Nebraska Newspapers

    THE SUNDAY BEE: OMAHA, SEPTEMBER 21. 1022.
Ffw Ir!h patriot have hld the degree of rr pect rul
aJmirution aecortleti Michael Collin, youiijf leader rrcent
ly !ain from ambush by an aiwain. And lew Irinhmeri, if
any, were bitUr M to tell the story of Erin'a idruifgle for
freedom than thN ardent patriot who threw himm-lf heurt
and i"ul Into the tank of working out Ireland' dcatlny.
The first two installment of his utory, told to a new,
paptr correspondent chortly before hi death, have ap.
pearetl in The Omaha Sunday IUe. In them we have
learned hom thinjf of the early youth of Collin, w hoe utory
ring o true that it cannot be doubted.
OuMandinir in the event of hi young: manhood i
the fact that he nacriflced an alluring opportunity to go to
America because he felt the call of aervico to hla countrv.
He never faltered In hi patriotism, Instilled while yet a boy,
up to the time the aahj'a bullet found it mark and he
died with the word. "Forgive them," on hi lip.
Hut for an English blunder, the Easter-week uprising
would have ended in ignominious failure, according to Col
lin and 1'rofessor Koin MacNeill. Denial that he fostered
the Easter uprising, but did everything in his power to pre.
vent i. wa the atartlin? statement Professor MacNeill
made to the newspaper correspondent.
I!ecaue England treated the uprising seriously, using
troop instead of Dublin police to quell it, the perpetrator
went to martyrs' death and Ireland's freedom was at last
in sight, according to MacNeill.
Touching on the Casement tragedy, Collins and Mac
Neill, while both admitting Casement did hi utmost to per
Kuade German otlicer to lead a rebellion, declare that fail
ing to secure thi aid he used every eirort to halt the up
rising. A sidelight upon the story is Arthur Griffith's credit
for the formation of Sinn Fein to William Kooncy, Griffith
being unwilling to take all the credit to himself. Griffith
denies both that Sinn Fein was pacifistic or that it wa
purely a political machine.
The asinine scheme of Erskino Childer to get England
t consent to a "hand oh" policy is described by Collins,
who went with him to a conference at which Winston
Churchill and Lord I'eatty were present. Childer proposed
that England free Ireland because "Ireland is not only a
source of dangi r to England, but from a military standpoint
is absolutely useless."
"This announcement was such ridiculous l.al.leiila.sll
that I felt liku wanting to gi't out of the room," said Col
linn later.
Deportation of Sinn Feinet s.the devotion of I.oland tor
De Vab ra and the Sinn Fein convention in October, l'.H7,
were described in the preceding chapter.
llut the most Mart ling Matemet.t of Collin-, appearing
at the clone of last Sunday' iiutaliiiicnt, was bis i-onT.V
tion of Lloyd George for blame in the IbitUlt gov t nnient'a
policy toward Ireland in the period of r.M7-l'.'Jl. "In
those day I.loyd George had n-i time f..r Ireland, hi whole
attention wa absorbed by he world war," saya Collin.
By HAYDEN TALBOT.
flupitliM, lull, Srm mk Aawtlraa I
SJ I USD At llii tune, l
injiy iinI Mjrji, thrre was
Mini h talk of applying the
f f itth C"iii npiion t 1. 1 Ireland,
and arrangements weir bung made
for triiiijiue in rirry posiible
WAV.
"Third -The arrest of tlir chief
!radei of unn fein. 1 here were
jutl miiii' half i')cii throughout
( tic country marked down for ar
rest who rcaped the net 'J hi,
however, rimt not he tal.en at
meaning llut the !mt Uioiic of thi?
movement wi gnnr. Ibe ixdili
:al firyatiiatiou wat continued,
notw illittaiidfug A II . r- toll, ami
'lir military ci gamation w con
tinued, always without iiitctler
rnrr, " I (if enemy irtivily ll 10 thi
period trally had not bon very
serious. Ami enemy nrtivtty after
What is now called the 'NVtrnun
(lot arrest' i mainly directed
toward the irr vptllinii of public
meeting, tracking down mil ar
reting public nnpnit, stopping
larar!, ilnlU, training, etc., of
milliliters.
"Fouith Toward the rnd of
the vear rame the armistice in the
world war, and with it the Knieral
election. Sinn fi'in rlciti- can
didate to fight in almost every
constituency throughout Ireland
and won a sweeping victor v at the
poll.
Raids Become
More Frequent
"Our political ti ;k ninety s tl
together loo rllieicnl ami t!:e i !.--lion
started oil with rur having SS
qnoppo-rd returns. Many of the
hinn fein candidate were men who
were in jail, or rattier interned, and
it must he admitted that the name
ol those candidates made an appeal
in addition (0 the political appeal,
"It will be remembered that sinn
fcin sent representative to London
at the time of President Wilson's
visit to lay a memorandum on the
Irish case before him.
"l'aralleling our political victor
ies were increasing repressions by
Ihe British government, although
at first neither aggression nor op
pression was more than a sugges
tion of what was to come.
"During that yenr England pro
clained Dail Kireann. the Irish re
puMiean party, Cumman m Ilann,
the Gaelic league and the Gaelic
Athletic association illegal bodies.
Civil courts were for the most part
dispensed with, being replaced by
courts-martial. For trivial offenses
severe sentences were inflicted,
"i'ossession of a card of mem
ber sluft in shin fein earned a pen
alty of six months' to two years,
imprisonment. Kaids by armed
bands ol police and soldiers began
to become more frequent.
"(iraduallv it became apparent
that Kiiglaiid bad r vi ii "m trying
to rule Ireland with ;i ig less
than force.
Irish Crow
More United
"The inevitable reSH: ol this
policy as indeed must have been
anticipated by Whitehall was the
driving of the Irish people to meet
desperate methods with desperate
remedies. The more extreme the
British methods became, the more
united our people grew.
"From time immemorial England
had always maintained in Ireland
one of the greatest and most effi
cient secret services in the world
a service which had for its corner
stone the historic, unhappy fact
about the Irish people of the pres
ence in every generation of a small
minority ready to sell their coun
try for English gold. Without the
aid of these traitors, almost entirely
Rogue's Corner boys, ne'er do
wells, ragged, penniless and men
tally dwarfed. England's secret
service in Ireland would have been
a far less potent factor.
"A it was, there were spies in
every street Irish spies furtively
obtaining information that would
damn brother Irishmen. In those
ilav there were few public houses
in 'Dublin that did not shelter after
nightfall a llritish secret service
operative in the midst of a group
of corner boys fr whom he would
buy quantities of strong liquor, fiv
the pavment of a tew shillings cash
and liberally plvmg them with
drink, the operative never failed to
obtain from the miserable outcasts
the information he desired.
"In this wv, the total number of
Rntisli operative r presented wn
probably a U'th of the aciuil tul
of the spy organijation. I'very
strrrt, every city, w an open bi'k
to the Frut'lish asents,
"Ihe efforts ol Dublin Ctl t"
mAe tt ;' orgin'rt on i com
P'cre si p,ib'e did not f"d with
un Irrw.tiM fat!ini!fmlnrm'
in Is g: Her p.sniion wet travhej.
ImUiKM this IHd ' 'r'.
hoivtver
Troiton (ht
Just lhtrti
"P it, ?Uf alt, Putlun ! Ii
fcll'l an HH( ! t !SiHill,t
r-i"tiiJ ' a tH,.uart t fouti.lt
a I tS svian I ! o !s i tf
Bun H in t ft liv."-n i.t
i I fi' tSma' e' 'ti. n
p. m t"-s ("aii.f 1 1 :. i f.
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CM M i t H III
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nu t tiai4 4 t' fiwVt.in
Sister of Casement
at Grave of Collins
t. S
M 11. w
ir
Mrs. Newman, sister of Sir
Roger Casement, hanged in Lon
don for war treason against Eng
land, placing wreath on grave of
Michael Collins.
that the Irish leaders had to solve,
M iehacl Collins said :
"The Kntdish secret service in
Ireland, w'ith its limitless supplies
of money, had been unquestionably
able to reach men of influence and
position within our own organiza
tion. Most of these met their just
deserts down through all the years.
When the Fenian leader who be
trayed his comrades who commit
ted the I'hoenix Park killings
thought himself for all time immune
from Irish vengeance, he suddenly
found the long arm of the Irish re
publican brotherhood could reach
out to the furthermost ends of the
earth and mete justice in tlir name
of Ireland.
Shot by Or" of
Urol her he. I
"When the English sbio that car
ried him away with 10,000 pounds
of English money as his reward for
delivering up his colleagues was
taken into a South African port he
was shot dead by one of the broth
erhood traveling on the same ship.
Thus every Irish youth for many
generations knew in a general way
of England's spy system and how
it was tremendously strengthened
by renegade Irishmen.
"But up to the end of 1918 we
had done little to, combat it. Grif
fith had won a vast majority of the
best clement in all parts of Ire
land to his way of thinking, and
the sinn fein policy of moderation
urged by him for 13 years with
but little success until then
seemed to many the best course for
Ireland to pursue.
"The words 'sinn fein have been
generally misinterpreted to mean
'ourselves alone' a mistake which
Griffith never took occasion to cor
rect. "While that is the literal trans
lation of the Gaelic, it. isn't the real
meaning of the phrase. To one
conversant with the ancient Irish
language, 'sinn fein' means 'self
reliance' obviously a very different
thing.
"Unhappily, the Irish people
even yet have learned little of self
reliance. Today they depend too
much upon a few leaders.
Offers A'o
Apologies
"What else tan be expected
alter 700 years ot subjection? But
the Irish people must acquire sell
reliance and put nn end for all time
to the present custom oi waiting
for a superman to head them into
the possession of full freedom
"Other nation must understand
the state of mind of the aveta e
Irishman which nuke this a land
where public opinion are privately
expressed. lor many hundred
i vrar this wa the only way hi
which opinion could be exrrsed,
It it tnll the ci in I'M with
the impormil ditierrnre that th
Irish prup'e weie beginning to
awalrn fo the truth.
The trnimph of the sinn Mr
raiihdatr Wit proo! ptmliv,"
a.M-4 Ciul-'. "that !' pcapl
were pr'iufed l ivpt the
;un. r i S i imolted in teii fr!i-aru-e.
We . intffprf ted the over
V!uui4 iif they t l.t i
I (hi win y -but Uii'o luiulfty w
tii.t nut tu'iy pprvis' their imhiN
Hy o ki b.i t trn!a' their
w ,!'rr iiH rr-ui v t term
"f mnukmW tiievt that
fit I it ml t'n.r t p!Hl Ctil tVt
w ty in or M t rve !'! r,v
t. rn r . t !
Ili.nl be m l ' I il tS
,. the iu. r t-
,.isl
W U!ti 4 .(,in,l tSe
tr tt -' ' tlt' w l
, n At, life t U'l.
V ts4i Id Main HI f hJ s
.IkI up . 1 iV f
..uat t I nl , sr Mm
ro"r, IvwU H astiy tv
adopt mora extreme measures than
would have been the case had we
hs J the active support of the whole
people.
'I am malting no apologies for
what we did in thoc succeeding
ear I hope merely to explain
Ihe necrs'ity wlmh drove u.
"Tin net result of what we ac
complished it the treaty a hundred
fold greater result than iiiuuv
among t us at Ihe end of IVIX
would have dared to prophesy that
our new policy would win u.
"That policy wa based on the
recognition id two of ibe nio-t
urKent problem with whih we
were fatfd at th.it time- beating
the l'nglih sririi terviie until it
v. as powerless. And cleaning our
own house until Ibe List traitorous
Irishman li.nl hern identified and
fittingly dealt with.
"It wa a job of herculean pro
portion, but until and unless it
wa done thoroughly, freedom
could never come to Ireland.
"Within the inner circles of Ira
i there wa not unanimity of opinion
that the new policy was wise men
like llruglia and Stark cherished
the deliiion that we rould by force
alone drive the English armv out
of Ireland, having no faith in Irish
men's ability to outwit F.nglish
brain.
System Shown
First Time
"Perhaps it was because I, more
than any one else, disputed this ad
mission of inferiority, that it wa
upon mv shoulders the heavy task,
with its twofold problem, wa laid,"
Collin concluded.
Cn the following afternoon, in
hi private dining ropm at the Sol
bourne hotel, where I was his
luncheon Riiest, Collins told me the
inside story of his striking terror
into Ihe hearts of Ihe Black and
Tans.
For the first time, to my knowl
edge. Michael Collins, in bis
graphic story to me, has let
the world know the methods he
employed in wrecking the British
spy system in Ireland. Here is
the story a Tie told it:
"The English secret service in
Ireland and other countries has
broken every movement ever at
tempted by Irishmen to make Ire
land an independent nation. The
espionage by the staff of the Brit
ish forces of occupation in Ireland
operating from headquarters, Dub.
lin castle, was n model to which
England had every right to point
with pride.
"It was a costly organization to
maintain. The annual tolal in pre
war days was approximately 250,
000, when thirre was little or no
talk of an Irish revolutionary
movement.
"Following the outbreak of the
world war, even before the Faster
week rising, (he cost of administer
ing the spy system, it has been
reckoned has totaled 1,000,000 a
year. From lu16 countless millions
were spent. The secret service
money was to be had almost for
raising an eyebrow.
"I always find comfort in the
thought that much of this reckless
buying of information brought cold
comfort to Dublin castle when it
was discovered that the 'informa
tion' ivas nothing more than the
figment of a patriotic Irishman's
imagination.
England Sends
Black and Tans
"But with the coming of the
black and tans in W) Ibis profit
able form of romancing w as quickly
robbed of its appeal . The black
and tans, evidencing dislike
of being victimized, by torture
eventually would murder their vic
timizes. "The coming of the black and
tans was England's immediate and
direct answer to our establishing
our own intelligence staff, whereof,
I had been appointed chief. Be
fore we could turn the attention of
the black and tans, however, we
had to create our own organisa
tion, then use it to clean out Eng
land's spies from Ireland.
"This alone was no easy t . !c.
but before it wa finished there
were left in Ireland only nien wh
wholeheartedly were prepared tj
give their live for Ireland. The
determination wa madi; to drive
against weathercock politicians, ir
respontilile and other ci a simi
lar kind whose presence in Ire
land, while peihapt not daniterou
wa d.tincltv drtriimiia vto
morale, A all tt.r d irm? the
proves of ctranin our own tone.
I rvnstantly had to fight the
iritsjnii.sm of I'athal PiUiha.
Kerry Man on
Staff Tthd
"l rivr t ai,i aj n 1 1 e
i'Wr4 !f ' llwvr, in d.
';! tJ l !.-;, il it t ..t
''at more lluii ixiii be pro tt
l';'it't liuappr.vtal cl me a. tiy
I 'IH '.I tit" i b'.M I n f ti,.
iff ot ,!.-" m i a i r "rvpl t
iU r l i-l
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toi . I t vr tii mi i.
t'l I til .'l ftt t ! '
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i vita.tii :t a t'it .
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Where Funeral Services
Held for Irish Martyr
In Dublin cathedral,
where funeral services
for Michael Collins
were read. Bishop of
Killaloe officiated.
V
"N'ow the time had come to
turn our attention to the main
part of the job smashing the
English secret service.
"My final , goal was not to be
reached by putting it out of exist
ence I meant to replace it by a
better and Irish aecret service. The
way to do this was obvious. It
fell, naturally, into two main parts
making it unhealthy for Irishmen
to betray their countrymen and
making it deadly for Englishmen to
exploit them.
System Loses
Efficiency
"It took six months to accom
plish the first part which was
actually the important part and
only a month more to disrupt the
morale of the English secret serv
ice to a point whereat its efficiency
ceased to be the proud thing it had
always been.
"To Fnglishmen who knew the
meaning of the appellation of the
political section of the 'G' division
of the secret service, it stood for,
everything that was finest and
most admirable in the whole range
of the British empire's organiza
tions. To gain admission to 'G'
division was the dream of all se
cret service operatives.
"For the most part, the person
nel of this unquestionably brave
outfit commanded my admiration.
But, as I shall have occasion to
point out more than once before I
finish this tale, their bravery fre
quently outdistanced their judg
ment. Our experience leads me
to suggest it is wiser that thoss
who have the placing of men in
positions in which bravery and
judgment are equal requirement
to choose clever cowards rather
than stupid heroes.
English Spies
Identified
"Within a hort time n.lti we
bad convinced Irish traitor ih.it it
was best they sever eoiuu i turn
willt lhihliit cattle, our own oprt.
(ivi-t identified of the hihet
phied, nioit efficient l inilisli pi .
It wa mv policy t acquaint thi
ti-xtet ith th tut that we knew
tbeiu and bd them under coi'vtant
turvnUjme.
"ti rdr to remove any doubt
in tbtir mind I lu-l them tut.
I'ubnt With lfiwMHi ttpoitt
Cl Ihtif own aitiv.Het i thf pie
if I I f JI hmir, b'f ir t tf.it
in tinttion,
"lb ttlfff wLntAlh iHcv
b'lped ta fediit Iri.biiifii . a
tuft 1 aSieet trttdr i. ft
a in ori ii '.i t r . ui k.
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T Sr.. '-r
formation that was responsible for
the reputation I began to. acquire
as a daredevil.
"For instance, one day it was
told me that the black and tans
had discovered the house at which
I was in the habit of lunching every
other Thursday. My informant
learned they planned to watch the
house the next Thursday and have
a large force ready to raid it at
one minute alter noon, the hour I .
always entered it.
"Therefore, exactly at noon on
Thursday I rode a bicycle down
the street, stopped in trout of Ihe
watched house and entered
through the basement, carrying the
bicycle with me. Within one min
ute the black and tans came rush
ing from jill directions and burst
into the house. Thus I discovered
the information was accurate and
my informant trustworthy.
"It wasn't quite as foolhardy as
it sounds because a perfect escape
had bem prearranged, a tunnel
having been dug under the back
yard into a cellar abutting the
house through which I was able
to run with my bicycle and be on
my way through the heart of Dub
lin a few minutes later.
Collins Has
Narrow Escapes
"But of course to make this test
I had to go under the scrutiny of
perhaps two score black and tans.
Ju this connection let me refle
rumors that I resorted to disguises.
1 never did. 1 carried convincing
paper, it is true, that established
my identity as altogether different
to my own. More than once I was
held up and searched by black and
t.tns. But disguise was uniietes
tary and foolish,"
Regarding the stories told of hi
epiits, Micharl Collins, in his
revelation lo me, cited many in
st.iute of his narrow escapes when
riptnre teemed ahnosl trrtain.
After tellinu bow be oiganued a
vcrrl siivitt- system oj Irnbitirn,
be in i'ii :
"One m. i.i in whirh perhaps ie-ii-urd
greater publicity Ouu any
other - In n Jt-iUsli .,!,u-rt tir
loiin.le 1 1 rntirr square in whit l
was titujic ! ibe Maruion House in
whiih ,s,, hfin frn til g. tut
lfii !;.(.. it.! in rvtrs w.iv in-44.
iliai!e.
Warned by
Bodyguard
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run t' the Mantitin bouif. He
burtt 111 on ti like a cyclone find
announced the imprinting raid. The
oilier rushed out the back way
and made good their rteape, but I
remained behind to safeguard n
valuable dormiitiit wlmli we bad
been studying and whichwe
couldn't just then afford 10 destroy.
"Two minutes later the bl.u k ami
tans, in armored cars and af mt,
came rushing Irom all directions
and quickly formrd a cordon tii.t
completely encircled ut, The lord
mayor hurried in, demanding 10
know what I could do to avoid
capture
' It wat ra-y enough requiring
the tlieels of two beds from the,,
upper part of the Mansion bouse.
With these was m.iilr a rope which
O'Reilly lowered down the chim
ney from I lie roof to Ihe roun I
room and up fhe chimney I
climbed.
Collins Hides
in Chimney
"When the black and tans came
twarmiti in the lord mayor de
nounced iheir intrusion as unwa--rant.ible,
and Joe got buy with
a big geiiniride sprayer which in
advertently be pointed most of the
time at the immaculate intruder.
"For four hours they searched
tho liouc everything in it, except
the rbimnev of the round room.
"It seei.'i d a v astc of time, !
asmnch a a hot lire was burning
m the !, replace. I lit that fic,
tl inbing Ibe sheet rope with i'.S
first snmke,
"Half way up the chimney wa
the flue of a fireplace on the sec
ond floor. Climbing just above
this flue, I managed lo git out of
my clothes and stop the chimney
with them, smoke then exiting
through the flue into the room into
which O'Reilly had gone and open
ed all windows to create a draft.
"Above the bundle of clothes,
which effectually blocked the
chimney, there wa no smoke lo
amount to anything, llut a night
came on I was a chilly man in the
nude.
"Meanwhile, however, the black
and tans showed no intention of
leaving the house until they found
me.
"O'Reilly, whom the lord mayor
had identified as one of his clean
ers, started away on a bicycle to
get supper and was allowed to pas
through the cordon on the strength
of the lord mayor's word.
Woian of
Middle Age
THE critical stage of a
woman's life usually
comes between the years cf
45 and 55, and is often beset
with annnoying symptoms
such as nervousness irrita
' ability, melancholia, heat
flashes which produce head
ache and dizziness, and a
sense of suffocation. Guard
your health carefully, for
if this period be passed
over safely, many years
of perfect health
may be enjoyed.
Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound is especially adapted
to help women through this crisis. It exercises a restorative in
fluence, tones and strengthens the system, and assists nature in
the long weeks and months covering this period. It is prepared
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Denver. Obi "I bay tak. n I.vd a
K, I'liikham t Vrgrtabli t'l.iiip. Mh'l
and 1 can imt tell i lbi (.'ot'd It litt
ilnna me. It it gio. fur toursf and i.' I
and I aU.ii ke t a iU t.i it m il..
b"iit, fir I am at that tunn t Inn
when it t tllt fur it, My liu'tinl imi i. ir
ad, ill tlin 'fl and iMI.t, ".m ,tiil
ttki'it rtrrytliilifc" tun tail think "I, ttosy t
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Lydia E. Pinkliam's
1 WXeiA H.HNisMAM MIOICINC CO. LYNN. M4SI.
Leading Fighter in
. Irish Free State Army
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Commandant 'General Tom Oi
lmen is one of leading fighters in
Irish free state army,
"Within an hour be returned and
resumed bis floor scrubbing.
"Half an hour later, when it was
quite dark, a black and tan officer
hurried down the steps to the front
entrance of the Mansion House
and made big way quickly past the
British troops stationed three feet
apart.
"It was the only time I ever
wore a British uniform and the
only time I ever resorted to even
partial disguise.
"Where ami how O'Reilly pro
cured it, I never asked. It was
enough that he had the presence of
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snl ir i nil it it nit In In, hiiI
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. i.ir t-ihi ncni'it witli a i".it,in
wloi h is.Mm. . ii (,, ,i,y u,
e'llv 11I1U t ' lo up part n( t'i lone, t It n
I uat !tir lit a fritnd, Mit. Sm.lli,
ti liy fid P I'liis'imt't Vi'.t!la
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t '.ins, :s t:. itu it, Mt-r.j. !,., i :
unn I I.) g i and i' 1 il, don il under
Ins "a 11 1 lot Ins mil g. t it to me.
"Ihe totdoil .lirroiimli I the
M.insioii House all night, and wa
null Wilhdiawu mIh 11 th'' buiileis
Ini.il'y were luinuiiel thai their
infotinalioii had been i.i!-' Mean
time, llisbiileli anxiolis 'o sell in
l.iimatiou to Iltiblin t ast'e learned
that whenever Ibey did so It Vtll
knoH 11 lo ut in 1 iii 'Ii.it' Iv.
aiding Mails
Another Method
lii,i lii..!,y tin big. ut to nil it
rlut tic very ld.uk and tan Id
wh'iiu they ol, tti tor 111.1t i il was
..lie ol our agent wlihin tlur
cistli II they bad doubts about
it we saw to it that 'hey disap
peared -our freeing them after
rapture and after proving the
t r 11 1 ii to them accomplishing iur.
purpose.
"From then on they took paina
to acquaint others who were con
sidering betraying lit thai in all
probability they would offer in
formation lo one of our men.
"Another one of our method
wa raiding the mails, a most of
the Information oflrred lo Dublin
Castle was sent by post but al
ways with Ibe name and address
of the sender for staled purpose
of reward.
Every Phone
Message Tapped
"We hail an unofiicial nnsoi 1
who returned all except govern'
nient mad and would-be inform
ants' letters. The latter we also
returned to the seader, generally
with a wholesome lecture suffi
cient lo persuade I hem that a rep
etition rd the uftrnse would be in
advisable. "Almost 50 per rent ci the
telegraphists in Ireland were either
active members or identified with
our Intelligence stalf. Through
the telegraphists we got the code,
which was changed twice a day
bv Dublin castle thus simplifying
the work of the censor handling
government messages.
"According to admission made
freely by Dublin castle at this time,
not one telephone message was re
ceived that was not tapped and
heard by us. This may be exagger
ationthough I am inclined to
think not. Our corps of intelbgent
linemen would have resented any
doubt of the accuracy of this
statement."
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