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There is only one wise policy for the The methods of modern warfare, as a result of scientific development and leaders of edition. A revolt, once begun, PISTADT, July 24th.pecialisation, approximate more and must be turned into a revolution. There

more to comercial method. At the 18 no other way of personal safety, yet,ertain information to her German friends Events of the greatest magnitude are beginning of the war trenches were built as Browning noted, it is generally not Trays a Home paper). The traitress was taken. In Ireland thus moment the notoriously German in her idea and crowding on the heels of each other within a more or less casual manner, and, such rapidity that it is hardly possible since the power of heavy artillery was almost over-successful course of Binn Fein sympathies, and although preteading a to chronicle them, still less to:give a imperfectly realised by both sides, the is beginning to suffer from the first great patriotism for Russia, and visiting

· picture or a reasoned statement. The in need of deep shelters and of reinforcing whisperings of divided counsels, Madame the hospitals, where there were wounded Commandant de soldiers, in the guise of sweet sympathy," discipline of certain regiments of the the spade and pickaxe of the sapper with Markiewicz and

Germans, forewhon her influence had Eleventh Army, which has let the Austro-machinery had not even occurred to the Valera are of the sterner party, and know she was surrounded at court by pro Germans through, was due entirely to the enemy, despite the superiority of his that any recognition of the Sinn Fein gained a very large share in the adminis. many and Amurica depends upon its chener contemplated visiting Russin," but agitation of the extremiste, which, as scientific equipment. To-day everything policy by its financial supporters in Ger- trations. was known that Lord Kit If a Fronchelaupionship of flat rebellion. flut the none knew the date of his deparure from every day shows more clearly, is the work has been systematised.

the founder of Bins Fein himself, at Minister, some members of the Cabinet, of the hidden hand of Gorman spies and Genaral requires, either for offensive or valorous beginnings of others, among the England excepting the King, the Prime agents. The impudences of this pro-defensive purposes, extensive dug-outs being sicklied o'er, and a definite impuls and a few high officials of the army and paganda is almost past belief. In the capable of sheltering large numbers of M. rivis has side itself felt. navy administration, all of whom should

be relied upon for absolute secrecy. men against heavy bombardment he is no Markievicz made

To his next morning solristy, on: Eleventh Arny the effect has been to. nullify the advantages of the recent ad- longer exclusively dependent on his milithe part of some of the Sinn Fein enders special-courier had gone ahead bear yano: us Halicz, and to place the troops kary engineersithough, of course, they are there are several contributing causes. ing secret dispatches informing the Rus Germany is at least not going to win this the projected visit. The Carina heard of composing the advanced föres retiring responsible for the greater part of his The first is the growing perception that sian Minister for War of the details of

French authorities war. organisation. The

A second is the always widening the courier's arrival, and prevailed upon west of the Bereth in grave.danger.

of Ireland make a second organized rebel-Minister to let her know his mission. As As if this alone were not enough, the have created a special department, which knowledge at the military preparationssle of the confidential secretaries of the shortest possible motive at any point of of sheer moonlighting would be merely to know, the Czarina seat for the notori A third is then ou, Rasputin, and was closeted with the front such shelters as the General inconfession of ailure. Viloa front, a Tsary-Boguski,

command my desire, just as a big bruneasy feeling, never wholly absent from him for some time. Within three hours Russias adanced and took the German positious, with a thousand prisoners, but might provide tents or any her kind of the mind of the secret councillor of Frist the Carina's secret wireless plant at the The General has only to edition, that his next neighbour is going Palace was sending the news to Berlin, equipment. were unable to take further advantage of choose, as it were, trous a catalogue the to throw up the enterprise and make his and the Kaiser and the Germans Way Lordy as developing this kind of shorter that he nerds. They are on terms while the adversary is in the knew the very day and hour on which the their succeBS, fur, advantage, the further, unsteadiness at all standardised, and when the order is way with kim, I believe that the suspil | Hanupshire was to leave with Earl

all stands, and will put the sack cion in the car of Arthur Grifith and Kitchener and his stoff. To intercept the THE "LUXO” BATH TOWEL.

John MacNeill is quite unjust, but MOTAL WERKBess tu certain regumentis v

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plain nun among the Sing Feiners knows cruiser with a dozen submarines wus an to well upon the operationS,

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that the une did not sign the famous Pro- easy task, Petrograd knew aulable was the kerge conduct of the

clamation of Easter Monday, 1918, and Czarina's duplicity, beenuse of the wo- ART OF SHELTER DIDOING. <tirers, who, in currying out their duty, fell in missUK. The above is sulferent

The shelter-digging service, which can that the ather had attempted to counter-man sowir boast in tongue and ill-conecal- indicate that the cancer of inauborgana-

undertake any other useful services, and the mobilisation of the Irished pro-Germaniom. So elated was she at zive and indiscipline bus made headway

from ustoding barges to clearing away Volunteers on the previous day. The the news of Kitchener's death that she like this at the price. Knotted fringes. the debate of ruined houses, has been eternal obstacle to all Irish edition is the could not refrain from confiding to num- ia all parts of the Army, If this hap

existenes for about a year, and in that tendency of each rebed to look upon his oer of her favourites the part that she very durable and satisfactory bath towel. pened in any other army one might con-

dently predict its final disintegration and tim, it has constructed on the most rear rank tean as a traitor to the cause, and Rasputin had played in bringing it deftat. Bus Russian psychology is cap approved principles abris capable of and the present Sinu Fein movement has about. These favourites "confided" in

and suffered from it more than other attempts. their friends with the result that the Will stand hard wear for years. able vi such extraordiary turns and dimodating men permanently changes that it is yet pessible that the twice as many temporarily in case of need. This is partly due to the irresolution of whole Court, and later the public, knew

The machinery used is of the simplest and the Church. The extent to which ebedi of their false situation may be saved.

iost ingenious character. With it thence to the priest is still for an Irishman complicity in the matter, fatigue of the workman is reduced to a categorical imperative is still There is still left some common sense minimum, and the earth removed from the known factor, and the leaders of Sinn ignorast excavation carried away automatically. Fein are as much in the dark as ans. But among the leaders not the

Last week's riots in Petrograd,The speed with which a huge underground the cowardice which assumes the cowardice present curious rapprochement between I only tends to return the it the chance of neting in a way that will i used properly, may just enable the barracks with accommodation for several of another does not prevent, the spread of the Nationalists and the Unionists even Low Irish movement to is old channels of preserve a Catholic Ireland probably the Government to save the situation, parti) thousand men ens be complewd is almost sedition. cularly as the Provisional Goverment miraculous, and that within a Jus declared itself & Committer of Public hundred yards of the enemy. A special passive resistance. isolated cases of cold last chance it will have. It will have to forin? of these machines can be used and imid murder, cattle-driving and local demand in freer hand from the misinform Safety, with the support f a vast actieilly in the front line wrenches, and intimidation, weapon which have brought ed Varican than it has ever get claimed: they are at present carrying out along the Hone Gernments to their knees before but if it makes the requess it will be Kanjority of the "Savus."

and which seem quite likely to have granted. No German influence exists in Chemin des Dames, under a perpetual now, t bombarduight, an invaluable work, which ne les an effect upon any administration Rome at this moment sufficient to intuee willguns the waving of many hundred continged upon the lines laid down by the Curia to identifierent to induce the late Secretary for Ireland. The out Catholic liberty in Ireland. Two yours look in Ireland remains as dark as ever. ago the monstrous suggestion would have lives.

The main characteristic of the shelter Sinn Fein will crush Redmondigt as an been entertained. The Irish hierarchy is this step, there was an immediate feeling digging service is its businesslike methods. active forer in Irish polities: so far from box free to regain its position: but it gan of relief. Rapid action in fixing guilt It is directed by civilian engineers, who harming Ulster the headlong miccessex only be done by frank co-operation with Mputs then people against whom there is are often assisted by the same subordinates and excesses of Sinn Feinism in the south the Nationalists and with Ulster. proof of connection with the German that they had in civil life. The General and we have strengthened Unionist attempt to soy dissension in Russia would who is at the head of the service is a man determination to the point of certainty

The other possibility of salvation that who is awake to all the possibilitjes of

One of the most conspicuous and signi Be a salutary lesson. Trial, if sale al modern applied science and who spares no scant characteristics of northern Unionism lies ready to the hand of the parties of apid, with the immediate death penalty pains to ensure perfect organisation. The is its unwillingness, perhaps its inability, order and liberty in Ireland in conscrip for the must guilty, would have an im ancasurable effect on the massee What is workingą themselves are soldiers belonging to triutuph publicly. Were it otherwise, tion. The time has gone by when the word to the oldest contingents, who bad bad ne all Ulster would be ringing with grasi and its meaning need to be veiled. Con- necessary above everything is decisive and special training, but who, under the

The swift action. If the Provisional Govern- tuition of their officers, aided by special tude to a set of rebels who had up to the scription was not applied to Ireland trom

bils proved the justive of her ease against a sense of politeal insecurity.

eighty rotes" terrified the British ement acts in this spirit it may yet save machines, have acquired extraordinary

But Belfast takes the Redmondism skill in their work. Often their task is a the country.

ignorant anxiety expressed by interested The reasons publicly given by Prine dangerous one, and they have to burrow sternest attitude. She remains silent, and Government, and all kinds of civilian and parties combined to tie the hands of the vaff for his resignation denote an imin ground torn up by shells, where fresh she attends the Convention,

then Prime Minister. As a matter of fact, patieses with existing circumstances. He shells are ever bursting. Yet they face

But over the relations existing between the members representing Ireland at that that the Socialist danger and difficulties unflinchingly, and takes the stand

there has sprung up among them a strong

moment would have been glad to know Ministers had broken their agreement not feeling of esprit de corps, wisely fostered Nationalists-I use the term of those whemo-there are only a handful at this to forte Socialist, reforms until after the by their oficers. Each company has its are toth followers of Mr. John Redmoor that their inevitable opposition to such a meeting of the Constituent Assembly special emblem, generally some burrowing and opponents of Sian Fein and Ulster scheme would be overruled by the House Also he considers that it is only within animal, such as a mole or a rat, which it a subtle change has been growing of Commons.

The former do not the competence of this Assembly to declare paints up proudly ever the entrances of for fifteen months.

Russian Democratic Republic. Perhaps the finished shelter and this wotem finds a forget that it was owing to the instant inability of the Home Government to

mobilisation of Carson's Volunteers understand the difficulty in which this is not the time for the Socialists to place on the fanion of the company that reprisals against Nationaliste in the trouble of recent times is due.

Nationalist member is placed that most of Ulster were prevented in Easter week, Parliament as out of it an Irishman is a push reforms at a moment of crisis like Morning lost."

1916. The latter cannot refuse the Red this. But if the majority of the Pro-

doublet. On the one hand, he has to mendile members of Parliament a full subscribe publicly to a gigantic bluff-the visional Government think this necessary. surely it is the duty of a patriotic man to has been already raised, and as soon as measure of recognition of their loyalty product of generations of large and small remain at his post after registering his it can become effettive the Committee of to Great Britain during the strain and intimidation and of passing pang of When the dust dies fanaticism. On the other, he knows, none protest. It must be clearly understood Public Safety will have an instrument stress of the war.

down it may, perhaps, be Willie Red- that the basis of success of the extremist with which it can operate. The masses mond's name that will symbolise this new better, that the prosperity of Ireland is wholly dependent upon the continued agitation is the expenditure of lavish pro-

An unrelenting champion of connection with Great Britain, and that sympathy. uises of impossible reforms. It was easy

Home Rule, he died for England's cause, her peace and liberty depend upon the for them to do this when they had no

Some curious incidents have come to my and the Ulster stretcher-bearers never bore exact performance of that duty of just power to fulfil them.

notice respecting last week's rioting, a man from the trench-front with tenderer On the other hand, the Provisional which illustrate the necessity of decisivo care. Moreover and it is on these side administration which before the world bet

loses no opportunity to prevent. Government, with all the factors before it,

At this moment conscription in Ireland sces the impossibility of satisfying the action with the strongest deterrent-the issues that all Irish history has been death penalty. In one case where an founded-the loss of Willie Redmond's

It would not be extremists' demands. It requires a firm officer came out in the streets with his rat to an open rebel has stiffened this would be accepted. basis from which it can draw force, and sach force must be sanctioned either by company in motor lorries with Maxims he sympathy. There is in the air & feeling accepted with general enthusiasm any The majority of the population or a email told a friend that he ought to surrender, that a greater issue has arisen than more than by the life-long anti-congrip that possessing nothing he supported the partition or an adjustment by artificial tionists of England when it became neces- means of Ireland's jarring interests Mr. sary here. But if it were inevitable it highly organized and quipped minority.

extreinists because he was convinced that Redmond now understands why Ulster would bring relief to every responsible The latter cannot be found at present, they were going to win. I have no feared to trust herself to the tender mer section of Irish opinion. That the elder hence the Provisional Government seche thing to lose; therefore, it is necessary cies of the South and West of Ireland. men have become afraid and tired of the the sanction of the former. The majority that I should be on the winning side. Sir Edward Carson renders a tribute younger men lies perhaps at the root of of the population, who are peasants, re- quire, demand, and clamour for immed this man, and such as he, knew that the steady loyalty that has for the time this willingness to accept a measure of failure meant immediate execution he wrecked the official Irish party. The two compulsion, but that it exists there can iate agrarian reform. If a satisfactory would not riut. He would think before look about for, the means of common be no doubt. The Church in by tradition solution of this question be found im

acting. Another incident. The first action, and they find beside them, silent a champion of discipline, and the lack of nediately, even if only in a temporary

anter, the peasants will support the night of the Revolution the militia in and discredited, the two grent forces that it in Ireland has caused all her present

surpasted. Hence the district around the Narva Gate broke have always swayed Irishmen more deeply difficulty. The Nationalists are not un

willing to see their own fraak loyalty to mower which accomplishes this. the insistence of the Socialist Ministers in houses at midnight and chased out the than any other.

men, women, and children into the That the Roman Catholic Church is one Britain in the faen of grave opposition put into action by their own party. on this point. With the land onestion streets, threatening to shoot them if they of these must be clear to any reader, how-

olved and firm authority at the head of did not go and demonstrato on the Nevskytever, transient his interest in Irish affairs Ulster would welcome it; 'at present her recruiting is checked only by a sense of affairs the chances for the country wea-Prospekt. When they asked why, and for The hierarchy stands at this moment in a insecurity. All three would se, in such thering the storm become once

whom they were to demonstrate, they white sheet. Sho has neglected her possible. :

received the answer:-"Out; go and fill authority and temporised with forces that a policy the only possible and proper corollary to the calling of a Convention the streets, and rist, for whom it does not are frankly anti-religious. That she has which in to raise Ireland from the alough matter." This militia was disbanded. had many excuses, if not justifications, of political despond and make it an netly must be conceded; but deeply buried in The foregoing shows that the desire of the heart of the most material Irishan and autonomous partner with Britain in is virtual dictator. His disinterestedures the majority of the people is to live their of the Homan fold is a reverence for the the huge task she is now shouldering with is beyond suspicion, while his fervour, lives in their own way. When they come priest that nothing can destroy. It was out calling upon the sister island for her loquence, and driving force are what is up with any force they pass along with the first duty of the hierarchy to see that share of the work..

As to the probability of serious resist- necessary to bring Russia through the the current in which they are driven. that reverence was never drowned by a crisis. The Revolution and the State are Sacha spirit is extremely dangerous when flood of political fanaticism, and it still ance, the contention is ignorant where it

first duty andoubtedly in danger Directly the the elements of disorder take power, but remains their soclesiastical councils pulsory service in Ireland would be Theria is not dishonest. The enforcement of com. situation was taken in hand with it makes the task of the Government timidity in atrong grip the extremists vanished. But easier, for the sympathy of the people to-day. The younger men are intoxicated difficult only in the less-populated dis- with the heady wine that the archbishops triste of the farther west and farther the cancer is nut cured; it is merely out will then be with them.

and bishops have allowed to be brewed at south, and ita continuance ther, would out, and the roots are still there, and The problems before the Government is Maynooth: but has the authority of the create not nearly such a difficulty for the while the patient is predisposed to the inm ase On their success reste the future Roman Catholic Church in Ireland no Home Government as will the Sinn Fein malady it will surely recar. A further of Rassis; they stand on the brink of a merns of dealing with the O'Flanagans movement, of which the bottom would at preventive operation must be made if the procinice. If they can hold back the coun- and other insubordinate clerks within its once drop out if compulsion were accepted patient's life is to be unveil. The question try the situation is saved, if they are jurisdiction? Or does it wait for by their political opponents in Ireland. In the What is the alternative f Military of the reintroduction of the death penalty encule to do this, the country will rush political light and leading!

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