DECADENCE OF THE EMPIRE.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9115, 15 June 1908, Page 5

DECADENCE OF THE EMPIRE.

AN ALLEGED INTERVIEW. Received June 14, 4.45 p.m. LONDON, June 13. Cardinal Logue hab leturi ed to Ireland from America, and deilares that the interview cabled on JVif-y 14th was a pure invention. He never stated that Australia and New Zealand were on the verge of rebellion, and never referred to India.' He admitted stating in a New York draw-ing-room that when Britain became old and infirm, she was likely to receive her coupe-de-grace from her Irish subjects, whom she was sending to foreign lands, as they went, with vengeance in their heartd.

Cardinal Logue was alleged tQ have said in New York that he saw signs of Britain's certain dissolution. The colonies were restive. Australia today was practically independent, and the trend in every moment was more and more in the direction of absolute rebellion. New Zealand was indifferent, and Canada was legislating in a mariner showing a desire to conduct her business in her own way. The fires of rebellion had been lighted in India, and men and women had hanged for daring to advocate a doctrine of never-dying freedom. When England sat alone as the result of misgovernment, it would ce a day of reckoning for the children of Ireland.