Omaha daily bee., 1916-02-27
IRISH REGIMENTS BRAVE
People Pleased by Reports of Gall
liant Service at the Front
in Europe.
STIRRING ACCOUNTS OF ACTION

Correspondence OF the Associated PreasO
DUBLIN. ireland. Jan. 1.-THE Irisia
people have recently been aroused by the
reports Of gallant service by the Irish
regiments. Just az the Sixteenth division
OF the new army. THE Irish BRIGADE
that rallied upon the invitation Of MHs
Redmond from the Irish National volun-
teers. north and south. was preparing b
go TO the trenches. came stirring accounts
OF the deeds Of the Tenth division round
Lake Dorian In Macedonia The Tenth
division was the first purely Irish divts-
ion to take part In the war. It received
Its baptism of fire at Sulva bay. ana
fresh from the ships was thrown against
the entrenched positions on the Anafarta
ridges. No official account OF its valor
in that desperate fight has yet appeared.
But the unofficial accounts Of the capture
OF Chocolate Hill and Dublin Hili by
the Dublin fusillers, and the frontal at
tack by the Inniskillings on the AnafartA
trenches, are among the most stirring
chapters IN Irelands military annals The
Tenth division represented Ireland. north
and south. though drawn mainly from
the south. The general who organised u
Is an Irishman. General Sir Bryan Mahan.
a first cousin Of Sir Edward Carson But
close az the relationship OF the soldier
to the politician. the generals popularity
IL confined to no political party in Ire
land. He Is an Irishman first and last
and all the time, and full Of pride in his
Irish regiments For some reason yet
unexplained he was in command at
sulva bay: but when the Salonlki ex.-
petition was decided upon he was given
the command Of the British forces. and
among the first to land were the rem
nants OF the gallant regiments that had
! fought around Sulva bay.
Regiments Guard Retreat.
To the galIantry of the Munster Fusi-
liers. the Dublin F'usiliers and the Con-
naught Rangers. the general ascribes the
safe execution OF the plan for the with
drawal TO the Vardar. And the generals
eensors have also allowed the press cor
respondents to describe the work of the
regiments. They state that but for the
stand of the Tenth division and the
fierceness OF its counter attacks with
bayonets when there was no artillery TO
help them. the retreat Of both the French
and the British armies would have been
cut off and the orderly withdrawal would
have become a rout. Two companies OF
/ tho AhtliohAaAhhS p9ahSo VA SANAA heiN
up the Bulgarian advance for eonsid-
cradle time. and stood their ground until
they had fallen almost TO man.
This frank recognition OF the valor OF
the regiments has had an excellent eff
feet IN Ireland. II was an auspiclous
coincidence that the news should have
come az the Irish Volunteers division was
preparing 20 strike its tents. The division
was recently reviewed by the queen. One
OF the brigades is composed almost wholly
OF nationalists from Belfast and Derry.
The regiment contains some OF the best
fighting material In Ireland. and the
Irish public have followed every step OF
its enrolment and training with unpre-
cedented interest. It's new general. Gem
erai Hiclxie. is q Tipperary man.
Meanwhile the enrolment OF the re-
serves for the various Irish bFigades goes
on. Fifty thousand men have been asked
for within the year.