The Birkenhead News and Wirral General Advertiser. — 1918-08-14 (Birkenhead, Merseyside, England)

WALLASEY.  white, with an outstretched, tares:cuing hand, - and the legend, "1 vant you!" the phrase under which every Irialima.n has been arrested froui trne immemorial.  Is it any wonder, therefore, tl.at any Anglo-Irishman should be unli)le to understand the Irish question us it is to-day when the opposing sections in each Irish political camp have such contrasting aims and purposes? I did not find one pro-German in Ulster or Leinster, but yet, on both 4  sides, there were people whose conduct was calculated to help German props.. ganda. Every deeent Irishman must writhe with shame when he thinks that Germany, which has ravaged Beilium and Northern France, raped helpless .women, murdered children, taken a large proportion of the population into Germany as slaves, broken the unwritten and sacred law of .the chivalry of the seas, and outraged every law of God and humanity, dares to patronise lre. land' as an oppressed nation and uee ,foolish Irish dupes for her own wicked purposes. Surely, there must be some method of sensible settlement? The resources of civilisation cannot be bankrupt. draw every English official from lrelaod, compel the Irish sections, by financial pressure 'to come to an agreement, ard, we may rest assured that new legions will speedily take their part in their share of the world's war agarn.it injustice and unrighteousness. We must settle this question not only in the mterests of Ireland and England, but also in the important interests of the ''es Anglo-Irish community in Great Britain, the Dominions, and America. live'and trade happily with our English, Scotch, and Welsh fellow-citizens and our brothers beyond the seas. We re heartily with them in their determination to break Prussian militarism. some of the beet of our own blood has hem spent in English, Canadian, Anzac, and American, as well as Irish regiments, for the sacred cause of Belgium, France, Italy, and Serbia, and we w'sn emphatically to show our fellow citizens of the Empire and the Gael beyond the Seas that the paltry handful of 'pis• chief makers in Ireland do not represent the Irish race.—Yours, etc., Liverpool, August Ist, 1918.  0. T.  It was unfortunate that Wallasey were unable to send a full team to South Grove to meet Birkenhead, and it does seem as if the Wallaseyana after their enthusiasm of past years are c43ling off, and that their interest is on the wane. The viaitors were six players short of the required number, and it was necessary to enlist bhe services of H. Rogers (West Kirby), T. Jones (West Kirby Park), F. Walker (New Ferry). and H. Beswick (Birkeuhead Park). The games were well contested, but the keen tussles of former years were conspicuous by their absence. The Associations are due to meet again b3-morrow at Central Park, and for sweet charity's sake it is hoped that both teams will rally to the cause. Apropos of these matches a notable feature is the reapearanoe of Mr. Frank Taylor, Birkenhead and Wirral's secretary, who is now almost quite well again following his serious illness of the early spring. Scores: Wallasey. Birkenhead. 19 R, Rogers, cpt....W E Farrell, opt. 21 21 A Myatt 21 J Mae B Forrester 17 21 J Ryan 21 J Horner ' F J Poole II 13 A Dickenson 11 S Dale 7 T Williams 21 W Deckers 21 W G Collinge 13 W T Britton 18 G Steele 18 D Kenny F Hurst, 21 21 J B Carlyle 21 H Beswick . J E Leas 16 8 F Walker • D J Shore 8 10 TI Rogers 20 T Jones • W R•Whitby 21 18 H Beswick  .....  Majority for Birkenhead, 20 points  • • • •  This inter-Association— match will be piayed to-morrow (Thursday) evening u Central Park, Lisoard. where a collectio for the Lord Mayor's Million Shilling Fund will be made during the tussle. Birkenhead will be represented as foilows:--, J Smith (president). • Mather (chairman). T Baxter (hon. secretary). A Datil:worth (hon. treasurer). J T Anchereon Tranmere (Conservative). T Bromi,low (New Ferry). E Case, D.C. (West Kirby Park). A D Sgien (Orton Conservatives). W E Farell (West Kisby Park, eePt). B Forrester (Birkenhead Park). H Farrell (New Ferry). **F Hurst (New Ferry). T Jennion (Neeton and District). • Mason (New Ferry). T MoChesney (Gladstone Libesls). • Rogers (West Kirby Park). W Richards (Royal Sbiatc W Smith (Tixall). D 3 Shore (South Grove). W E Whitby (Birkenhead Park).