her son. And the four of them kneel sad that Finally came conscription. Then offer thanks,

yawo heard tales of labour unions which Put the scene back a hundred years to would refuse to obry; of the promise of the Forty-five or hack further still riots But the rints did not come be- and there is nothing new in it. Think case in that land where the majority it out for yourself, and ask what it is rules 99 ten out of a hundred were on- that brings these men of the heather and gaged in pointing the finger of scorn at the glen to fight for England. They have the hundredth they thought might not been treated as outlaws, hunted and slain come up to the scratch den them, their very language was Their dress and their music were forbid

Britain has given soldiers. She has yetund yet the music of the drunken sailor She has given to Rus piob-mhor enhoes over, the fields of nia, to Serbia, to Italy. Every week by the brave and innocent men, who lost Flanders and the deserts of Egypt, voluntary subscription, aside from tho their lives in doing their duty, many of through the ruined colonnades of Grecian. Government grant, she is giving $250,000 them set upon and murdered without temples, and is even heard in the African to Belgium-without advertising the warning or chance to defend themselves. jungle-Times.

The Senate relies on the Government to take, with the collaboration of the Chambers and the great Parliamentary Committees, all the measures of organiza tion and action, which will bring nearer the hour of victory. It proclaims the close union of the Government, the Army, and the nation in facs-of the enemy, and passes to the Order of the Day.

8. Tho convictions were confirmed, and the execution carried out, because the Commanding General was certain that the exercis of clemency would have resulted in a rapid and dangerous spread of the rebellion in other parts of Ireland. The collapse of the revolutionary move- ment, after the death sentences had been executed, proved that he was right in the step he took. He could afford to take no risks. Your I or anyone else in hist position would have done the same."

the safety of the Empire and the canse Why should so much ink be wasted in

of the Allies in a mad and senseices up sentimentalizing over the fate of these rising? I have no patience with the dreamers and visionaries, who, however mentality that glorifies the executed re-

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