PEACEFULLY OR WITH BLOODSHED ?
SETTLEMENT OF THE IRISH QUESTION
STATEMENT BY THE CHIEF SECRETARY By Telegraph-Press Association- Copyright London, December 30. Mr. Edward Shortt (Chief Secretary for Ireland), in an interview, said:— 'The coming six months will decide whether the Irish question will be settled peacefully or with bloodshed. Ido not consider that the large Sinn Fein voto at the recent shows a demand for separation from England. I believe that. 60 or 70 per cent, of the Sinn Feiners can be persuaded to accept Home Rule."— Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. RELEASE OF IMPRISONED SINN FEINERS. ' London) December 31. The release of all. Sinn Feiners is expected immediately. Count Plunkett lias been set free.—Aus.-N.Z; Cable Assn. STATE OF SIEGE AT BELFAST PRISON • I • (Rec. January 1, 11.35 p.m.) London, December 31. An extraordinary situation developed at Belfast Prison on Monday. Sinn Feiners, by breaking tho staircases and erecting barricades, isolated themselves in one wing They claim to have several days' provisions, and are creating an uproar, singing, cheering, and playing'' tin whistles.' They ,hung out a banner constructed of bedcovers, ripped tho slates off the Toof of a large blook of buildings, and tore up the flooring. ' A military detachment is' encamped before tile prison.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn, IRISH EMIGRANTS TO AMERICA BIG EXODUS EXPECTED. ■ New York, December 31. The Kew-York "WqrldV London correspondent says it is expected that Irish emigration to the United ; States will increase greatly 'after the passport lations are;.witlidrawn. believed that Irish emigrants will exceed the prexrtir numbers.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. WOMEN'S SUFFRAGE BONFIRE . IN AMERICA NEW TACTICS TO "WORRY THE GOVERNMENT. , (Rec. January 1, 10.35 p.m.) Washington, December 31. The Women's Party has started a bonfire in front of t'he White House,-and intend to keep it. burning until a suffrage amendment Bill has been adopted by Congress.—Reuter. ' ESCAPED' 1 CRIMINALS CAPTURED 5 Sydney, January 1. , The two escapees from Bathurst Gaol were recaptured \vithout resistance twenty miles south 9f- the town.—Press Assn. ~ ' [The men who escaped were named Steiner and Leigh, boib. undergoing life sentences for imirder.l . i , , . 1 (Rec; January 2,. o:is li.m.j, ' Sydney, January 1. The captured men'had spent two years in pTeparing-'their escape from prison, borning through cement, raoia and cells with improvised tools—Press Assn. HERR FRITZ EBERT — : r ~7"-. NOTE ON GERMANY'S HARASSED , ■ , PREMIER'. ! (By Frederic William Wile, in the "Daily Mail.") Fritz Ebe.rt,' harness-maker, Heidel-. berger by birth, i 7 years old, ha§ suc : ceeued William von Holienzollern. If a republic emerges from the cauldron' that ie now: boiling over with such fury, it seems likely that' he will bo its first President. There is nothing in . JDbert's career to justify the assumption that a Red Plag Chancellorship has brought an anti-militarist to the Wilhelmstrasse..Fritz Ebert supported the war-unreserv-edly from its outset. He was one of the "Socialist" majority which cheered itself hoarse, in my, own hearing, in the Reichstag, on August 1, 1914, when Beth-mann-HoUweg proclaimed that "necessity knows no law," and that Germany was "haoking hop way through" Belgium in flagrant violation of international law. Ebert cast his vote on overy ocoasion for the 5000 million pounds of war credits which Germany used up in her baffled attempt to enslavp civilisation. • ■... . • ■ In December, 1915, when 20 anti-war members of tho Sooialist group in the Reichstag seceded from the party organisation, it was Eljert .who publicly rebuked them. He declared that it was the sacred duty of the united German nation to support the Government's "war of self-defence." Later on, as spokesman of the Reichstag group, Ebert introduced a fruitless resolution to excommunicato Haase, Liebkuecht, ledebour, Dittman, Br.rnstein, and the "other "Independents." It was not long afterwards that Ebert himself was elected to succeed Haase as chairman of the parliamentary "fraction." Ebert (whose name is pronounced Aybert) is' the son of a master tailor. He began life as a saddler's apprentice, identified himself in. his 'teens',with the Working Youths' Association—German Socialism's great training school—and at 21 was editor of the "Burger-Zeitung," the Socialist organ at Bremen: After a couple of years' service .as a trade Union secretary he was appointed to the Executive Committee of the Socialist national organisation, was elected to the Reichstag in 1912, and in 1913 bceame chairman of the party. Short and sturdy of build, Ebert is a man of forceful temperament, ■with undoubted talent for leadership and plenty of driving power. A swarthy complexion gives him the aspect of an Italian or Spaniard, an impression heightened by a mass of thick, blackish , hair, surmounting shaggy eyebrows, 1 ' and a thick moustache. His apparent sitpercession of Scheidemann, the Government's mid-war pet Socialist, is due to the fact that he is a man of action,, while Scheidemann is a man of words. ' German Social Democracy has fiendish satisfaction in, dethroning William 11. It has been his sworn enemy ever since, on the occasion of the late Herr Friqdrich Alfred von Krnpp's funeral in IPO2, the ex-Kaiser denounced Social Democracy as'vaterlanslosen. Gesellen (wretohes without a country). .Thi>y did not support the Hohenzollerns' war out of, any affection for that defunct dynasty. As the political representatives of the German working-classes, they gleefully made common cause with the militarists and industrialists who honed, in consequence of a short, sharp, and decisive campaign, to* enrich Germany economically beyond her wildest dreams. Fritz Ebert incarnates the spirit in which "the German people" accepted tho war.- _ His latest prc-Chnncellorship Reichstag utterance was a whine against peacO j terms that would cripple Geriiiany's power to resume her ruthless and rapacious designs oil world trade.
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