New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-10-05
Irish Leader, Here on Cam
pania, Asserts Germany
Is Beaten Power.
FATE OF HOME RULE
DEPENDENT ON WAR
Quick End of HOstilities Would
Put Tories in Power, and
Trouble Would Follow.

Timothy VI. IIealy, Irish member Of
Parliament from Cork, arrived here
yesterday from Liverpool on the Cam
pania. He is planning a business trip
in Canada. lie upheld the stand taken
by Great Britain i'm the war and put
the burden of the blame for the con
flict upon the shoulders of the German
Emperor
Germany" he said. has lost all the
advantage for which she attacked Bel
GUM for a short cut to Paris. Her
whole strategy depended on that move.
She intended to hold Paris for ran
som Of thousand million dollars upon
the alternative of destroying the city.
! regard Germany as a beaten power.
Judging the situation from n political
and diplomatic viewpoint shows that
the Kaiser is no statesman. He blum
dcrcd in abandoning Bismarck's policy
and showed the folly Of the individual
who, because he happened to be mon
arch. chose as his birthrIght a com
pctcncc to direct every military and
diplomatic move"
Regarding Home Rule. Mr. hcaly
said:
ITO some extent VIC owe the passage
of the Home Rule bill to the war. The
future OF the bill depends on the course
of the war. If 1t lasts a year there
must be a general election i'm 1915, when
the Liberals would certainly be re-
turned, and therefore they would have
the Home Rule situation TO handle. II,
however. the war is terminated in "A
short time the Tories would have the
upper hand, and they undoubtedly
would stir up trouble in Ulster, which
the Liberals had promised not to inject
into Home Rule. On the other hand.
with Catholic and Protestant regiments
fighting together to victory there may
be wave Of united feeling that
would dissolve all controversy
Mr.. Healy was accompanied by Sir
Max Atkcn. VI. p, who will journey
with him 10 Canada.
Like several Of the steamships that
have arrived here recently, the Cam
pdnia had ON board man Of mystery.
lie was booked on the manifest A.
Leon Becker. lie looked like a Ger
man. spoke English and was generally
credited aboard ship as being Rus
sian. Asked about his identity. the
man said: "Yes; | am Russian
lieutenant in the Russian army. J
nave come here on business, and eN-
pect 10 20 to Washington to-day"
Also on the Campania was Count
Tsuncha Sano, naval attache of the
japanese Embassy in n'rlin. He was
accompanied by his wife. the Countess
Hisako Sano. with whom he will visit
friends in Washington before return
ing TO Toxic.
The count said he had been treated
with the utmost courtesy by the Ger
man Emperor and the latter had pro
vidcd for the departing ambassador
and his suite a special train, in charge
81 German army officer who re-
NAMED with the party until tn" train
arrived in The Hague.
Colonel !. y. Lewis, /. S. 4. retired.
VINO devised a gun now m use By the
atiators of the Allie, returned on the
Campauia after trip abroad m the
interest of his invention. He said he
had been assured that the gun was a
great success.
Another traveller on the Campanla
Wa 9. Macdonald Hastings, the play
wright. who comes here TO assist Nine.
Nazimoya in the production Of the new
play he has written FOR her, called
."Gfat Sort" Mr.. Hastings whose
play "The New Sin" was produced
at Wallack's two year, ago, said he
volunteered for service with the Eng
fish army, but was rejected because OF
detective eyesight.