DUBLIN'S STARVING CHILDREN.
» PROPOSAL TO SEND THEM TO ENGLAND, ROMAN CATHOLIC CLERGY OBJECT. Br Telegraph—Press Association-Copyright London, October 22. Tho Catholic authorities in Dublin are greatly alarmed at the proposal.to send a number of tho strikers' children to be tended in England, because they would possibly not be brought up ill tho Catholic faith. Despite an, injunction, by the Most Rev. I)r. Walsh, Catholic Archbishop of Dublin, against the dispatch of , tho children to England, on the ground that their faith would be endangered, fifty were about to leave, when priests intervened, and induced the majority to return homo. Women dragged the remainder from tho steamer. A DRAMATIC SCENE. (Rec. October 23, 11.55 p.m.) London, October 23. Mrs. Montefiore, who is managing the deportation scheme, had collected fifty boys and girls, in Dublin, bathed them, and dresscuthem in new clothes. Then tho mothers followed thefn to tho baths, and then notified the priests, who, in impassioned tones, protested. againßt tho children being sent to atheistic and Socialistic homes in England. Most of the children then left Mrs. Montefiore, shouting: "We won't bo English children." A number of the children wore hustled on board*Jho steamer, where the priests renewed their protests, and rescued; some of them. Fyially, fifteen children sailed. Larkin, the strike leader, speaking at Liberty Hall, urged tho parents to allow' their children to go.
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Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1888, 24 October 1913, Page 7
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226DUBLIN'S STARVING CHILDREN. Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1888, 24 October 1913, Page 7
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