IRELAND.

Taranaki Daily News, 1 November 1919, Page 5

IRELAND.

! FATHER O'DONNELL'S CASE. MILITARY TAKE CHARGE. ALLEGED DISLOYAL LANGUAGE, By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. (Received Oct. 31, 10.25 p.m. London, October 29. The Australian military authorities have made a formal charge against Father O'Donnell, the Australian Chaplain, which alleges that he used traitorous and disloyal language when speaking in the presence of a British officer at Killarnoy. He is alleged to have said: "The time is coming, and that very "soon, when Ireland will strike out for herself and claim that glorious independence so long dear to every patriot's heart. I shall come forward to help the people here in their struggle against a tyrannical English Government. We Australians fought for -independence and right of self-government by small nations, which is being denied to the fine.st and oldest little country in the world ■by a few servants of King George, who are filling their own pockets afc the expense of the working people and whose hands are red with the blood of Irish patriots." _

London, Oct. 29. The charge against Father O'Donnell "The King and the Royal Family are not a bit of use to this or any other country. I had hopes that the recent railway strike was the commencement of revolution in England The King, fearing the same, commanded Lloyd George to squash it with a firm harifl."

The charge adds that O'Donnell further stated he had great sympathy with the Sinn Fein, which exists in Australia, and he would do what was possible to advance the cause.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.