Mr. Reilmond, Leader of the Irish Nationalists, said on July 2 tlmt over 120,000 men have gono from Ireland to the forces, and that with tho Irishmen in other lands who have enlisted the total contribution of Ireland is over 300,000 men.' It is the response that her history would lead 1 tho world to expect from Ireland, impoverished and rent with political faction as sho may he, to the call of justice and nationality, and in it (say 3 tho Manchester "Guardian") lios tho finest refutation of tho cardinal blunder of the Wilhelmstrasse. Over 71)000 Catholics have enlisted, and ovef 49,000 Protestants. But the most heartening featuro of the figures is that the flow of Irish recruits increases from : week to week.
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Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2547, 23 August 1915, Page 5
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