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The Irish standard., 1916-11-25
IRISH SLACKERS I'M CANADA:
RECRUITING IS FAILING
Conscription Is Practically Abandoned in Canada-News
of Australia Turning Down Recruiting Had Proper
Effect Among Canadians Much Surprise Ex-
pressed by Canadian Officials -Anti-Con-
scrptionists Are Optimistic

are Irish. The long mooted plan of an
Irish Brigade for Canada has been
given up owing to the failure of the
Irish to recruit in sufficient numbers.
The bitterness of the French
against the English deepens over the
Language issue. Fearing civil war
His Holiness Pope Benedict issued a
manifesto which was read in all
churches urging peace and harmony
among the faithful on this burning
question which has divided the races.
The Irish slackers are being derided
and bad blood is shown on all sides.
The English form less than one-half of
the Dominion now. There are more
than 100000 of Irish origin.
The Irish standard., 1916-11-25
SITUATION IN IRELAND IS
AGAIN REPORTED CRITICAL
The Flowerhood of Ireland Again Threatened bv British
War Masters-Opposition Is Growing Daily to Con-
scription and Efforts Are Being Made to Hasten
Enlistment Through Threats
Qrish Press and News ServiceD

Qrish Press and News Service.)
The situation in Ireland is critical
again.
Five hundred thousand young men,
the last remnants of an old race, are
to keep off the death damn
from their brows once they are
marched to the Somme, where the
bones of the Irish regiments rot in
nameless graves.
The lads of a year ago are gone.
So far as native Irish are concerned,
the Munster Fusiliers, the Connaught
Rangers, The Ulster division. Red.
mond's Volunteers and Devlin's men
from Belfast are mostly dead. None
return, save the armless, legless, eyes.
shot-out cripples-the manned beggars
of generation to follow.
The wastage of the Irish regiments
shall no longer be supplied from our
bone and sinew,' is the cry that goes
out to the conquerors and rulers of
Ireland. mo more. We have given
enough. Come and take us by force
from our cabins We can die but once
and at last we die for Ireland"
So goes the protest throughout the
island, guarded by 10000 soldiery and
warships watching every harbor..
No native Celt may leave the coun
try, none may come in save by eluding
the coast guards. Little news is per
mitted in Ireland but false news. The
headlines of censored press an
nounce GLORIOUS" British victories on
the Somme. The public does not know
that the entire ground covered by the
advance in five months is sarcely euua
to one-half the area of the city of New
York.
The tremendous casualty list of hal
million Is omitted. Newspapers an
nounce tremendous Roumanian gains
in Pennsylvania when the truth is the,
have been driven out of that country
The Irish standard., 1916-11-25
ENGLAND RECEIVES
Severe REBUkE
And It Is Little Mexico This Time
That Makes Light of Threats-Sub.
ject Is Presence Of U-eoats in the
GuIf-AguiIar Protests That Allies
Did Not Try to Coerce America.

Especial to The Toledo Daily Blade.)
Mexico City.-The Mexican foreign
office has dispatched a reply tinged
with sarcasm to British note report.
ing the presence of German subma
rines in Mexican waters, and declaring
that the Allies will take drastic action
If they receive aid from Mexican
sources
The British note furnished the first
official confirmation of vague rumors
that U-boats have succeeded in reach.
ing the Gulf Of Mexico. 1t was trans.
mitted through the American state
department and demanded close cen.
sorship of messages sent from Mexi-
can wireless stations. Obviously the
British government feared raid on
British oil ships leaving the Tampico
field.
Foreign Secretary Aguilar, replying,
suggested that England might prevent
colnpllcatlOnS ny using her. WarShipS
to prevent German submarines from
reaching Mexican waters. He added
that it was extraordinary for the Brit
ish government to hold Mexico re.
sponsible for submarine activities in
her waters, inasmuch as no such ac-
tion was taken with reference to the
United States when German subma-
rines operated against British ship.
ping Immediately after visiting United
States ports.
Aguilar also protested in polite dip
lomatfc phraseology against the send
ing of the note through the American
government. He declared that here.
after communications transmitted in
this manner will not be answered.
The Irish standard., 1916-11-25

with onefourth of their army de.
stroyed.
In Ireland the press was forced to
make the people believe that the Brit.
ish were victorious on the Gallipoli
peninsula for six months until finally
the disastrous rout and final retreat
from Turkey could no longer be con-
cealed.
The vultures of the desert have
picked Off the dead bones of the Irish.
men there. All newspapers in Ire
land that attempted to warn their fell
low countrymen of the disasters have
been suppressed and no longer ap-
pear No newspaper in Ireland has
been suppressed and no longer ap-
pear No newspaper in Ireland has
been allowed to print an account of
the sinking of the great battleship Au-
dacious, which was an event of great
local news Importance, the ship hav-
ing been sunk by mine or torpedo
just off Lough Swilly, Donegal.
Great Britain Needs Irish Army.
Despite all this mobilization of dis
torted news, the heart of Ireland
beats true. A harried, frightened
Irish parliamentary party scurries to
London, the fires of revolution burn.
ing about their coat tails.
Most of the eighty members depend
on British politics for a living, some
enjoy war profits, others have sons
and relatives billeted on the govern
ment. Many extra jobs have been
provided for their retainers in the
various departments created under
the war acts. They have tried to be
practical politicians" since the DAYS
of salaries and favorable budgets, and
human nature is much the same over
there as here.
They must make some sort of a
The Irish standard., 1916-11-25
U. s. SOLDIERS CONFIRMED.

One of the most novel and edifying
scenes witnessed in the Redemptorist
Fathers church, st. Gerard Majella,
San Antonio, Texas, took place one
Sunday recently when % soldiers of
the Seventh Illinois infantry and a
number of the parishioners received
the Sacrament of Confirmation at the
hands of Rt. Rev. j. w. Shaw. Rev.
John O'Hern, chaplain of the Seventh
Illinois infantry, also attended the
High Mass with about IS soldiers of
his regiment.
The Irish standard., 1916-11-25
(1rish Press and News service.)

(1rish Press and News Service.)
Ottawa, Canada, Nov. 16, 1876
The conscription or army drafting
movement in Canada has practically
been abandoned since the news has
come that the Australian colonies have
voted down conscription by only $4,000
majority out of 100000 men and
women voters. Much surprise is ex-
pressed in Canada over the Australian
referendum as the voters of Australia
are largely of English stock with
large Irish and Scotch elements. The
fact that the Irish vote held the bal
ance of power at the Antipodes and
undoubtedly swung their votes against
the conscriptionists has added to the
i'll feeling already existing in Canada
against the Irish Nationalists who
with few exceptions have refused to
join the army. Not more than four
per cent of the available members of
Irish organizations in the Dominion
have gone to the front. They have
Joined the French elements of the
province in their opposition to send
ing more recruits across the seas and
the tension is growing.
England expects Canada to furnish
100000 more recruits, i'm addition to
the 100000 already supplied. The
government has forced the resignation
of General Sam Hughes the head of
the Canadian army service and ex-
poets to adopt more drastic methods
for securing larger army. The news
from London that the war will last
until 1918 is most depressing to Cana
dians as they had been led to believe
the conflict on the Somme would
bring the war to an early conclusion.
The government claims to have no..
600 soldiers on battle fronts and $780,
600 in training. The loses are esti-
mated at $4,000 of which scarcely 1000
The Irish standard., 1916-11-25

In statement regarding the potato
crop in Ireland, Mr.. r. w. Russell,
vice president of the agricultural de-
partment, said that, owing to the late
harvest and the recent wet weather,
the lifting of potatoes is proceeding
somewhat slowly. In many districts
not more than half the crop has been
raised. From reports that reach the
department daily from all parts of the
country the crop was, said Mr.. RUS
sell, two-thirds normal.
There u.s." the vice president add
ed, "a high proportion of small tubers,
and a notable, but not very high, per-
centage of diseased. In some districts
the quantity and quality are good.
Generally speaking, the situation
would not be regarded as serious if
conditions were normal. The depart
ment urges that farmers should not
feed pigs with tubers suitable for hui
man consumption or for seed, and
that they should take every oppor-
tunity of sorting potatoes in the pits.
Further, they warn farmers against
export from districts where there is
not more than sufficient for local re-
quirements. The department has no
power to prohibit export and fix prices,
but they are in consultation with the
government on the subject"
On Saturday, week ago, practically
no potatoes arrived in Dublin market,
and yesterday again the supplies were
limited, and best samples passed at
from 9s to 9s Sd per cwt.
Potatoes were practically unprocur-
able in the Dublin markets, Tuesday,
October 81, and fetched 9s to 9s Cd
hundredweight, an increase of about
Is during the past two weeks. They
were retailed in Dublin on the same
date at Is Cd stone.
The Ballinrobe District Council have
expressed grave alarm at the partial
failure of the potato crop, and have
called on the department to cooperate
in preventing the shipment of pota-
toes. Mr.. Miller said that small and
poor as the crop was, if it was not left
in the country the people would starve.
Quotations on the Belfast market on
Tuesday ranged from 8s Cd to los (the
latter for Skerries).
At the weekly meeting of the South
Dublin Guardians on Wednesday, No
vember 1, Mr.. John Scully presiding,
Mr.. Siney moved resolution calling
on the government to take immediate
action in fixing the prices of potatoes,
and at the same time stop expectation
of supplies from Ireland. He stated
The Irish standard., 1916-11-25
SHOWN
BEREAvED WIDOW
Widow Of Irish Leader of Revolution
Tells Of Practical Sympathy
Shown Her in eereave-
ment,
(By Eileen Moore, Special Core.
spondent Irish Press and News
Servical

OCIt4CC.J
Dublin, Nov. 23.-One of the first
three men executed May 3rd by the
English Government as leaders in the
Irish Revolution was Thomas Mac
Donough, M. A. During Easter week
he was in command of Jacobs bis
cult factory, one of the strongholds
captured by the revolutionists. AS a
strategist he showed expert military
skill in holding the position. Besides
being fighting man Thomas MacDon-
ough was man of high literary at
tainments, writer of many books, a
poet and dramatist. He was direc-
tor in the new Irish theater, Hard
wicke street, Dublin, with Edward
Martin and other celebrities. He ma
circulated from the National Univer-
sity and was appointed professor
there. When Patrick Pearse founded
his famous college, St. Endas, for the
making of Irish men, MacDonough
was his chief assistant-throwing
himself heart and soul into the work.
His young widow is a sister of the
prison bride of Joseph M. Plunkett,
who was executed May 4. Another
of the same family-Miss Nellie Gif-
ford suffered six weeks imprisonment
as rebel.
A regimental band was playing, "Its
long long way to Tipperary," as l
drove through the streets of Dublin
to Philipsburgh avenue, to interview
the young widow of Thomas Mac
Donough. AS the haunting refrain of
the English recruiting song filled the
air, it reminded me that Thomas Mac
Donough was Tipperary man, who
had fought and died not for England
but for Ireland.
Mrs. MacDonough presented a pa.
thetic appearance in her deep mourn
ing, with her three and a half year
old son, Donough clinging to her skirt
She is transparently pale with cop
pered colored hair and blue eyes. Her
eyes have an appealing look. Per-
haps that is the reason why General
Maxwell, is said to have sent her a
command to appear in public as little
as possible fearing that her appear
ance might excite public sentiment.
This command was directed particu-
larly to Requiem masses which were
being celebrated all over the city for
the souls of the dead patriots.
Mrs. MacDonough is the mother Of
two children, the boy mentioned, little
Donough, and baby girl called Bar
bara, eighteen months old. There is
a dazed look in her eyes as if she had
not yet recovered the shock of her
husbands death. Her story was the
most pathetic of any l had listened to
from the women of the Revolution.
She was the only one who had not
the consolation of seeing her husband
for even the brief twenty minutes al
loted by the Government to the rela-
tives and friends of the Revolution
lists. Mrs. Pearse did not see her
sons, but Mrs. MacDonough was the
only wife who did not see her hus-
band. She did not know of his i'm
The Irish standard., 1916-11-25
DIED IN THE SERVICE.

While performing an operation at
st. Agnes hospital in Fond du Lac,
on Oct. 21, DR.. ]. P. Connell, one OF
the most prominent surgeons in Wis.
consin, became suddenly ill and died
ten minutes later. The operation was
completed by the nurse who had been
assisting DR.. COnnell.
The Irish standard., 1916-11-25
ANGLICAN RECTOR A CONVERT

England exchanges announce the
reception into the church OF the Rev.
S. A. Cuthbert, formerly a curate at
All Saints Anglican church, Wellings.
borough, and later Anglican rector of
Molesworth. The formal admission
took place at the Brompton oratory,
where the convert received Holy Com.
muniOn at the hands of Father Burn.
ham, at one time magistrates clerk
at WellingsbOrOugh.
The Irish standard., 1916-11-25

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The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-07-07
CROPS DAMAGED
WAsHOUT AT CLAYTON

Clanton, July 6.-(Special.)-The most severe storm ever known in this section has been continuous here for 20 hours. The Louisville and Nashville trains are between two washouts, one three miles of Clanton, the other within the city limits. Trains Nos. l and ? are mail and passenger trains, and a local freight was halted, and is being used to haul filling. There is no chance for passengers to es- cape. They will have to remain in the trains until road is repaired. Section hands and extra help are busily at work. No. when it was slowed down. There Is no danger as to lives. The trains can not be reached with autos as the roads are flooded. Water in the streets of Clanton was at flood tide until p. m. casienally there were indications of the fury of the storm abating, but 1t soon commenced again with renewed energy.
 The good roads meeting, scheduled to be held here. stands adjourned. The Meth odist quarterly meeting, which Is to last for three days, adjourned after organizing with only 12 delegates out of 130 present. Wire is the only means of communication from this point, and fears that poles will fall soon are entertained. The damage to crops is immense. No rural route men can go out as small streams are rivers now, and low lands are lakes. The steel bridge on the highway between Clanton and Lock F. near the city limits, col lapsed at 1:30, and is almost a total loss.
 Other wooden structures over streams in this section have floated away. The loss
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-07-07
The Whole South Is Now
 Favorable to Muscle Shoals

Sheffield. July 6.-(Special. )-The meet ing recently held in Nashville, at which representatives from the commercial bodies of Nashville, Memphis, Birming- ham and Chattanooga, took initiatory ac- ton in a movement to secure the loca- ton of the government nitrate plant at Muscle Shoals, in the Tennessee river. near here, has created widespread in- terest. Naturally the people of this im- mediate section are as a unit in favor ing the Muscle Shoals site for the gov ernment nitrate plant But now the en- tire south has taken up the fight to se- cure the plant, for which the government will expend $20,00OO00 toward its erection, and with so much pressure being brought to bear, it is being freely predicted that Muscle Shoals site will be the favored one over all others when it comes time for the President to make the selection.
 The convention at Nashville will un- doubtedly have great bearing on the Mus cle Shoals site being selected.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-07-07

ms Wife had been assassinated by Joe Green, negro boy, whom he shot short " after his wife was murdered. The trial was of long duration and was one Of the most sensational that had ever occurred in Covington county. The death of Green served two purposes, first to silence witness; and, second to afford a premise for the laying of the act upon one who could deny no facts in the case.
 Other cases announced by the court to- day were as follows:
 Anderson, c. J.-Thomas H. Long vs. Robert Whit, appeal from Selma city court; affirmed.
 Mcclellan, J.-K. Lee Holloway vs. Mary J. Smith, appeal from Montgomery city court; reversed and remanded
 Sam Spicer, Jr., vs. the state of Ala
 bama, appeal from Covington circuit
 court; affirmed.
 A. E. Walker, as superintendent oi
 banks, etc, vs. J. B. McCrary company appeal from Geneva circuit court; re- versed and remanded. Mayfield, J.-Alabama City, Gadsder and Attalla Railway company vs city of Gadsden, appeal from Gadsden city court; affirmed. Somerville, J.-State, ex rel, vs. L. w Scoville, appeal from Birmingham city
 court; motion granted and bill of com paint dismissed. OdFQHef, J.-1 eItd L6WlS, elC., VS. ISDel National bank appeal from Talladega city court; affirmed. I w. H. Sturdivant vs. Mt Dixie Sana | torium, Land and Investment company
 ct al, appealsfrom Shelby county court reversed and remanded. J. H. Jackson vs. Roanoke Banking 1 company, appeal from Randolph circuit l court; affirmed.
 l Board of revenue of Shelby county, e l al, vs. Farson, Son & Co.,, appeal iron Shelby county court; affirmed. l Board of revenue of Shelby county
 ct al, vs. Wayne County and Home Say. ! ings bank, appeal from Shelby county court; affirmed.
 | Thomas, J.-Vinegar Bend Lumber com
 pany vs. Annie R. Leftwich, appeal iron Mobile chancery court; affirmed.
 Southern Railway company vs. E. D
 Goggins, appeal from Jefferson crcui
 court; reversed and remainded. l J. w. Broughton vs. Henry Walker appeal from Anniston city court af firmed
 l Per Suriam-Central of Georgia Rail
 way company vs. state of Alabama, e3 rel, etc, appeal from Lee law and equity court reversed and rendered. ! Farson, Son SS Co.,, vs. J. s. Bird, a 1 county treasurer, appeal from Shelb, county court; affirmed. l Wayne County and Home Savings Bank vs. J. s. Bird, as county treas urer appeal from Shelby county court affirmed.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-07-07

the damage at those points was not heavy. Several houses were unroofed and trees uprooted but there were no casual ties.
 Shipping in the harbor suffered little damage. Similar conditions were report ed from Gulfport, Pass Christian and Bay St. Louis, Miss. There was no con- firmation of advices received late today from Bay St. Louis that several small schooners had been sunk including one with crew of 16, and this report was believed to be erroneous. A number of houses were demolished between Gulfport and Biloxi.
 Fears for the safety of the express cruisers Quicksilver and Glendover and their owners, Ernest Lee Jahncke, and party of New Orleans yachtsmen and society folk, who were on the yachts following the race to Pensacola, were dispelled tonight by word that all were safe and at Biloxi wSere they weathered the storm.
 The greatest property damage in Mis- | sissippi, judging from the reports re- ceived, was in the neighborhood of Lau- rel, Hattiesburg, Newton and towns5 in that section, In Laurel the property loss was estimated at $200 900 and many more thousands of dollars loss to crops and farm buildings nearby. Hattiesburg re- 1 ported great crop damage and many
  tailing serious loss to the lumber in- dustry.
 Jackson and Meridian, betweeen which | cities the storm was central early to- day, sent in accounts of considerable | damage to crops and farm buildings. Wire | service was seriously crippled all over 1 the storm area and many telegraph and telephone poles and wires were blown | down, particularly in the Mississippi coast sectoin and southwest Alabama. | Weather bureau officials stated the storm was central tonight over southeast | Arkansas and northwest Mississippi and
 moving northwest very slowly and with 1 diminishing intensity, causing heavy | rains
 | The Louisville and Nashville started
 two passenger trains from here to the
 north with instructions to go as far as | they could. Railroad officials, admitted | however, it was problematical whether they would be able to get into Mobile.
 The Gulf and Ship Island, running from Gulfport to Jackson, sent train through | on it's line late today
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-07-07
BIG DAMAGE IS DONE
 BY WIND AND FLOODS
Continued from Page one)

harbor. Many windows in the San Carlos hotel were blown out, and similar dam age was done in the business section of the city. The maximum wind velocity was 104 miles Wednesday afternoon.
 In Mobile the property damage was slight. Not life was lost in Mobile, 1t is stated
 The storm tonight is centered over Vicksburg, where it has been practically stationary for the past P hours It moved rapidly inland from the coast last night, muchly diminished in intensity, and prac- tically no damage has been done in the interior other than property loss and damage to crops The railroads are the heaviest sufferers, the Louisville and Nashville, and Mobile and Ohio lines be- ing put out of business into Mobile. The former abandoned all trains between Mo- bile and New Orleans. One passenger train, No. of Wednesday, is somewhere between those two points, but it's exact location has not been ascertained. LAUREL HARD HIT
 Laurel suffered heavy property damage. The vicinity of Meridian reports losses into the hundreds of thousands of dollars during the "A hour. gale. The wind reached a velocity of 55 miles per hour.
 The LoulSVllle ana NaShVllle railroad tonight carried 700 passengers from Mont gomery to Birmingham, from which city they will go over the Queen and Crescent route into New Orleans, it being claimed an open line that way has been estab- lished.
 The interior of Alabama has suffered materially. This state caught the heav- fest rainfall of the gulf states. Tn addi- ton to the reported fatalities from Beloit, rear Selma, thousands of dollars in dam age was done at Tallassee, 35 miles east of Montgomery, where the Tallassee Manufacturing company suffered to the extent of about $50,00O
 Announcement is made tonight that the passenger traffic will be detoured via Birmingham and Meridian, while freight will seek outlet by a shorter route, if one can be established. The Louisville and Nashville road will send no trains south tonight. A local train will go out Friday morning as far as Evergreen and if conditions permit will be sent as far south as possible. An endeavor is be- ing made to open a line as far as Flo- maton, which will give access to Pen- sacola.