IRELAND'S SPLENDID LOYALTY

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 8, Issue 148, 26 June 1916, Page 3

IRELAND'S SPLENDID LOYALTY

! GERMAN BRIBES RESISTED i I A glowing tribute to the splendid | loyalty of Ireland has been paid in an. | interview with a representative of the y New York Times by Miss Flora O'Gorman, wife of the O'Gorman of County Clare :vho has been serving at the front as a Red Cross nurse since the begini ning of the war, and who is now in | New York to raise funds for the mill- '! tary hospitals in France. I 'The few recalcitrant Irishmen here j who know nothing about it' said Mrs O'Gorman, 'try to give the impression . that Ireland is not loyal. I, who live ! in Ireland, and do know about it tell j you that Ireland is 1 loyal and will dc I her full share to help England and France win this war, I thought possibly someone would ask me so before leavi ing France I got my figures from my husband, the O'Gorman of County i Clare, who is a colonel and staff officer : of the British Army now at the front. There are said to be about 150,000 Irish soldiers now in the field and , about as many more have been recruitjo, j DESPISED TRAITORS IN IRELAND I "Some thousands of Irish have i been taken as prisoners of war, and to each of them the Germans have offered freedom if he would renounce England and become a German soldier They too seem to have the same mis- ' taken idea that Ireland is not loyal. i Well, of the thousands of Irish soldiers ' who have had the chance to buy freedom by treason only an insignificant ) number have availed themselves of it. j I know that. I also learn, from a GerJ man officer whom I happened to know i befcre the war and have since seen as a prisoner, that the most despised J pecpe in Berlin are hose Irish traitors with the green harps on their German I uniforms. There is no chance for them to get to the front, the German officer j I told me,- because nobody trusts them. 'My husband has served in the B'riiish Army for thirty-two years, and for twenty of those years I have been with •him in every part cf the British Empire Always have we had Irish soldiers, and always have they been among the best. So I know the Irish at home and away from -home, and nowhere do they think cf England a s certain Irish in America would have you believe," j