GERMANS IN IRELAND.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 1620, 5 October 1916, Page 4

GERMANS IN IRELAND.

11- is rather :i strange parallel of curious history lli;il Germany should have been involved in the recent rebellion in Ireland, for (lie only other hostile landing by way of Ireland known to modern history was made by Germans in 1487, whim Lambert Sinmel landed there with a force of 2,000 Germans. The Marl of Kildare crowned him King at Dublin that year, and at (he head of his German troops he crossed over to England, but me! defeat at Stoke. A subsequent uprising in .Ireland by Perkin Warbeek was also supported by the Marl of Kildare, but the Government of that day believed in conciliation and forgiveness to the point of stupidity. The. historian Proude says, in recounting the s( ory;— “The Irish rebels with their everready wit and (luent words, their show of blindness and pretence of simplicity, disarmed anger and dispersed calumny, and they returned on all occasions more trusted than ever to laugh at the folly which they had duped. “‘All Ireland cannot >vern this ear),' said a member of the King’s Council. “ •Then let the earl govern all Ireland,' replied the King. “lie was sent over, a convicted traitor —he returned a Knight of the Garter, Lord Deputy, and the representative of the Crown. Rebellion was a snccesful policy, and a lesson which corresponded so closely to the Irish temper was not forgotten. “ ‘What, thou fool,” said Sir Gerald Shanneson to a younger son of this nobleman thirty years later when he found him slow to Join the rebellion against Henry V'lll., ‘'What thou tool, thou shall la* the more esteemed for it. For what hadst thou if thy father had not alone so? What was he until he crowned a king, took Garth, the King's captain, prisoner, hanged his son, resisted I’oynings and all deputies; killed them of Dublin upon Axmantown Green; would sutler no man to rule here for the King but himself! Then the King regarded him, and made him deputy, and married thy mother to him, or else thou shouldsl never have had a foot of land, where now thou mays! dispend four hundred marks by the year.’ ” The London Post, in censuring the present Government for its blindness, says that when the rebels were caught in a traitorous correspondence with Charles V., the Emperor of Germany, they were pardoned. Not until the great rebellion of 15:]2-:55 had reduced Ireland to ruin did Henry awake to the necessity of strength, and by striking (error into the hearts of evildoers bring the rebellion to a (dose. It cites this historic episode to support the contention that the present troubles in Ireland are due |o a complacent and short-visioned Government which permitted matters to drift without any show of authority. The Post concludes that the only way (here can be a settlement of the Irish question is by a strong administration with no short cuts or compromises. A definite settlement has now been reached, and the Irish question will remain quiescent at least until one tear after the war.