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FOE OF IRISH Fret:
.SThTETOTOlJRU.S.
Countess MaIkeWjCz to Tell il
Truth About Ireland.
HAS BEEN IN JAIL MANY TIMES
considers Collins and Griffith Traitors.
and Says she is Willing to Sacrifice
Her Life For a Republic.

New York, April 5. Countess Gr"r.
.iaua AEarkewicZ leader OF the IRE.
cnuciahle irish women opposed I"
ANYTHING short of republic III frIu,
arrived on the steamship AqulI;tnla
for Il speaking tour in the United
States.
The countess, let it be known right
away that she considers Collins AND
Griffith traitors. and said she was
willing To 90 To Jail agalfI-as She ST
often has in the paSt-ln fact, she WAS
ready TO sacrifice her life in the fight.
rather than acquieSce To amy oath ol
aIlegiance to Britain.
Al the pier she was cheered 10y
rroup of Irish Republican sympathiZ.
erS.
In the matter of sentiment TOWARD
the aims of the Irish Republicans, she
said she did not think America need.
ed TO be influenced. AS for herself.
she does not recognize the existence
of an Irish Free State. The only Pc,
sition Griffith has, based on the will
of the people of Erin, she argued, is
that of head of the Irish Republic.
The countess said her present mis-
sion WAS to put he truth before the
friends of Ireland in the nitcd States
who ''magniticently supported us i'll
or fight"
The countess came Oh British
vessel, but with Il Polish passport.
her husband being Il Pole. She report
erd splendid treatment fl ON the crew:
blt some Of the passengers sought t.
make it unpleasant for her, she said.
The first day out she was at table
with what she called "a party of III.
pleasant English" but she had the
steward change her location for sub
Sequent meals.
She was accompanied by Kathleen
Barry and Thomas O'Connor. secre-
larry of the delegation which the Irish
Republican party has sent to America.
Few women of prominence have
gone TO Jail as many times as Coun-
Tess MarkiewicZ, Yet one would never
Guess iii looking ut her that she is
any more accustomed to pacing up
and down Il cell month after month
imam any other middle-aged woman OF
position.
No matter what happens, she said,
the Irish are going to get the repub-
tic. They are ready to go out and die
for it, she was sure, asserting that
more than so per cent of the Irish
Republican army already had declared
IL, col
diers looked upon Griffith and Collins
as traitors.
These two leaders, who supported
the treaty with England, were, she de
clared, like others through the history
Of all struggles, willing to let others
way, she added, land Collins and Grit
nth stepped into Redman's Shoes
Irish women, the countess reported,
We're not permitting Collins and other
Free State advocates to use the Sim
Fein tricolor at their gatherings. The
women were taking the flags away
from them.
Tearing up of railroad tracks and
other recent means used by those who
sought to prevent Collins from keep
ing speaking engagements were de
scribed by the countess as only play
sul schoolboy jokes.
No one could take the triple oath
Of allegiance" under the treaty, the
countess said, without deliberately
committing perjury, if they already
had sworn the oath of allegiance to
the Irish Republic"
Collins and Griffith say now that
the Free State is a halfway house on
the road to a republic, she asserted,
declaring that if they lad made this
statement weeks ago they would have
received no support. None can work
for the republic and maintain that al
Iegiance To Britain that the treaty
provides, she cOntended.
The countess began to attract i'll
!ernatiOnal attention in 1913 when she
was one of the leading sympathizers
i'll the Dublin street car riots that
grew out of the strike led by James
i.arkin.