The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1918-07-09
DENY THAT IRISH =
ARE PRO-GERMANS
Leaders Say Sentiment Not Gen.
eraI and Display Made BY
Only Few Radicals

DUBLIN, June % 49, Associated
| Press -" Ireland is not pro German"
declares all the Irish leaders, but there
is considerable element in Dublin,
Cork and other Irish cities, that is
ready to cry Cup the Hun at every
opportunity.
During the week following the arrest
of De Valera and the other Sim Fem
leaders, the strains Of the " Watch on
the Rhine were frequently heard on
Dublin streets, sung by small crowds
of Sim Fem sympatbizers. IT has been
frequently recorded. that Irish hood
Iums - the moving picture theaters
have hlssed pictures of British and
American soldiers and sailors, and a
letter in Dublin newspaper this week
states that moving picture audience
chCercd Il picture of the medal cast by
the Germans to common crate the sink
my Of the I.usitania
Prisoners Cheered
One of the most remarkable scenes
" hich the Associated Press correspond
rnt witnessed in Dublin was the en-
thusiastic cheering of ship,oad Of
German informed prisoners, who were
UCing taken from a camp in Ireland to
camp on the Isle of man. \ crowd
of several hundred persons, mostly
Wearing Sim Fem colors and waving
sim Fcin flags, stood on the quay
and sang the Sim Fem soldiers
song to the departing prisoners. Many
of the members OF the crowd we're rela.
tivct. by marriage of the informed
aliens.
The prisoners were practically the
entire population Of Il camp established
carly in the war at OIdcaStlr, Ireland
for German civilian prisoners. They
Wrr" $50 in number, aud were embark
ed from q Dublin dock ON Sunday
morning. From an early hour their
Irish friends began gathering along
both sides of the river. A strong mill
tary force was present and took com
pIrte possession Of the quay alongside
which the steamer was h"rthcd.
ECfOrc the special train carrying the
prisoners arrived at the dock, there
appeared a freight train of ten cars.
containing the "baggage of the Ger
maus. This amounted o'ten car loads
Of the most unusual baggage that was
ever handled on the bank Of the River
Lifrey. There were pianos, double bass
viOlins, and the whole set of instru
ments for the camp band; there were
sailors seq trunks of great variety;
there was grandfather clock of huge
proportions, and a complete set of the
atrical properties and stage scene.
ry, which told of entertainments past
or for future production.
Khaki clad dockmen pqrspired over
the job of arranging, these mountains
of baggage into slings, hosting them
stuff away in the hold.
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.
HandkerchiPfs were waved by the
women, and the prisoners waved back
out of the train windows,
Crowd Rushes Quay
Several times the crowd made a rush
towards the quayside, but the military
and police allowed no entrance to tho
dock sheds and the crowd Of 0nIoOkers
finally took up positions on top Of
lumber piles lower down the river
wall, where the boat could he seen
and checred as it started down the
river.
Sim Fem scarfs and ribbons were
worn by most of the women in the
crowd. A similar crowd quickly col
lected on the south wall, across the
river, where the men and women sang
over and over the Sim Fem song, and
cheered themselves hoarse as the de
portc"s were brought onto the decks
of the steamer
Then suddenly the strains Of brass
band, playing Il medley of German
airs, lOutcl out ON the water. 1t wa,
he aliens camp band in action. A.
they played, the boat started, cheer
were raised again, the steamer gained
headway, the cheering died down and
the crowds began to dispense The sol
tiers aud police on the docks filed
back to their barracks and the festivi.
ties were over.