Manawatu Herald THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 21,1918. IRISH LOYALTY.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XL, Issue 1792, 21 February 1918, Page 2

Manawatu Herald THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 21,1918. IRISH LOYALTY.

A RECENT f-a(>)o informed us that disguised Hinn Feiners raided an aerodrome somewhere in County Cork, and aimed a revolver n 1 Ihe watchman while they stole all the papers and plans. Such acts are designed to assist the enemy, and at the same finm will prejudice the Home Rule cause.- Tim Irish FpLlowship Club, of Chicago, (he largest Irish organisation in Chicago, adopted in December a declaration of principles supporting" the Irish Parliamentary Party, and stating that any Irishman or organisation which seeks to embarrass any of the Allied Powers in its conduct of tJia w’jJF is committing an act of open hostility 1° ]hg United States. The declaration is address?,'] I*l Mf John Redmond. It was ahnounced at the same time that the club is forwarding the first instalment of 10,000 doihifv: towards ..the fund which is being collected on behalf of the Irish Parliamentary Party, Thg declaration will be submitted to all the Irish organisations throughout the country, and it is understood th.at it trill be ultimately fpr.warded to Ireland as a concrete expression of support in the war by people of Irish descent ip America, The declaration says, inter alia; “Any Irishman who tit this time tries to embarrass the conduct of the war by any of the European Powers Is'trying JP embarrass America. We must (ell our Irish brethren at home that they cannot look to America or Irish-Ameriea for any sympathy in any such policy. There is not a single honest and genuine Irish-American who does not stand behind the President and the policy of the American Government.’ Loyal os we haye been to the cause of Irish Idborty, we must tell the Irish that we wiH not, and j cannot, retain sympathy for an Ireland that makes war on our beloved i fisher so.ns.” ■' i