IRELAND STUNNED !
DY BRITISH COUP
IN GERMAN PLOT
Nationalists See Government's
Sinn Fein Deportations as
Attempt to Discredit Erin
Before World.
London, May 21. Total absence of
excitement in Dublin is reported in all
dispatches from the Irish capital de
spite the Sinn Fein arrests. There are
no outward indications that anything
has happened, happening, or is about
to happen outside Ireland's ordinary
daily routine.
The Whitmopday holiday passed in
the customary ( manner. A corre
spondent of the Dail Mail says the
calm is sensational. He adds:
' "But appearances are deceptive.
Dublin is not Ireland. The constitu
tional nationalists one Renerally meets
here are not representative of the wild
hot-bloods who have Riven strength
to the Sinn ' Fein. Moreover, the
whole' country evidently is staggered
by the suddenness of the government's
action." - ,
Meanwhile everyone is awaiting
production of jhe proof of a Germanl
plot, ii is reported irom several
sources, however, that.-the govern
ment has jio present intention of
publicly arraigning: those under ar
rest, who will be merely interned.
It is also asserted that conscrip
tion has not been abandoned, but that
it is held in abeyance, pending devej-
apments.
Wouid Discredit Ireland.
Publin, May 21. A resolution de
nouncing the Sinn Fein deportations
is an attempt to discredit and disrupt
Ireland's united resistance to con
scription and 'to prejudice Ireland's
case in the eyes of friendly countries
has been passed by the anti-conscription
conference.
An official statement, signed, among
othfts, by John Dillon and Joseph
Devlin, the, Irish nationalist leaders,
-was issued. It insists on the right of
Irishmen to be arraigned in their own
country and declares that an attempt
was being made to poison the mind of
the English .people against the pris
oners. - '' ' '
War Department Takes
Over Soldier Mail Delivery
Washington, May 21. Delivery of
mail to and its collection from the
American txpe ditionary forces has
been taken over by the Wfh depart
ment. , ' v
Postmashff 'General Burleson said
the Postoffice department' had in
, sisted on the army conducting its own
mail service in France because of the
refusal of the military authorities
charged with -the conduct reopera
tions there to. disclose to thepostal
authorities the location and move
ments of troops.
Mail for the troops overseas will be
Jelivered by the FostofTice department
to army authorities at the ports f
embarkation in the United States and
that from the. soldiers abroad will be
received by the Postoffice department
at port in France far its dispatch to
America. "... .t - w.
Grand Central Palace
To:Hold Allies' Exhibits
New York, May 21. Announcement
was made here tonight that Alfred I.
Duont of -Wilmington, Del., and
New York,1 had purchased for the in
terests of which he is the head Grand
Central Palace, the largest exhibition
building in the tity.
It is understood that the greater
part of the building would be devoted
to permanent 'exhibition purposes to
stimulate. trade between the United
States and the governments associated
, with It in the war and with other
comitries of -Europe, Latin America
and the far east.
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CHAPTER IV.
Training the Boy.
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It was a fitting place to train men
for war, Bedford, where John was
with his ' regiment, and where his
mother and I went to see him so soon
as we could after Christmas. It is in
the British midlands, but before the
factory towns begin. It is a pleasant,
smiling country, farming country,
mostly, with good roads, and fields
that gave the boys chances to learn
the work of digging trenches aye,
and living in them afterward.
Bedford is one of the great school
towns of England. Low, rolling hills
lie about it; the River Ouse, a wee
quiet stream, runs through it. School
ing must be in the air of Bedford!
Three great schools for boys are
there, and two for girls. And liberty
is in the of Bedford, too, I think I
John Bunyan was born two miles
from Bedford and his old house still
stands in Elstow, a little village of
old houses and great mks. And it
was in Bedford jail thatBunyan was
imprisoned because he would fight
for the freedom of his own soul.
John was waiting to greet us, and
he looked great. He had two stars
now where he had one before he
had been promoted to first lieutenant
There were curious changes in the
laddie, I remembered. He was bigger,
I thought, and he looked older and
graver. But that I could not wonder
at. He had a great responsibility. The
lives of othfcr men had been entrusted
to him and Johil was not the man to
take a responsibility Jiketthat lightly.
I saw him the fjrst day I was at
Bedford leading some of his men in
a practice charge. Big, braw laddies
they were all. in , their kilts. He ran
ahead of them, smiling as he saw me
watching them, .but turning back to
cheer them on ' if he thought they
were not fast enough.' I could see as
L-watched him that he had caught the
habit of command. He 'was (.gaing to
be, a good officer. It was a, proud
thought for me, and'agam 'I jwas re
joiced that it was such a son that I
was able to offer to my country.
They were kept busy at that train
ing camp. Men were, needed sore in
France. Recruits were going over
every day. What the retreat from
Motis and the battle of the Marnc
had left of that first heroic expedi
tionary force the first battle of Ypres
had come close to wiping out. In the
Ypres salient our.men out there were
hanging on like grim death. There
was no time to spare at Bedford,
whfcre men. were, being made ready
as quickly as .they might to take their
turn in the trenches..
. But there was a little, time when
John and I could talk. .-:,
" What do you need most, sonr i
asked him.
"Men!" he cried. "Men, dad, men I"
They're coming- in quickly. Oh,
Britain has answered nobly to the call.
But they're not coming in fast
enough. We must have more men
more menl"
I had thought when I asked my
question of something John might be
needing for himself, or for his men,
mayhap. But when he answered me
so I said nothing. I only began to
think. I wanted to go myself. But
knew they would not have me yet
awhile, at any rate. And still I felt
that I must do something. I could not
rest idle while all around me men
were giving themselves and all they
had and were.
Everywhere I heard the same cry
that John had raised:
"Men! Give us menl"
It came from Lord Kitchener. It
came from the men in command in
France and Belgium that little strip
of Belgium the Hun had not been
able to conquer. It came from every
broken, maimed man who came back
home to Britain to be patched up that
he might go out again. There were
scores of thousands of men in- Britain
kilu . bull'.
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Experiences on Ae Urestevt
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who needed only the Iast quick shove
to send them across the line of enlist
ment. And after I had thought a
while I hit upon a plan.
"What stirs a man's fighting spirit
quicker or better than the right sort
of music?" I asked myself. "And what
sort of music does it best of all?"
There can be only one answer to
that last question! And so I organ
ized my recruiting band, thatwas to
be famous alj over Britain before so
very long. I gathered 14 of the best
pipers and drummers I could find in
all Scotland. I equipped them, gave
them the Highland uniform, and sent
them out, to travel over Britain skirl
ing and drumming the wail of war
through the length and breadth of the
land. They were to go everywhere,
carrying the shrieking of the pipes
into the highways and 'the byways,
and so they did. And I paid the bills.
That was the first of many recruit
ing bands that toured Britain. Be
cause it was the first and because of
the way the pipers skirled out the old
hill melodies and songs of Scotland,
enormous crowds followed my band.
And it led them straight to recruiting
stations. There was a swing and a
sway about those old tunes that the
young fellows couldn't resist.
The pipers would begin to swirl and
the drums to beat in a square, maybe,
or near the railway station. And
every time the skirling of the pipes
would bring the crowd. Then the
pipers would march, when the crowd
was big enough, and lead the -way
always to the recruiting place. And
once they were there the young fel
lows who weren't "quite ready to de
cide" and the others who were just
plain slackers, willing to let better
men die for them, found it mighty
hard to keep from going on the wee
rest of the way that the pipers had
left them to make alone!
' It was wonderful' work my band
did, and when the returns came to
me I folt like the Tied riper! Yes I
did, indeed.
I did not travel with my band. That
would have been a waste of effort.
There was work for both of us to
do, separately. I was booked for a
tour of Britain and everywhere. I
went I spoke, and urged the young
men to enlist. I made .as many
speeches as I could, in every town
and city that I visited, and I made
special trips to many. I thought, and
there were those who agreed with
me. that I could, it might be. reach
audiences another speaker, better
trained, no doubt, in this sort of work,
would not touch.
, So there was I, without official
standing, going about, urging every
man who could to don khaki. I
talked wherever and whenever I could
get an audience together, and I began
then the habit of making speeches
in the theaters, after my perform
ances, that I have not yet given up.
I talked thus to the young men.
"If you don't do your duty now,"
I told them, "you may live to be old
men. But even- if you do. you will
regret it! Yours will.be a sorrowful
old nee. In the years to come,, may
hap, there's be a wee grandchild nes
tling on your knee that II circle its
little arms about your neck and look
into your wrinkled face and ask you
"'How old are you, grandpa?
You re a very old man.
"How will vou answer that bairn's
question? So I asked the young men
And then. I answered for them: "I
don't know how old I am. but I am so
old that I can remember the great
war."
."And then" I told them, the young
men who were wavering and then
will rome the question that you will
always have to dread when you have
won through to the old age that may
be yours in safety if you shirk now.
For the bairn will ask you, straight-
OiAiiA, t.ADitii)a,. LiAi'
eFigtttztg J?pont-
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way, 'Did you fight in the great war,
grandpa? What did you do?
"God help th man. i tola tnem,
"who cannot hand it down as a heri
tage to his children and his children's
children that he fought in the great
war!"
I must have impressed many a
brave lad who wanted only a bit of
resolution to make him do his duty.
They tell me that I and my band to
gether influenced more than 12,000
men to join the colors; they give me
credit for that many, in one way and
another. I am proud of that. But I
am prouder still of the way the boys
who enlisted upon my urging feel.
Never one has upbraided me; never a
one has told me he was sorry he had
heard me and been led to ko.
It is far otherwise. The laddies
who went because of me called me
their godfather, many of them!
Many's the letter I have had from
them; many the one who has greeted
me as I was passing through a hos
pital, or, long afterward, when I made
my first tour in France, behind the
front line trenches. Many letters,
did I say? I have had hundreds
thousands! And not so much as a
word of regret in any one of them.
It was not only in Britain that I
influenced enlistments. I preached
the cause of the empire in Canada
later. And here is a bit of verse that
a Canadian sergean" sent to me. He
dedicated it to me, indeed, and I am
proud and glad that he did:
"ONE OF" THE BOYS' WHO WENT."
Say. hr now, Male,
Don't you figure It's sreat.
To think when this war 1g all over:
When we're ' through with this mud.
And apllllnir o' blood.
And we're ahlupcd hack again to old
Pnver.
When they've paid us our tin.
And we've blown the lot In,
And our last ponny l spent;
We'll atlll have a' thought
If It'i all that we've cot
I'm one of the boya who went:
And perhapa later on
When your wild days are gone,
You 11 be nettling; down for life.
Tou've a girl In your eye I
you 11 ask bye. and hye
To ahare up with you as your wife.
When a few years have flown, -
And you've kids of your own,
And you're feeling quite snug and con
tent; "
It'll make your heart glad
When they hoast of th"lr dad
Aa one of the boya who went!
There was much work for me to do
beside my share in the campaign to
increase enlistments. Every day now
the wards of the hospitals were filling
up. Men suffering from frightful
wounds came back to be mended and
made as near whole as might be. And
among them there was work for me, if
ever the world held wjork for any
man.
I did not wait to begin mv work
in the hospitals. Everywhere I went
where there were wounded men I
sang for those who were strong
enough to be allowed to listen, and
told them stories and did all I could
to cheer them up. It was heartrend
ing work oftentimes. There were
dour sights, dreadful sights in those
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hospitals. There vere wounds the
memory of which robbed me of sleep.
There were men doomed to blindness
for the rest of their lives.
But over all there was a spirit that
never lagged or faltered, and that
strengthened me when I thought some
sight was more than I could bear. It
was the spirit of the British soldier,
triumphant over suffering and cruel
disfigurement, with his inevitable an
swer to any question as to how he
was getting on. I never heard that
answer varied when a man could
speak at all. Always it was the same.
Two words were enough.
"All right!"
(Continued Tomorrow.)
Seize Tablecloths and Napkins.
London. May 21. All washable
table cloths and naokins remaining
A Most Opportune Sale of
New White Italian
Trimmed
AS WHITE MILAN hats
this sale Wednesday is
The assortment is varied and one may find most any
Specially priced Wednesday, at $5.00.
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Ateotat 22 Cents Per GaSlom !
Huns FaH '. Losses to. ;
Placate Common People
With the American Army in
France, May 21. According to in
formation obtained from a captured
German officer, the published
monthly figures of German aerial
losses are intended merely for the
people at home and for neutrals,
and are not accepted by German
aviators.
As an illustration of the German
methods, it is learned that a ma
chine shot down within the Ger
man lines, of which even only
parts are salvaged, is not counted
as a loss.
unsold in shops throughout Jermany
have been commandeered by the im
perial clothing office, according to
German papers.
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Seven men have been notified" tiy'?j
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Wednesday at 2 "o'clock to re'teive
orders to entrain for Camp Funstori.
They have been called in regular or
der, and will replace men who were
rrreeted at the camD.
They are ..Louis Katz, 5038 .South .
Twenty-fifth street; Patrick Meehan,
Chicago; William ?. Mullen, 5428,';
South Twenty-second street; Rycc
Georgevich, Charles' City, la.; Thomas
Runowicz, 4308 South Thirty-seventh
street; Feter Jjziewietin, 441 soutr.
Thirtv-fourth street, and William
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