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THERE ARE IRELANDS
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BY ROBERT LYND
is possible to understand the present situation in Ireland only if we ས it against a background of hiu- tory. And the story goes back a long time.
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Let us begin nearly a thou- sand years ago, when, for the last time so far, Ireland was both united and free. 'Th Danes
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in **** those days, and King Brian of the Tributes had beaten them off for ever at the battle of Clontarf. A minor Golden Age followed during which national civilisation the
flourished.
In the following century an Irish Quisling brought a new invader inta Ireland the Anglo-Normans. Many people think that religion is at the root of every trouble in Ire land, but it
Catholic England that first conquered Catholic Ireland.
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In century after century, it WILM the object of the con- querors to destroy Irish civili- sation language, customs In spite of this and culture. many of the descendants of the English settlers became "more Irish than the Irish" themselves, and helped to maintain the national trad tion.
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the reign Queen Elizabeth, when revolt after revolt took place, the conquerors were bent on a policy, not only of conquest, but of extermination. Froude Eliza- of the says of one bethan leaders that he was not a bad man, but that "he regarded himself as dealing rather with salvage beanla than with human beings, and when he traced them to their dens he strangled their cubs out their entire and rooted broods."
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Cromwell, a better still, repeated the horror of devastation, and, when King William III. defeated James II. and his Irish followers at the Battle of the Boyne and at Limerick, it seemed as if the flame of Irish freedom had gone out for over. The Pope, it is interesting to re- call, was on King William's side, and had joybella rung in Rome In celebration of tho Orange victory at the Boyne. In the eighteenth century new patriotic movement grew up among the Irish Pro- testants, with Dean Swift as of the leading figures. one Driven out by oppression and misrule, many of these Pro- the testants emigrated to American Colonies, and, az- cording to Lord Mountjoy, speaking of the American.
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War If Independence, "America was lost by Irish emigrants.**
About this time, the Pres. byterian settlers in the North flocked into the ranks of the Volunteers, and, with their help, Ireland gained a Parlia- ment of its own in 1782. The Parliament was corrupt, how- ever, and the revolutionary spirits of the time demanded not
only Formal *34* liberty In the rebellion that followed North 24 well South took part.
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the Union, achieved by the bribery of corrupt men and opposed by what Lecky calls "the briged intellect of Ireland," Pledges made the time were not kept, ami wealth was drained from the coun Try, since the landlord class migrated from Chablin 10 London.
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The famine of the forties fell
poverty-streken country. destroying atonal. mullion people; and the Trish race dwindled slowly to about half its former size
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THERE is no use remen- bering these things with bit- terness. All powerful States behaved badly during those black
But centuries.
It is necessary to understand much things in order to realise how
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difficult it is to uproot the widespread Irish-as I think, mistaken-suspicion of Eng-
Jand,
Even during the last war, when Ireland sent 500,000 soldiers into the British Army, there were anti-Irish influences at work in this country determined to defeat, not only Germany, but re- Lazic.
As for the Protestants of Elster. many of them Are equally suspicious of thuir Catholic fellow countrymen. After the rebellion of 1798, propaganda about Catholic atrocities performed its pur- puse, ardu Kreat Ulster leader, the Rev. Henry Cooke, re-lit the nectarian fires of the seventeenth century with re- sults that have lasted.
At the beginning of the list war many people hoped that the two sections of Irishmen would be brought together by their common interest in pre- venting a German conquest of Ireland. There were leaders on both sides, however, who could not forget their here- ditary suspicions ever in face of that deadly threat to their einmon country.
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HENCE, when the Anglo- Irish Treaty came, the Six Counties demanded the parti- tion of Ireland as a price. If it had not been for this, we should probably have seen Mr. de Valera, not holding on to neutrality to-day, but play -
ing a similar
part to that
FRENCH
By JOHN PUDNEY
CLOSE your eyes as we sit with our glasses
ing.
round a table in the cool of the urban even- "Bon sante, monsieur," they have said, and it is just another evening in that long suc- cession of French summers,
The gunsmith of the town has thumped the table to point the statement that he zold 85,000 cartridges last year, the accountant in the beret is disinclined to believe him, the large draper drinks deep and shrugs often.
The pungency of an unti- dily-rolled cigarette sharpena the Gallic atmosphere.
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"Two 'arves o" mild" de-
the mande
spell-breaking voice. Open your eyes on the court-yard of the London pub stout ladies. with stout at the tables, bus conductors on the benches, a thin solemn. Cockney on my right who desires "mild."
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But the three gentlemen from the same town sit there in their French uniforms, talkative, courteous, gravely bewildered in the midst of the familiar clamour of the Cock- noy week-end scene.
The know each other at home, yes. Then the war scattered them in different
regiments.
They now eagerly discuss their families, sitting among
narrow
the Cockney families in the court-yard of the pub; and they celebrate this unexpected reunion in the suburbs in English beer.
"It blows you out," says the large draper of our beer.
"One must treat it with re- spect," adds the gunsmith.
On the whole they approve. English beer they admit is an acquired taste, but they are satisfied that they have ac- quired it.
51. A Wook You may have seen some of these lonely servicemen from defeated France, strolling through London streets. They do not look very guy, few of them, speak for English, few of them have news of their families, few of them many coppers to sparo (those I talked to are getting 68. a week pay).
With one accord all the French soldiers and sailors I met this week-end testifled to the warmth and friendliness of the ordinary man in the street, though the language difficulty is often most acute where the spirit of Entente Cordiale is at its highest.
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played in 1914 in South Africa by General Botha and General Smuts.
Personally. I think it is an error to raise the question of partition just now. If the Nazis won--as they will not
much worse fate would befall Eire than separation from the Six Counties. Simi- larly, if the
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In the circumstances, is it wise for Mr. de Valera or Lord Craigavon to refuse to meet the other and to co- operate in defending Ireland against possible invasion ex- cept on his own conditions 7
It seems to me that this is
a time when the South should
for adopt,
all-Ireland
pur- poses, the Northern slogan, "No Surrender!" and when the North should reply by adopting the old Irish slogan, "God Save Ireland!"
SOLDIERS
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Nobody could suggest that the elrcumstances of their present trip here are happy. But both among those who wish to go back to their fami- lies and among those wishing to fight along with us, these dark days seem to have esta- blished a solidarity with this country, more particularly with the working-class people of this country whom they are now seeing for the first time..
"I have seen your soldiers and your sailors at Dunkirk,' says a sailor from the South. "I have now also seen the or- dinary
You have people. something here, mon ami!"
"La France n'est
pas morte," somebody Rays. Exiles in the bár hod their affirmation and drink.
In the pin-table saloon are uniformed Africans wearing ear-rings, Alpinists in thick woollen
small stockings, knowing Parisians. Anyone with a penny to spare is a magnet to them; twenty or 80 of them surround the player to watch the flashing lights. Pierre, a sailor from Brest, tells me that he has spent free evening every watching the sport."
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They Miss The Coffee Along the wide parade of shops there is one cafe where
some- French.
they have discovered body who speaks That shop ja doing a great traffic in their meagre pence. As for July 14: that was still a red letter day for some of them.
The three citizens of the one town by careful living managed to save 58. each. They took it to the West End and sat down in a restaurant at
(not Piccadilly Circus cheap, alas) and celebrated, like good Frenchmen, till their week's money was gone.
And English food?
When it is plain they like it, but they miss the long loaves of bread and the good coffee.
Last-War French
Eittle pocket dictionaries are handed about in the pin- table saloon, the pub and the bright week-end shops. A few words of English are tried; they sometimes get a few words
of last-war soldiers' French in reply.
! Something in a pub which cemented the undying soli- darity between the working men of two countries was the whiskered bloke in the cloth cap who winked at his Mrs. and husklly holleredout "Vive La France." Every- one drank the toast,
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Firing Practice For Week
Warning Issued
To Shipping Firing Practice, as under, is notified for to-day, September 2:
Light Gun Firing Practice between the hours of 0 p.m. and 12 midnight. Firing Areas "D" and "E" will be
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Smart A. R. P. Exercises
nor, was
Governor Watches
His Excellency the Acting Gover- Lieut. General E. F. Norton, £7 interested spectator at a series of A.R.P. sector exercises held In the Shaukiwan division early yesterday morning.
The Governor was accompanied by the Director of ARP. Comdr. A. H. S. Steele-Perkins, and Wing- after inspecting a squad of Wardens -who were complete
steel helmets, uniforms and gas-masks. proceeded to, the locations where the exercises took place:
with
Firing Practice, as under, is notified for September 3:
(a) Light Gun Firing Practice
These consisted of five incidents, between the hours of 2 a.m. and and the most realistic ono was one p.m. Firing Arca
will be when a live incendiary bomb was affected.
supposed to have fallen in an open (b) Anti-Aircraft Firing Practice space behind 64 Salwanho Street. between the hours of 9 a.m. and causing a large matsbed
to catch Área of
the are. p.m. in the Western Island.
An incendiary bomb with mag- Firing Practice, as under, is notified nestum compound inside, was set on for September 4:
fire, and it was smothered with sand (a) Anti-Aircraft Firing Practice by Wardens who went to fetch the and 4 equipment for dealing with in- of the ceadiary bombs from 04 Salwanho
Street.
between the hours of 9 a.m. p.m. in the Western Area Island.
(b) Light Gun Firing Practice be-
A large pile of wooden boards was tween the hours of 6 pan. and 12 then set on fire, and a cali put midnight. Firing Areas "D" and through for the Fire Brigade. Tha "E" will be affected.
Firing Practice, as under, is notl-be played on the fire was 12 minutes. ded for September 5:
time taken before the hoses could
were
те
Other exercises dealt with high (a) Light Gun Firing Practice be- tween the hours of 9 a.m. and 4 p.m. explosive and gas bombs, falling on Firing Arens "A" and "B" will be buildings, and Wardens affected Alternative date Septem-quired to make the necessary reports ber 8,
and carry out the usual precautions. Mr. A, E. Gerondal, the Deputy (b) Anti-Aircraft Aring Practice between the hours of 9.a.m, and 4 Chief Air Raid Warden, acted as p.m. In the Western Area of the umpire, with Mr. B. H. Puckle, Island.
Deputy Director of A.R.P., as umpire. Light Gun Firing Practice will be at the Report Centre at the Chilas carried out between the hours of Can Company. p. and 12 midnight on September:
Before Icaving, His Excellency Firing Areas "D" and "E" will be inspected a squad of Quarry Bay air under Divisional
Wardens
affected,
Firing Practice with Blank Gun raid Ammunition will be carried out in Warden C. P, Scath at the Talkoo the Sai Wan Tylam Gap Area be-playground.
Others present at the exercises tween the hours of 8 am and 12 noon were Major C, M. Manners, Chief Air on September 0, "
Raid Warden, Kowloon; and Major' A. V. Petric.
LICENSING BOARD
A meeting of the Licensing Board will be held in the Council Chamber on Tuesday, Noveraber 6, 1940, at
FLOWER DAY COLLECTIONS
The Flower Day collections in old.
4 p.m., for the purpose of considering of the Tung Wah Hospitals realised applications for publicans' licences a total of $4,210.54 on Saturday. hotel keepers odjunct leences and This sum, is for short of the total of realauraht adjunct licences for the $8,500.02 collected by the Hospitals wear 1840-1941 under the Dutiable during their Flower. Day Inst. year, Commodities Ordinance, 1931.. but further donations are expected
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