Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1915-11-16

In That Country and Is Interesting
Reading:
Corlack House, Ballymoe Co., Galway,
Oct. 2Oth, Is.
MY DEAR COUSIN:
am after coming in from a nurs-
ing class and am very tired. l had
twelve miles to cycle home in the
heavy rain and | was soaked through.
So while resting l will spend my time
writing to you. Every day that pass
es things grow darker for US. May
God protect US and give US courage.
London suffered severely last week
from air raids and the list of killed
was very long. Their names or streets
that were injured are not allowed to
be published. In fact they suppress
everything they can and the people
say it is not fair to keep US in such
ignorance of our real danger Every
little bit Of good news is exaggerated
and the bad suppressed. But all agree
that things are looking very bad
Lord Kitchener says he must get
more men, and he must have 5000 900
of fresh recruits for the spring, and
that he must get LOO fresh recruits
every week from Ireland, and that
people will get another chance to go
willingly before they pass conscrip-
tiOn. The police are going around
taking down the names of every
young man of military age There
did $4,000 young men from Ireland
join since the war began, besides all
the Irish who joined in England and
nearly all the Australian and Canadi-
an army and that one-fourth of the
English army are Of Irish descent.
And yet they are not pleased. The
police have come round from house
to house to notice the people econOm-
iZe in food and clothes. And there
appears notice that institutions
such as aSylumS must be shortened
The taxes are crushing US and the old
people say we will experience once
more the hunger and trials of our
forefatherS. l suppose you often
heard your father speak of the Irish
famine when the people died by the
roadside of hunger and were taken
away in carts to be buried and COW
cred with lime. There are people
living in Ireland yet who remember
it and say the young people will ex-
perience the same trials only worse,
for we wont be allowed to rush off to |
America as the last generation did |
We must stand and make a fight. If |
we have &lO the papers say we are sup |
posed to give G5 in some way to the |
government The banks are gather
ing up all the gold and the people do |
not know what is to become of them.
Food is going up every day and clothes |
are very expensive and will be more |
SO, for all the men will be at the war |
and all the factories will be COM /
mandeered by the army. The Lords |
in the cabinet are not agreeing and |
Lord Carson has resigned this week,
and it is thought the English will
withdraw their troops from the
Dardinelles. There is regular slaugh-
ter there. ] suppose you got my last
letter telling of the death of our
friend Captain Fitzgibbon. Last week
we lost another friend who was
chaplain in the trenches. He was
wounded last Christmas but recovered
and went back again to the trenches.
Last week while attending a dying
soldier a shell burst, a bit of
shrapnel pierced his lungs and
he got twelve other wounds. He
was carried away and died in a
few hours, without even complaining
of his pain. Another priest is home
for few days leave and he tells of
two poor Irish fellows who happened
to be between an English and German
trench. They lay down with the
other dead, to make it appear they
were killed when the Germans were
taking the trench. Every half hour
the two Irish fellows rolled once, to
come near the English trench. At
last the Germans noticed they were
not dead and turned their liquid
fire on them; very soon they were in
a blaze and were burned to ashes.
Protestant England is greatly struck
with the courage and resignation of
the Catholics and Catholic chaplains.
At first they did not allow only very
few Catholic chaplainS out. Now
they see their worth and hundreds of
PrOteStantS are turning TO our holy
religion when they understand us
better. The chaplains go from trench
to trench to attend the dying, needless
of their own danger. Their place
they say lis with the dying" and
one priest tells us he had the happi-
ness of attending fifteen German
soldiers when they were dying. We |
include all nations in our prayers and
offer our prayers for the killed of all
nations. write TO me, dear cousin, |
and tell US what you think. Are |
things as bad as we expect and will |
the country be as poor as we are told. |
The war is costing US e5,OOO,0OO a day |
at present. My brother gave his
beautiful horse to the army fort
night ago. Mother is well. My
brothers have got no holidays. We
got another 1000 wounded soldiers to
nurse since l wrote to you last.
hope this letter will be allowed to
pass.
Recruiting meetings held beside our
house tonight. God help US all. If
the men 90 we will die of hunger in
Ireland, for all our money will be lost,
taken by the government and there
are no factories 10 work in like in
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