AS PUZZLING AS EVER.

Taihape Daily Times, 14 September 1918, Page 7

AS PUZZLING AS EVER.

There is a recrudescence of the trouble in Ireland recorded in today’s cable news. Mr. W. Townend, a well known and popular American journalist and novelist, who went to the war '.as officer with one of Uncle Sam's first contingents and was trained with many of his compatriots in Ireland, where it was hoped the presence of the Sammies would have an effect in stirring the patriotism of the sons of Erin, has been studying the psychology of the Irish on the spot. Writing his impressions of Ireland and the Irish, Mr. Townend says; “I am now in Ireland. The weather is glorious, so is the country, and the people are—-well, beyond all understanding. I like them,- but to understand them is quite another matter. Is there a solution to the Irish problem? I thought once there was.“ Now, having spoken to most classes of the Irish, I am not so sure.” Which goes to make the puzzle df Home Rule more puzzlesome than ever, when a sympathetic neutral cannot see light.