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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, MAY 20гB, 1918.

WHAT IS HAPPENING IN ENGLAND

'THE WORK OF THE WOMEN'S LAND ARMY” 'WOOLWICH ARSENAL AND ITS WORKS”

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MR. DILLON'S TASK. WARNING TO SINN-FEIN.

Mr. John Dillon addressed his first public meeting as chairman of the Irish Nationalist Party at Enniskillen recently and was accorded a hearty reception.

Mr. Dillon said that he took the wel come given to him as an assurance that he could count on their sympathy and support in the heavy task which he had taken on his shoulders. He had come to Enniskillen not as a champion of civil war or of disorder, but as a champion of the party whose ideal was to obliterate for over the religious dissension and party conflict which had been the curse of the Irish nation for long. It would be his endeavour to increase the strength of the United Irish League as the national organization.

of Europe must be set free; and unless

All the world was longing for peace. A great statesman President Wilson-had, shipa, comparatively, and the "fringes declared that the road to ponce must be of the Fleet" supply the craft they by and through a League of Nations.. Sir But so much depends upon the Edward Carson had spoken with scorn need. success of this side-line." So the Navy and contempt of the League of Nations as a possible solution of this war. He did has bestowed upon it an infinitude of not wonder at that, because Sir Edward pains, and fortunately for the Allies-a Carson had always been an apostle of very thriving side line it is. To begin discord, and he was now carrying that with, those for whom, in the first instance, principle into the European war. Presi these pains were taken the merchant dent Wilson, as one of the leaders of man skippers were a little less than grate kind, had stated that no League of ful. They chafed at the Service bonds Nations could be permanent so long as in the night the fast ship arose and injustice existed in the world. To get rid went, leaving her slower sisters to it, of injustice all the oppressed nationalities something about losing the convoy." that were done there could be no League of Nations His own task would be to tell and, it might chance, got another earlier convoy home, with resulting profit; this England before the world that her states. men must cease to talk of a League of in the Nations, or to pretend that this war was convoy, if necessary, she lost same way. But fast ships that got safely through grew more and more the in defence of small nationalities, until she put her own house in order and get exception, for the bonds of the convoy free a country that had for 700 years had been imposed out of an experience

the message which he would convey un swiftly ripened. Mostly the ship that groaned under her government. That was lost a convoy found a U-bont, and paid, in the fourth year of war, for her free behalf of the Nationalists of the world to the Government of England. He was not Bo to-day the without hope that Sir Edward Carson, dom a prohibitive price fast boat is patient. The pace the comfter having surveyed the result of his modore sets she keeps, Nourished pure milk of individualism and filled with an entire belief that there danger in numbers, the whole duty of convoys, which is to keep station and not to straggle, was for the merchant be- skipper a hard saying. But it is coming, where it has not already become,

not a tenet of his war faith. These are the airy deliverances of a generalising journalist. I could cite in support of officer who has them commanding escorted or helped to escort a million and a half tons of shipping with a loss of one ship-due to straggling and a Port Convoy Officer who has marshalled a greater volume of traffic still, with the Eame practical immunity from sinking.

You can express convoy work in a sen- tence. The escort takes a convoy out,

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work in 1914, would shrink from up friction and differences in F He (Mr. Dillon) was too old to fear fai lure, and when his party invited him to give his leadership he could not derline

a more

THE CONVENTION AND ULSTEN- If the Irish Convention: failed to agree to a settlement, the Irish question would assume within a week or two formidable shape than ever. He was of opinion that Ireland was on the eve of one of the most momentous struggles in all her tragic history. Ireland was in a torrible condition. She was invited by-n clamorous and numerous body of young Irishmen to abandon her claim for Home Role

and to set up a claim for an Irish Republic

advocated that view were quito who

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ger people. It was merely. The full solution would demand section of the younger many pages, and one can only sketch futile to discuss a possible Irish Republic, briefly its general working out, and as the Sinn Feiners' leaders were The good ship Outis is going out and not united, nor consistent as to their wants to join a convoy. Her first step is aims, which were asserted one day and to discover her appropriate convoy buse, denied another, he asked why the Sinn Then, arrayed in the motley which in Feinere should not leave aside their dan these days at spa is the only wear, she gerous bluff and coalesce with their fellow to that base. She finds her countrymen, and make a united demand in the middle of a kind of ships for that which was almost within their barlequinade. As her fellow grotesques grasp. have done, she gives to the Port. Convoy Mr. Dillon warned the young, unthink- Officer such details about herself as being enthusiasts against being led into finds it useful to know. He revolves another rising. He also warned them that these in relation to the information the they were the unconscious tools of a deep variety artists around here details a compiracy to seduce them along a futile

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ia order to rob them of the prize him about themselves; on. works out a convey formation. Then on that was really within their grasp. The a day he bids the contains of all the ships ranks of the Sinn Fein movement, he to a council ashore. Brisk little motor knew, were full of police spies, and he launches gather them from the ships urged the people to set their faces against sides, and they muster at an appointed madness, and to maintain the organiza

tion that had already done so much for hour in an appointed room.

Ireland.

BRIPPERS AT SCHOOL.

I watched them le in-a race of sim A tall ple men in deadly earnest fieutenant commander at a table handed choking through the neck of the bottle. cach a parket."Book of the word, he The Port Convoy Officer (not too busy said, in the Navy's jesting way. The to make us who were to tell the story a masters received this jest grimly, and, courteous signal) marshalled the lines as crossing the room, nade. entries on with a wave of his hand. The escort took sheet spread upon another table with aven increased gravity. Then they took their seats on the wooden benches..

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up position; above an airship hovered. Then, trawlers, drifters, airship, escort, and convoy, we went with a hazza to sen. Clear of the land, the airship and some

It was for all the world like a school, and the blackboard the skippers turned of the escort left us. One, two, three days. their eyes to clinched it The board and nigifts the others went on with the showed the ships of the convoy in relief convoy stretched ever between them like a in position and the captains marked picture in e

six figures of Allied their place. There was a rustle of since it represented picture of price professor tonnage. Except for meals, and not anticipation: then the

escort commanding stepped in This was the Port Convoy always then, the Officer with four stripes round his cuff, officers never left the bridge the six days POST THIS FREE GIFT FORM an Irish accent, twinkling eyes, and a they were at rea; when they slept it was black beard. He began upon in the charthouse Only those, indeed, twinkling

which has daily variations, who have seen them can appreciate the his theme,

anxieties of convo work the dark ways they understood he gave the skippere the ing devotion of those who do it. Unless results of a good deal of research gathered by order of the commodore, no light burns life limb. He laid down among all the ships, and we ran into fog. at peril of land the two golden rules, But the pride of the escort in its convoy and

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The lesson ended, the skippers depart ed, gravely as they had come, and next morning the convor put to sea. The escort slipped outside and waited Then came the news, Convoy coming out."

WITH A HUZZA TO SEA"

It thrilled like the beginning of great adventure. There was a breathless dash about it. Out came

the ships (Continued at foot of nest Opluma.)

Then in the fog the escort turned about the ocean to look for the convoy coming home. It might easily have been a day or more in the search. But as it chanced & trawler had strayed, and lo! it wire fossed suddenly that it had found the A patrol's full-throated syren brought a faint answering sound, and escort and convoy felt their way towards each other. Then, as they had taken up position to shelter the other, the ships

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