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[BY ARCHIBALD BURD.]

TON-FOLTOS POLICY.

Lin Crete'

IRISH UNIONISTS" STATEMENT.

The following santgment has been issued by, the Standing Committee of the Trish Chłonist Alliance ;

A newly established body, dewribing.

choose?

right "bout the painter.`` Let there be no mistake about it. whether thr right" would exist or not, the painter would be cut.

The Siun Fein organ. New bretaud, makes this perfectly clar,

our strongest - rensam

SIR D. HAIG'S ADVICE.

Sir Douglas Haig revived the freedom of Liverpool and was given a rousing Under the Pener Treaty fermany and reption by the citizens on July 8th. He Austria-Hungary will surrender all their inspected Crimean and Mutiny veterans sen going tonnage to the Allies, and it is sad watched the march past of an hapossit elf as the Erish bominion, League, ha naturol that "some curiosity, if noting body of Lancashirë exsoldiers,

ised a muritesto witch is very curious -anxiety, should be felt as to the disposal Replying to the presentation of the inelamust,

of these vessels, amounting in the aggrefridom, "Sir Douglas Haig paid a tribute

We are told in the Erst issue of the xat. În about 3,000,000 tons. The people to liverpool's effort in the war, nod said : - Trish Statesman." the organ of that of Great Britain are particularis, inter I have, during many meaths, received badly, that it is not concerted to deny ested, in this question, first, because they frapent jusitation to give such suppert, tha Fight of the majority o the Irish Five "by ships, and, secondly, because in

ang name might bring to a number of people to · sejfajetermine themselves ant order to promote the Allied cause they jenevolent, assiciations for the assistance or the British Commonwealth it they extomed, without resrvation, the whole

In strange, contmst with the of their mercantile tonnage in

ex Service puru. It is an ohjeet which above, the manifesto ells us emragraple attack during the submarine campaign, and fost

I have very closely at heart. 1 haves that the Dominion status implies no Over (AB0,000 tons as a result of enemy

bound it napable, however, to identify ACTION. The losses, far exceeded those of mysely with any particular pue of those all the other Allies combined.

organisations, whether the Courades of in the circumstances we are parti La Great War or any other because cularly concerned in the disposition of believe the matter is me of such great and the German

surrendered under patronál importance that it ought to be the Peace Treats It is not a ship

En it issue" a shipowners her concern of a single national organist June sth 11 sags: They Gour estion, but a national questions Those

riod. (Cheers.) An effort has bera made Domitiionists) ask for the status of Aus- owners who has their ships sunk have already ferrived

body which should, unite tralia or Cagada. They must surely know Compensation-if inde Insurance scheme, and consequently it is quate rumpensation-under the War gether all other wages and associations that the first act of any freely elected which have been shirted by or for die Paribunent, in full control of Brish econo a mistake to regard the matter as one of

chargest aus demobilised Soldiers and nie and military, Rosotros, would be sa importance only to the shipping industr

*aitors. Eteis Imped to do much more dare an Irish Republie." It is a matter which touches the pocket than merely amalgamate existing organis We look to the musclesto in vain For of every taxpayer, especially as merchant sations, and rather to form new clubs and evidence of any solicitude for the safety shipping has now risen to a phenomenal societies, no only in vereat Britain, but areneity of the United Kingdom and price. Owing to the shortening of hours throughout the whole Empire for all who the Empire The manifesto admits the in shipyards, the the reluction of output

of the Wages of have served their country in the great abstract right to establish a Republic, but the workers, and the

Wallr. That movement has proceeded slow ronfines its objections to its effect n working hour, the tendency is for thes, and is still very far from achieving Ireland in the following words: cost of construction to rise. It is in thesa

We Success. It has to contend with the fact te ndvantage for Ireland in the status evvamstances a matter of vital import that there are at least three powerful of a Republic, but many disadvantages, anew to the British people that they should be

to secure at least their fair nations in existence and these have which na Feininíon she would not have share of enemy tonnage.

not at been ready to accept fusion, or at to fear best not to accept it in the terms offered to rejecting the Ernblican demand is to them. I do hold very strongly that that it must of Brewsity disastrously zome form or co-ordination in the work divide Irishmen wt time when every these different bodies are trying to do iseft should be inade to tanite them." As absolutely seentail. If there were of the FFreman's duterant of June 8th truly other reasons in envour of unaided effort

To establish an Irish Republic there is the avoidance of overlapping and within the lifetime if any of the existing waste of effort, the competition, and ten-gearrations involves the after deient of dency to antagonisin, signs of which are Great Britain and her redueting to already actently evident king Bodies adition quch as that to which rä An watch are really working for the same and Nothing could be more regrettable

trian Empire has been reduced." than this unless it is the tendency tooris to the manifesto apparently on- Such is the prospect which the signu velop a political "aspect- tendency templates with either equanimity or in- The ships retained by each Ally

which is the natural result of rivalry and difference. Their only objection to a r in accordance with (1) will be offset, and which has unfortunately public la that it would be disadvantagrou against the loss, and if the interned lady begun to manifest itself. We Ireland, while theftish Dominion

exered the losses, as in the case

went above all things to keep this great League to which, they belong is not f the United States and Brazil, for national effort to help our soldiers of all concerned to deny the abstract right to instants, the excess will be paid for in

ranks and their dependents,"clear" of all its establishment. the Allied pool.

political connections. (Cheers.) We settlement is in

It recognised by the signatories to the some respects in-

ould strive to do our work not by manifesto that the loyal Dominions of Savannahle to Great Britain, whose ser- rivalry, jealousy, and wire pulling one Canada, and possibly Australia, would vices in placing its merchant shipping against the other, but by comradeship and have the physical ability to secede frem at the service of the Allies have never reutual bel. We want to keep alive their present allegiance. if they so desired; been adequately appreciated. Only those amongst the Allies' service men the same and that other loyal Dominions, if ther connected with the shipping industry, spirit of mutual trust and confidence peoples desired separation, might meet who realise that without British ships Allied armies could not have been

which carried us through the war, and if with no apposition in the British Parlia maintained and the Allied populations through our present Effenities with a like

we do that we shall undoubtedly palt mune preserved from

starvation, can form

The possibility of the secession of loyal success. (Cheers.) And so my proposi parts of the Empire is contemplated, wort conception of the extent to which

off

thege different -Servier societiera desire to sreede. When, however, we throughout the country which is under come to the one part where disloyalty is consideration at the War (ffice has not rain pant, the one part which allied itself yet achieved success, and there is a limit with Germany and endeavoured to help the time that any man can wait. Way her to victory, which for years has been: should we not try and hasten the rehve demanding total separation, where the ment by starting on our own, each of us majority proclaim that they will be satis in the area he knows and works in 7 Sir fied with nothing less, and where the Douglas conchried by asking Liverpool terror of the boycott and the ballet of fater it was thought desirab that there for its achievement, we are asked to rely to lead the country in this matter, and if the assassin are the weapons "employed

for security

the population of England, Scotland, gainst secession on the mere "an and

substantial

and Wales, that a break in the strategic people and af.

unity of these islands

wonto involve them in the gravest peril. The important and substantial minority of the Irish

It is understood that agreement has brew reached as to the basis of distribu tion, the following principles having been accepted:

-Each of the Allies will retain the enemy tonnage in its possession, that is the shops captured or interned dur- ing the war.

The pensainder of the enemy Cor age will be shared by the Allies on b ten-for-ton principle, each country receiving compensation in propertion to the losses which it sustained owing to phemy action.

the

British merchant ships, manned by tion is this: The effort to amalgamate though not one of them has ever expressed

cur and ren of incomparable courage and tenacity, contributed to the victory which has now been consummated. A peace treity, as well as the settlements Howing from it, is

is necessarily a matter ur compromise since many Powers are invalved, and the instrument which has been fashioned in Paris is ro, exception to this generni, rule. But in gaining acceptance of the tom per ton policy, were measure of justice has been secured for British maritime interests.

SIPS IN THE UNITED STATES.

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should be a central co-ordinating body farrity of the

the whole kingdom it would be able to die

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The United States at the strih prvent the establishment of DAIRY FARM NEWS

aixut 2,000,000 tons of sea-going ship: ping apart, that is, from vessels on the Great Lakes; the Americans now have

5,000,000 tons.

The and

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to give effect to their belief they would

The apparent belief of the have to do so at the point of the bayonet. that the negligible

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It is desirable that the m.sapprehen The Real Burley Cigarette terene to the altitude of the United sin whah appararently exists with re Stalos, towards ener

enemy ships interned in American ports sbuuld be rer

remored. The on the other events on

side of the Atlantic goes some" way to explain the decision wich Dus now been reached. In the early days of the war, owing to the activity

owing e of the British nemy interned in ports of the United Statis large number of vessels, with Lggregate Lonnage of about $50,000 These ships included some of the finest passenger liners of the Hamburg-Ameri-

A larger proportion of American' than Can and North German Lloyd

of British tonnage is necessarily at will suffice to preserve the strategic unity So far as is known, neither the British carrying, because we are still preocca

companies.

at this moment, engaged in commerce nor any Allied Governinent questioned the legality of asylum being given to the pind with the urgent problems of dera ships, although it is obvious that if they bilising British, and particularly Demic

refuge in American ports

and supplying the army ion, troops

Furthermore, the amount the majority of then would have been option.

POSITION OF TESTER, British cruisers and brought is limited by a number of circumstances. festo which deals with 'ster, we are told

British

tonnage now being employed Turning to the portion of the mani- British ports as prizes.

On the rary, these German vessels were pro- in the first place, scores of ships, after that she is to be either exjoled or coerced. te by American neutrality down to their exacting war service, are being re- She is asked to state what special safe-

period-in 1816 when the conditioned, and in the case of any unre

guarde she demands, but whether she is Lited States entered the

War

involves elaborate

rate structural satisfied with paper guarantees against. then passed a resolution, the and other alterations.

Owing to the legislative or administrative injustice or legality of which in international law it air conditions in the shipyards this put, it is made clear that,

if the Doming is undreessary to pause to discuss, de secand place, labour, unrest exists at some Ireland, she must submit. We are thus claring that all these vessels had become of the principal ports, hindering loading would flow from the Luminion status, the progressing only slowly. In the on status is accepted by the rest of American property. In accordance with

asked to add to the other evils which th.s

resolution, the ships hoisted the Ame arriving

and unloading.

The other day a ship rican officers and

manned by American

America had to carry back probability, if its cargo.

not certainty, of civil war. ward, h, and from that time for

And then, thirdly, delays of though

American

the most serious character, art cecurring Figh regarded Khips, were

employed

in bunkering ships.. very largely in the

"The result of the interferences with the concerned for the pea are invited lavaluable for disawes of the important organt common interests of the Allies.

When the armistice was signed, public normal flow of shipping is to throw an krews of the Irish op.non in the United States expressed increasing proportion of the world a car by the signatories to join the League, and

£ ing throngly opposed to relinquish

rying trade into the hands of the Ameri to give it their moral and financial sup- mujor

the Norwegians Scardinavians, and believes that of these portion

eans, ships in acrordane with the ton-for-ton policy. terests are,

Trinb port. The

Enionist and the Japanese.

Alliance trusts These shipping in particularly as most of them would ther

list for

who are concerned the peber, order, and progress of have

passed automatically

possible advantage of taking the fullest our war embarrass under the British B

Ireland will resolutely decline to support As it is, the Americans

inerts and of the bandicap which British policy which,

Ды Tabour, will retain shipping far in excess of the quener

if successful, would pro without realising the small losses which they incurred by se

duca ronse

the very opposite results and con- roughly, one-twentieth of this country's mercantile position, upon which every

queners, is imposing upon the great and stitute an Imperial danger of the first essential industry of the losses-hut, to the extent to which the British interest

the country. The magnitude. The arguments in favour of interned slips exceed the losses, compenza-

the maintenance of the Legislative Union depends never more serious than it is today. The loves Iriand to pro-Germans and tion will be paid in cash to the commen

WAB indeed

were never so powerful as they are now. pool. The warne

Americans and the Japanese are turning

grant the Dominion status, and to be applied to Brinciple will, of course,

out a great volume of tonnage, and the rebels,

would ships are being well designed and well It Nothing

is to be gained by distorting to regard this competition as ephemeral set forth in their organ, the

built. There is no greater mistake than loyal le surprising to und presumably this matter or by importing into it con It is, on the contrary, a factor which will Statcaman," that siderations which rest upon, no relid have to be taken into serious account for Crown in Ireland is alien, irresponsible, Irish foundation.

the authority Keen competition by sea

of the with the United States must be regarded folly for shipbuilders and shipowners, been supposed that they would have done

a good many years to come. It will be and unconstitutional. It might as one of the inevitable results of the war. Bat

let us keep to Inets.

the immense body of workers assoll in their power to aid and encourage from the other side of the Atlantic

ciated with them, to believe that we have the efforts of the Irish Executive to ve ly published have tended to hide the seaborne commerce of the world...

an inalienable right to carry essentials of the present situation. We gained that position by eficiency and

balf the the country from a state of absolute,

We savagery; but this apparently is not so. have emerged from the war with almost economy and hard work and only by tary may rest assured that every loyal The Lord-Lieutenant and Chief Secre 15,000,000 was of shipping, whereas five years ago we had upwards, of 18,000,000

those means can we hope to regain our Irishman will support them in doing (Continued at fount of next cátúæn.)

former maritime supremacy--Daily Tele- their duty in the cause of order and ura pha.

civilisation.

CORONET

August 21st, at 5:15 pm.

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