The New York herald., 1922-04-08
irish COUNTESS HERE
TOFIGHT FREE STATE
Markievicz Finds Collins
and Griffith Are Only
Stupid.
CALLS THEM TRAITORS
Kevin Barry's Sister With
Irish Leader Arriving
Il by the Aquitania.
AMERICA HAILED ABROAD
D. +. Malone Says Austria Is
Thankful for Our Gener-
osity and Industry.


terday by the Cunarder Aquitania.
from Southampton and Cherbourg. to
plead her cause before American audi
cnccs and to oppose the leaders of the
Irish Free State. Collins and Griffith,
whom she called virtual traitors to
the cause they originally espoused."
Tho Countess, who gets her title by
n,arriage to Polish nobleman, con-
fnsses to Anglo-Saxon blood and she
has no trace of the brogue one natu-
rollv cxpccts from an Irish revolu-
tlnnary. She is daughter of the late
Sir Jocelyn Gore Booth OF County
sligo, whose wife was of English
birth
The Countesss age is not in Geographic
o, records. but she looks young, is tall
and slender and does not care much for
fashionable dress. She opened her bag
gage on the pier with youthful alacrity
that pleased the customs inspector, who
found no bombs or other explosives. ex-
cept of literary sort. She is blue eyed,
has regular features, that might be
GdDcu JsHSilSD, tdiho idpioays 0e1 Wis'A
hne cnunciation, and has cheerful
manner Of greeting people.
Thinks Free staters Stupid.
The Countess did not refer to Collins
and Crifflths with bitterness. She said
perhaps they did as they had done
through stupidity. Having been under
sentence OF death and had rough expert
ences In British prisons for her par
ticipation in Irish uprisings. 1t surprised
none OF her hearers when she declared
with emphasis that In order to perpetu-
ate the Irish Republic, which she insists
is not only in existence but has 30 per
cent OF the irish army behind it, she
was willing to go to prison again, and.
If necessary. be executed. s. y,
The Countess is accompanied by Miss
Kathleen Barry. native Of County Car
low, who will assist her in her American
campaign. Miss Barry's brother, kevin.
a boy, was executed for taking part in
an attack on a body Of British soldiers
in 1890. About the report that the
Countess was sent here because the Irish
Republican party's representatives in
New York, Austin Stack and John J.
OKelly, had proved unsatisfactory, the
Countess said:
That Is not so. They wanted me to
come because know more about recent
events and developments in Ireland. be-
cause i am fresh from the scene OF
conflict"
The Countess and Miss Barry will
g. ftzx
conference with Stack and O'Kely at
the Waldorf.
Malone Ignores Untermyer.
Dudley Field Malone. former Collec-
tor Of the Port, and counsel for Nine.
Gamma waIska. who has begun divorce
proceedings against Alexander Smith
Cochran. millionaire, returned with his
bride by the Aquitania with nothing to
say about the divorce case. He said the
recent comments OF Samuel Untermyer
on Mr.. Malone's alleged remarks in
Paris about the affairs OF Mrs. Coch-
ran were based on something he had
not said and that therefore he could not
answer any questions on the subject.
Mr.. Malone said he found everywhere
IN Europe great faith In the world lead
ership of the United States. the good
will of President Harding and the
Craftsmanship OF Mr.. Hughes. Mr..
-hfalone had learned while In Austria
that the American generosity and the
industry. courage and organizing ability
OF american women had saved the pop
uIation of Vienna and that "our ma
tive cheerfulness Is felt everywhere
through popular American music, and
Irving Berlin Is as well known In Aus
trla and on the Continent as Strauss"
Major Evan NJ. johnson. in command
Of the Seventy-scventh Division on the
.af. fsNr<~ A L.
resigned from the army while Military
Attache OF the American Embassy at
Rome. returned home by the Cunardcr
He asked for news of the suicide OF
Lieut.-Col Whittlescy. and said that he
intended to make a personal study OF
the case. He confirmed the report tina,
Whittlesey's battalion never had been
lost by remarking:
j ordered him to go there and his
was the only command that achieved
It's objective"
Mrs. Hewitt Returns.
Mrs. Peter Cooper Hewitt. widow %
the electrical inventor, arrived and de-
clincd TO answer questions about tho
defamation suit started against her IN
Paris by ElizalSth E. Kelly, the nurse
VINO attended Mr.. Hewitt In his last
Illness. Mrs. Hewitt did not leave her
suite on the trip. and che went from
the pier Immediately after landing.
Prince Maximillan Hohenlohe -Lanren
burg Of Austria arrived to 60 TO his
agricultural estates In Mexico. He had
q Czecho-slovakian passport. as his home
passed into control of the newly created
state after the war. He brought with
him Albert Kleigel. agricultural expert.
who will manage n part OF the estates.
The Prince ~ rs. speaks English perfect-
". has large admiration for America
and viii stop ten days at the Ritz-carl-
ton to see thc city.
Other arrivals were Dr. Ignacio Bar
rauucr OF Barcelona and Or. AIvar Gull
strand and DR.. j. w. Nordensson OF
Sweden, who will attend the ophthalro- |
logical congress IN Washington Albert |
". Wiggin. Sir John Henry Miss Cor
della :. Hepburn, Frederic w. Upham, |
Harold G. Richard. president OF the State ,
Bank; William Harris chairman OF tho 1
Ritz-Csrlton system OF hotels. who said \
that there was more than four times as
much drunkenness In Chicago as there I
Twas IN LONDON; AIRS rh;lip de ionde, .
wife Of the Consul-Gcneral ~ Paraguay .
a fnig mort. and Mira & n Cuuaenheifn