Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-01-20
Witness Tells of
Irish Republics
Shipping Efforts


Irish republic, through its consular
service, is building up large and sue.
cessful direct shipping service between
Ireland and other countries, especiallv
with the United States, the commIssiop
of the committee of One Hundred in.
vestigating the Irish question. was fol,
today by j. l.. Fawcett, who said he
was the Irish consul general at New
York. -A
A fortnightly service between New
York and Cork, Mr.. Fawcett said is in
operation and another service will open
soon between Boston and an Irish por
England was said by Fawcett to be
making every effort to prevent direct
shipping with Ireland. He added the
opinion that ION account of her large
debt to the United States. Great Brit.
ian probably will not take extreme
measures to embarass American for. :
eign shipping" although it has subject. !;
ed every ship to search and other in.
dignities. s-s.
No passenger vessels are allowed to
land in Ireland direct from America
the witness declared, adding that this
was "England's effort to stifie Amer.
can passenger service that would com.
pete with the British monopoly"
Constant warfare has been waged
against Irish shipping by English sea-
port towns, he declared. Trans-Atlan-
tic steamship lines can operate between
America and Irish ports, such as Cork
much cheaper than between America
and Liverpool, he said, but British in
terests have until recently controlled
Irish harbors and shipping facilities.
extensive data anl figures intend
ed to show the result of British econ
omic repression in Ireland were pre-
scented by Fawcett. who branching iu-
to general discussion of the Irish
question, summed up the matter as
a clash between two forms of civ
centralized, capital con-
tfoiied government represented by
Great Britain on one hand, and CO.
operative community system repre-.
sented by the Irish republic on the
other"
"The black and tans by wholesale
destruction of creameries, dai,ies
banks and other industries, operated
py the cooperative effort and capital
CT the Irish farmers are fighting the
battles of the British trusts" he de-
ciared. This destruction has amount
ed to an actual loss of. 81, 600, 900 but
potentially by Gripping n fourishing
and growing system it has caused
losses amounting probably to hun
dreds of Millions -
The British parliament, the wit
ness said, had taken -cognizance Of
the danger to English trusts" from
the Irish cooperative system and
had withheld the Irish development
grants for which, he asserted, the
irish people had paid taxes and were
intended originally to help the coop
erative industries.
Figures from British sources were
said by Fawcett to show that ireland
paid thirty million pounds tax
es to Great Britain and received onS
twenty million in expenditures in re-
turn.
THE Irish republican government
nc added. could administer the az
[airs of Ireland with the present tax.
es paid England and remit from "
to 10000 900 poundss
Frank Dempsey of Mallow. loco
motive engineer. described the partial
obstruction of Mallow following the
attack by the Sim Fein on British
barracks last Sentep1her Of He as
serted that soon after he had received
IN invitation from the commission 70
rcme to America to testify before j
ais home was raided and his cores
pondence taken.