Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1918-07-25
Sim FE!NEkS CHttk
ANYTHING GERMAN
As Alien Prisoners Were Being
/. Transferred Sympathy
Was Shown.

Dublin. (by ail.)-'1reland is not
German" declare all the Irish leaders,
but there is a considerable element in
Dublin, Cork and other Irish cities,
that is ready to cry Up the Hun" at
every opportunity.
During the week following the ar
rest of De Valera and the other Sin
Fem leaders. the strains of the
Watch on the Rhine were frequently
heard on Dublin streets, sung by small
crowds of Sim Fein sympathizers. 1t
has been frequently recorded that Irish
hoodlums at the moving picture thea
ters have Missed pictures of British and
american soldiers and sailors, and a
letter in a Dublin newspaper states
that a moving picture audience cheered
g picture of the medal cast by the
to commemorate the sinking
OF the Lusitania.
one of the most remarkable scenes
which the Associated Press cores
pondent witnessed in Dublin was the
enthusiastic cheering of a ship-load of
German fnterned prisoners, who We're
pelng taken from a camp In Ireland to
a camp on the Isle of Man. A crowd
Of several hundred persons. mostly
wearing Sim Fem colors and waving
SIM Fem flags. stood on the quay and
sang the Sim Fein Soldiers Song to
the departing prisoners. Many of the
members of the crowd We're relatives
by marriage of h interned aliens.
Inc prisoners We're practically the
entire population Of a camp estab-
ilsned early In the war at Oldcastle.
Ireland. for German civilian prisoners
Ihey> wer e450 in number and were en-
parked from a Dublin dock on a Sun
Gay morning. From an early hour their
irish friends began gathering along
poth sides of the river. "A strong mill
lary force was present and took COM
p.sie possession OF the quay alongside
Whlch the steamer was berthed.
BEFORE the special train CARRYING tho
PRISONERS arrived at the dock, there
appeared a freight train of 10 cars
containing the baggage" of the Ger,
mans. This amounted to 10 car loads
on .he most unusual baggage that was
hi1fey. There were pianos, double bass
Vlollns, n the whole set of instru-
ments for the camp band; there were
sailors sea trunks Of great variety;
there was a grandfather clock of huge
pIoportions and a complete set of the
atrical properties" and stage cenery,
which told of entertainments past or
for future production.
hhakl-clad dockmen perspired over
the Job Of arranging these mountains
OF baggage into sings, hosting them
on board the steamer, and stowing the
$500 NNC At klAS IlOlu
The train with the German and Aus
trian travellers arrived in the station
across the road from the river. and
was cheered by the crowd outside the
gates. Handkerchiefs were waved by
the women, and the prisoners waved
back out of the train windows.
Several times the crowd made a rush
towards the quayside, but the military
and police allowed no entrance to the
dock sheds and the crowd of onlookers
finally took up positions on top Of lum-
Der piles lower down the river wall,
where the boat could be seen and
cheered as it started down the river.
Sim Fein scarfs and ribbons were
worn by most of the women in the
crowd. A similar crowd quickly coll
lected on the south wall, across the riv-
er. where the men and women sans
OVER and over the Sim Fein song. and
cneered themselves hoarse as the de-
poltees We're brought onto the decks OF
the steamer.
Then suddenly the strains of a brass
band, playing a medley of German airs
tloated out on the water. 1t was the
aliens camp ban in action. AS they
played, the boat started, cheers We're
raised again, the steamer gained head
way, the cheering died down and the
crowds began to dispense. The SOL
diers and police on the docks filed back
to their barracks and the festivities
We're over.