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The Irish standard., 1919-11-22
War Against the
Republic of Ireland

sage to the Ulstermen, is in control
at the War Office, and Sir Edward
Carson is presumably in control of
everybody. It is time the English peo-
pie made up their minds to put an end
to the war against Ireland as they are
putting an end to the war against
Russia. Your treatment of ireland is
poisoning the public life of Europe
as even your treatment of Russia
could not do"
The same periodical states, in its
issue of October 1S:
1T does not seem necessary for me
to add anything to this account OF
the Irish situation which l received
from Dublin today:
"'When Mr.. Arthur Griffith said
that the Government would not get
any Of our people to discuss its pro-
posals, he was not so much enjoinine
silence as interpreting an instructive
attitude Of the country. Whether the
present discussions cover any leglsla
tive purpose; whether that purpose
is to blast from the Carsonite track
the Home Rule act as the Constitu
tionalists might say; or to revive an
obsolete oligarchy as Labor might con
tend; or to make Lord Grey's position
tenable in the United States; or thru
intentional failure to persuade opinion
that government by tanks and hand
grenades is the only alternative
these are matters Of pleasing conjec
ture, but they do not seriously occupy
our minds. We do not anticipate
freedom from the conjuncture of Gal
1oper Smith and Sir Edward Carson
These may postpone the self-deter.
mination of Ulster, defeat county op
tion, buckram out a little longer the
hollowness of the Carson claim. But
they will not persuade any public, al
home or abroad, that they are the
agents of an Irish settlement Mean
while, the Sim Fein tide is mounting
and sweeps into new seats. Convoca
tion of the National University has re
turned to the Senate an exclusive Sim
Fein block headed by Mr.. MacNeil by
majorities averaging seven to one
This virtual unanimity shows the
ever-increasing solidarity of the pro
fessional and intellectual classes With
the rest of the community. Before
It the most carefully eontrfved
schemes Of the Coalition viii break
II they do not fail Of their own I'm.
becility.'"
The Irish standard., 1919-11-22
Great Mass Meeting Held in New York
City, Protesting Against Atrocities
Of England in ireland.

New York, Nov. 17.-Hon. Daniel f.
Cohalan, Justice of the Supreme Court,
speaking at the mass meeting of Amer
ican citizens held in the Lexington
Avenue Opera House Sunday evening,
to protest against the atrocities of
Great Britain in Ireland and to demand
the withdrawal of the British Army of
Occupation, said:
american opinion has not yet been
reused to resent the conditions exist
ing in Ireland today, because American
opinion has not been informed as to
the true state of affairs there.
English control of all communities
tion between the two countries and OF
the cable lines is so complete that Eng.
land has been able to shut Ireland of
from all communication with the out
side world, almost as if there were
no Ireland.
Behind this veil of impenetrable
secrecy, England has been carrying
that can find no parallel in any coun'
try in times of peace.
"She has occupied the country with
an army as great in numbers, equipped
with all modern instruments of war, as
though the country was in an actual
state of war.
"She has suspended civil law and
is administering government through
armed soldiers and police. She is
abridging the rights of the people in
many ways, enacting and enforcing a
curfew law, Selling and destroying
newspapers and other means of pub
licity, doing away with the right OF
assemblage, freedom of the press and
freedom of speech, curtailing property
rights in preventing people from using
their automobiles and motorcycles
isolating communities by preventing
The Irish standard., 1919-11-22
Judge Cohalan
Denounces England

the people from having access from
one part of the: country to another,
and in hundred ways, in the name of
peace and order is committing acts
against the people that would be ex-
treme and radical if they were done
under martial law, and under cover
Of an invasion.
"The truth is that the governing
class in England is determined to
stamp out the movement for Irish in
dependence and to break down, If they
can, the spirit of the people. They
are doing everything in their power
to goad the people by a policy of saw.
age repression into acts that would
justify the government in turning the
soldiers loose upon the country. They
are trying once again, as they have
tried so often in the past, to extermin.
ate and wipe out the Irish people.
Realizing that they can only sue
ceed, If at all, by the policy of secrecy,
they are doing their best to keep pub.
lie opinion throughout the world from
being informed as to their actions
They know that publicity means defeat
for them. They recognize that the
public opinion of the world which has
just seen the gigantic war fought in
the name of liberty and self-determin.
alton, would not permit any power
no matter how strong-to wipe out a
nation of people struggling to be free
Call that is asked by the friends OF
Ireland is that the real state of affairs
in that country should be made known
to America. We who won the war in
the name of liberty will insist that
there must be an end to tyranny in
all lands. We will insist that the
English governing class cannot in Ire
land or in any other country re
establish the doctrine that might
makes right, or sweep aside the will
of people that are determined to be
Free"
The Irish standard., 1919-11-22

That the onslaught which seeks to
crush out the Irish Republic by use
Of the only means in which Great
Britain can hope to show any supe-
riority over the Irish people-that Of
brute force-has already reached the
stage where there can be no further
advance except toward actual mass
acre, is indicated in the reports that
reach this country from Ireland.
BY means of wholesale raids, ar
rests, Courts-martial and general dis
order caused, among other things, by
the forcible inhibition Of many of the
ordinary activities of life, it is evident
that the British militarists hope to
arouse the people of Ireland to such q
pitch Of rage that the slaughter which
English imperialists hope for may be
precipitated.
On this page we publish news items,
all taken from a few issues of Irish
newspapers, telling Of some Of the &C.
tivities and outrages by which the
British Occupying Forces hope to
bring about the desired result.
The policy Of the British is called
. war against Ireland in the London
Nation Of September ~, which says:
1T was recently suggested by an
Orange brave that the Irish police
should be armed with hand grenades,
and that they should not be in two
minds about using them If they heard
q suspicious rustling behind hedge.
Most civilized people, on coming upon
a suggestion, would conclude that a
criminal lunatic was doing his best
to be funny. But there is nothing
either too criminal or too funny for
Dublin Castle, which, in putting this
promiscuous death-dealer in the hands
of its agents, suggests that It is pre-
pairing for q campaign Of atrocities
unknown in these islands since the
time Of Lake and Castlereagh. The
week just past has also seen the sup
preston of all the most representative
Irish papers on account Of an adver-
tisement of the Sinn Fefn loan. Fairs
continue to be prohibited over large
areas for fear the assembled farmers
should whisper ssdition, and forces Of
police are hastened hither and thither
to prevent boys from playing the game
Of handball-no doubt lest they might
play II in too republican . manner.
Meanwhile, Sir Henry Wilson, Who re-
Gently sent . typically Carsonite mes
The Irish standard., 1919-11-22
Authoritative Statements.


AS this suggestion appeared in some
American Catholic papers, your cor
respondent sought some authoritative
statement from Sir Henry Howard,
and was able to telegraph that the Le-
cation to the Holy See had nothing to
do with Irish politics. Again, when
the Hierarchy in Ireland took very
decided line at the time of the move
ment against conscription, and an en-
deavor was made to drag Rome into
1t, an authoritative statement was OBJ
tained from the Vatican that the Holy
See did not interfere with Irish Bish-
ops in their views and conduct on
purely political matters.
Reason for Bishops Action.
1t was clearly recognized here at
the time that the action of the Bish.
ops was taken in order that their
authority might prevent any political
action going beyond due bounds, en-
tirely in keeping with the age-long
relations between Bishops, clergy and
people in Ireland.
Only Couple Of Lines.
The only utterance of the Holy See
on the subject was contained in a
couple Of lines in the Holy Fathers
letter to Cardinal Logue and the Irish
Bishops. The letters referred mainly
to the coming Beatifcation of Ven.
Oliver Plunkett with, in the two lines
mentioned, q quiet allusion to the ne
cessity of prudence and moderation,
especially in difficult times. That is not
to say that His Holiness and the Vati-
can generally do not follow with in
terest, and occasionally with anxiety,
Irish political matters; but they have
complete confidence in the Bishops
taking the prudent and moderate at
titude, which need not in the least
clash with the most patriotic senti-
ments.
First Hand Information.
Nor does the Holy See go to the
British Legation for its information
There is no institution in the. world
better informed about the Irish, as
about other affairs, than the Holy
See; and it gets its information from
first hand sources.
There is plenty Of trouble in ire
land AZ elsewhere. but there Is no
reason to drag the Holy See into It.
The Irish standard., 1919-11-22
Desired
by the Vatican
Catholic Press Association.)

(Cath0lic Press Association.)
Rome, Oct. 1.-THE "Osservatore
Romanio" of yesterday contained the
following:
Under the heading, The Pope
and Ireland the 'Freeman's Journal
of Dublin, of September 25, published
the following correspondence from
Paris:
Misleading Telegram.
"A telegram from Rome to the
Echo de Paris says that Vatican cir
cles are particularly interested in the
present situation in Ireland. The
Department of the Secretariate of
State is in frequent contact with the
British Ambassador to the Holy See
and also in continual correspondence
with the Church in Ireland. Rigor-
GUS measures have been taken by the
ecclesiastical authorities, directed
towards the condemnation of acts of
rebellion and crimes, which no son
of the Church could justify or excuse.
The Vatican desires to preserve CON-
plete neutrality as regards Irish af-
fairs; but at the same time the Pope
continues to give counsel to the Arch
bishop of Armagh and to the other
Irish Archbishops and Bishops"
I'VE can state" says the 'Osserva-
tore, "in the most absolute manner
that the above notice, in so far as it
regards the Holy See, is destitute of
any foundation whatever"
Even in his nomenclature, the cor
respondent of the echo de Paris"
might have been more careful. There
is no British Ambassador to the
Holy See"; and His Eminence. Car
dinal Logue, is not usually called just
the Archbishop of Armagh" More
over, If he had made inquiries in prop
er quarters, he would have found that
neither the British Legation to the
Holy See nor the Holy See itself
busted itself with the political affairs
of Ireland.
Long ago. just after the arrival of
Sir Henry Howard, the first British
Minister, who presented his creden-
tial letters in December, 1914, the sug-
gestion was made that Irish politics
and the relations Of the Holy See
thereto were matters with which the
British Legation would occupy itself.
The Irish standard., 1919-11-22

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The Irish standard., 1919-11-22

after when a quarrel starts between
two classes, they must not interfere
with the rights of the public. Indi-
viduals and organizations must remem-
ber that their rights and liberties are
not more extensive than the rights
and liberties of others. A right be-
comes wrong when it is carried too
far, just as liberty becomes licensed
when it goes beyond bounds.
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The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-07-10

Then he changed. He became rest less and dissatisfied. wanted to make money, and worried about certain in- ventions he had patented including motor-bicycle to be run on paraffin instead of petrol. What had happened to him?
 Iandru's medical history may pos- sibly supply the answer to the whole problem A few years earlier an at tack of meningitis, or brain fever." had laid him low Then typhoid further enfeebled an already poor constitution. What effect these ill., nesses may have had on his mind and character only medical experts can conjecture.
 This much is certain - that, from being "Sundayschool-teac sort Of a man, Landru in a short while de- veloped into a thorough-paced swind- Ter of low and cunning type.
 He ran bogus employment agencies. bucket shop" financial concerns. and other fraudulent enterprises. And he ran rather clumsily, for several sen fences of imprisonment rewarded his efforts.
 While serving one term he was re- moved to a prison reserved for weak Wineed dehnouents. where a mental specialist seems to have expressed doubts as to his entire sanity. His family. brought to misery by his wrong-doing, thought him rather the victim of circumstances-more sinned asatnH tbAn sinning
 But all this time there was never a hint of Don Juanism in Henri Lam drus career. Whatever other gr1ev- ance his wife had against him, un- faithfulness was not one of them.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-07-10
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lessly good" He was regarded by friends and neighbors as quite defi- nitely a decent and useful member of society.
 It is no use trying to explain this on the grounds of hypocrisy. What man has ever really deceived his mother? Or who can say in his heart that for ten years he has hidden his real character from his wife?
 Now. Landru, without any doubt. was the kind of boy who never gave his parents a moments uneasiness." They were decent Paris working peo- education above his station" He was taught in a school conducted by priests, ;" and worked well.
 His mothers only complaint about him was that, if anything, he was rather too demonstratively affection ate. Sometimes he tired her with his carresses, and she was somewhat i'm patient of his girlishness.
 AS he grew up the neighbors thought him a quite a model youth. Always kid gloved on Sunday. an earnest Church worker, as we should say, and never a pettcoat in his his tory till he mot and courted-after mass-the young woman who is now ms WIG.
 Was all this humbug. For ten years. ct any rate, his wife says shc was perfectly happy. Landru worked industriously at his trade of an archi- tect's draugh tsman; never betted or freQuented cafes, and WIS happiest in his own home among his children. A rather timid. gentle-natured, shy sort of man. Good-hearted if no handsome.
 Most women, indeed. found him physically nthey repulsive, with his narrow slits of eyes and weak. shape less sort of mouth. But such charm ing marhers! Tho kind of man who always gave up his seat in a tramway car to a woman. Ono who seemed born to fetch and carry for the others.
 This. 1t seems was Landru tia somewhere about the ago of thirty.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-07-10
t(Copyright, By The Internations
 News Bureau, Inc.)
By NAzARuENE DIAN KHNNIBEILE.

| curious fact that may have an i'm oortant bearing on the Blue beard'' case has boon brought to the notice of the Police by the Marquis de dIahriffe, whose chateau of Neuville is . Ssw hundred yards as the crow fries from Landru's villa at Gam bais,
 rhS Mssquis relates that one storusy day he wnS surprised to mo- tice the extraordinary black and rreasy chara cter of tho water falling from the roof of the farmhouse ~hfoh forms part of his propasty. With . view to having ft analysed he coiIected a. quantity of this strange IiQuid. Experts may be able to de- eide from its composition whether 1t vas she soot emitted from Landru's furnace during one of his roaring oouflagrssions that gave the water it's osouItar appearance, It ts also sue- rogted that tfe roofs of the villa and Of nsighboring houses shall be ex- auiusd for further traces.
 The question has often been moot cd whether in the early days of the war Landru did not engage in spying. rho suspicion attached to him not u,eroiv An villages (, where he lived with his various nanoees who sub sssusntIy disappeared. but also al piaces where he installed his wife and children.
 Tho point is raised afresh by the { evidence of farmer named Sauvalls who lives near 0ournay. in Norman
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-07-10

women have been found out, whereas of II persons whose names he enter ed in his pocket-book not one was ever seen after she left Paris.
 A close watch is kept on Landru in his cell, especially since his remark, ''The'l never bring me to trial"
 While at Nantes prison he de- clared, T shall hold my tongue. After all, I'm 50, and I'm at the erd of my tether any way"
 By all ordinary standards Landru is the Vtckedest man in the world al the present time. The wickedest man that is, in private life.
 Iandru's supremacy in badness lies in the fact that he not only con- ceived the most astounding series of individual crimes in modern history, but that he carried them out with his own hand. He had no accomplices.
 From among the hundred women he is known to have met or corres- bonded with, he coldly and de1iber- ately selected at least ton whom he made away with in circumstances which. despite the anass of evidence that has been collected, still remain obscure.
 He also undoubtedly removed" the young son of one of them. but that was simply because the boys disap- pearance was necessary to his own safety.
 Why did he commit these crines7 ' What had he to gain?
 What manner of man Is this mon ster who. for sheer bloodthirstiness. has outdone everything in recent criminal history?
 The desire on the part of tho pub lie for an answer to these questions is not due nserely to morbid curiosity. The safety of society depends to some extent on our understanding of such phenomena as Landru.
 People who imagine that the world is made up of good mon and bad mon will get a rude shock at almost every turn of Landru's history For here is a mnn of 50, who. as far as one knows. led a bIameless dife until the age of 30. He was not merely color
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-07-10
HISTORY OF "BLUEBEARD" LANDRU
 WICKEDEST MAN IN THE WORLD

dy, and who in July 1914 witnessed a motor car descending the hill near his house crash violently into a poplar tree.
 The occupants who proved to be Landru and his wife, were badly shaken and the farmer gave them shelter for tho night. They returned to Paris by train, and a few days later Landru and his son came and removed the damaged car.
 As war seemed imminent Landru said he wanted to remove his family to & place of safety. and induced tho farmer to let him have lodgings.
 Landru gave the name of Diard, but one day one of the younger chill dren said to the farmer:
 why call us Diard when our name is Landru?"
 Landru's mysterious absences also aroused mistrust. He made numerous unexplained voyages to Rouen and places near the front like Noyon and talked about the Huns as if he had seesn them.
 Eventually he left suddenly, taking his family. as is now known. to a distant village while he went to live first at vernouflet, and subsequently,. at Gambais.
 Although Mime. Iandru visited the Gambais villa neither she nor her children stayed there or at Yer pouilet.
 It is confirmed that Landru is en- gagged in writing his memoirs in prison. He began the task a week ago, and is said already to have de- scribed his childhood, his adolescence when he served mass at Paris church, his military service and mar riage, and the first demeanors which
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-07-10

brought him into contact with the police.
 But yesterday he had arrived at a most interesting point in his narra- tive-namely, the story of his fances.
 There is little probability however. that his story will give any assistance to the police.
 He no longer, 1t Is true. jokes with his warders regarding the charges against him with euch remarks as they say I killed II women Why not 100 while I was about it? At least I might have reached a round dozen.
 But although he has grown norose and snappish in his cell he none the less still strenuously denies his guilt. So far his explanations concerning his fiances have not varied.
 'In the end," he says. they all bored me, and as most of them were 'cIingers' took. them away to the country for a few days in order to soften the blow of separation.
 "Sometimes I stayed 24 hours; bu. occasionally I left the same day. ] lent them my villa, telling them they could stay as dong as they pleased, but that all was over between us and that they would never see me again.
 T consider I behaved good and like q gallant man. They could pre- tend it was they who had broken of our engagement, and it was all the same to me if they did,
 After they had left 1t was not my business to worry about what became of them"
 Landru made no attempt to ex- plain why not one of these "ciingers ever gave a sign of life again or why neither of them ever complained to any mutual acquaintance of his deser- ton. or even took advantage of the opportunity he aIleges he gave them to say they had broken off the match
 It is true that not one of them of the scores Of women. particulars of whom were found among Landru's papers and who have been traced, i. willing to confess that she cores pended with him; but at least these
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-07-10

With the outbreak of war the third period Of Landru's history seems to nave opened-the "Bluebeard'' period. War lets loose many passions; shakes
 (Continuedi on Page ThreeO
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-07-10
DIED

sNEE-In this city, Tuesday. July 8. 1919, James M. Snee.
 Friends are invited to attend the funeral from his late residence, No. se Grandfield avenue on Friday. July II, at s:30 a. m., and from St Charles church at g o'clock. I
 Burial in St. Michaers cemetery Automobile cortege. Psb.
 On and after this date I will not pay any bills contracted bv Mrs Martha Schlee, as she has left my bed and board. July 8, 1919. PSs'p FRED SCHLEE
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-07-10
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