The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1899-01-14
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Lieut.. Gen. Sir George Stuart White,
K. c. B., known all over the peninsula
for long and gallant services. He ap-
pears on the record as "son of James
Robert White, Esq, of Whitehall, coun-
ty of Antrim" Sir Herbert Kitchener,
Lord Kitchener of Khartoum, the most
popular soldier in Great Britain today,
the man who has avenged Chinese"
Gordon's atrocious death, and redeemed
Hicks Pasha's bloody defeat, is native
of Ireland.
With these Irishmen in command of
the British forces in India, in England,
in Ireland and in Egypt, the satirical
call for an American army to free
Ireland" made several years ago in an
English weekly, seems ludricrous, even
though it was intended to accentuate the
fact that the roll-call in American police
stations would send a thrill Of joy
through the bones of the Irish kings.
There was, indeed an army ready to
hand, for at the time the statement was
made the chiefs of police and a large
share of the force in most Of the princi-
pal American cities were Irishborn or
of Irish descent.
Should such rebellion as we are sup
posing spread through the British army,
what of the navy. What name
rises first to every tongue when
the Union Jack is unfured, even
to the minds eye? Whose indeed but
that Of Rear Admiral Lord Charles
Beresford? And the Beresford, too, are
Irish From the same county of Water
ford, which gave Roberts to the army,
'the fighting Beresford" came to the
navy Lord William Leslie de la Poer
Beresford, v. c., proudly enrolled as the
Waterford is an even more familiar
name to the eyes of Americans, for he
married, in 1895, Lily Warren, daugh-
ter of Commodore Cicero Price, of the
United States navy, land widow of
George Charles, eighth duke of Marl-
borough" From Admiral Beresford's
familiar and commanding name, the list
of naval heroes may be scanned with re-
suits entirely gcrmane to the PROPOSE
ton.
The army and navy once infected with
the spirit of revolt once proclaiming
another holy war of the green banner,
what would become of the British col
onies In the colony Of Victoria the in
fluence Of the late prime minister, Sir
Charles Gaven Duffy, is yet paramount.
In America he is best known as the au-
thor of Young Ireland" and the orig
inator of the Nation" Sir Cornelius AL
fred Moloney. after years of valued serv-
ice on the Gold Coast, is governor and
commander-n-chief of British Hondu-
ras. Lieut.. Col. Sir John Terence Mich
Olas O'Bren was rewarded for brilliant
actions in the Mutiny and the Oudh
campaigns in India by being made gov
ernor of Newfoundland 1S95). Sir Den
mis- Fitzpatrick, son of Thomas Fitzpat-
rick, Esq, of Dublin, is lieutenant gov
ernor of the Punjaub. Lieut.. Gen. Sir
Thomas Lionel Gallwey, governor and
Communicated of Bermu d a
QSS2-S), was the son of Maj. John Gall
wey, Of the royal Irish constabulary.
The Right Hon. William G. E. Macart-
ney, M. p, who has recently been in
speeding the Bermuda and Canadian ma
val establishments, Is parliamentary
and financial secretary Of the British
o1v ,,irn NV Ctr I'll. ~ ~ Int
well known Irish family is judge presi-
dent OF the Court of Eastern districts
and member of the court of appeals OF
the Cape Of Good Hope. Sir George
O'Rorke. of the county Galway, has been
eminent in New Zealand since 1854, and
was a member Of the ministry in 1872
He would have great influence in Maori
land. The earl of Belmore, who has
been governor and chief
of New South Wales, is Baron Belmore
of Castle Coole, in the county of Fer
managh.
OF course, instant recourse would in
such an extraordinary event be had to
diplomacy. Sir Nicholas Roderick
O'Connor, X. c. B., who is son of Pat
rick O'Connor, of Dundermott Roscon,-
mon, would be asked to make proper
representations to the court of st. Pet
ersburg, where he is accredited ambas-
sador from Great Britain. Sir Nicholas
was once minister to China, and was not
so many years ago secretary Of legation
at Washington QSS5-O. but he would
find some powerful pro-Irish influences
at work In the winter palace itself.
Irishmen holding office In Russia? Be-
You'd doubt. Mother Church, whose in
fluence has induced SO many of them to
flee from the ould dart since Cromwell'e
persecution began in 1929, made the
Greek Catholic establishment in Russia
seem preferable to the Reformation at
home. The O'Bryans In St. PETERSBURG
became the Obrutscheffs; the ODonnells
the Odontcheffs, and the Scallens, the
Skalons. There is no more distin.
guished soldier in Russia today than
Obrutscheff, general of infantry, aide.
de-camp general, member of the mill
tary household of the czar and of the
council of the empire. 1t is true he has
become a Russian of the Russians. and