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Telegrams: " DAMP, DUBLIN." Telephone No. 22. DUBLIN METROPOLITAN POLICE;

lDetectt"e lDepartment,

Dublin, 15th. January ,

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I beg to report that on the 14th. Inst .,

the undermentioned extremists were observed

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Inoving ab·out and associating with each ot her

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vith Thomas J . Clarce , 75 , Parnell St . ,

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Joseph lVIcGuinneas for a quarter of an hour

between 12 P• m. Two Irish Volunteers -

E. O'Toole and Alphonsus Keevlahan , Lin1erick ,

who arrived at Kingsbridge at 7-10 p. m. ere I

observed with Clarke for half an hour from

7-45 p. m. J . R. Reynolds for ten minutes

between 8 & 9 p . m. Jrunes J . Buggy , John

T. Kelly and J as . 0 ' Connor for half an hour

fro1n 9 p . m. /7 7

M. J . O'Rahilly , J . J . O' Connell, Thos .

McDonagh,

The Ch ief Cormni s s i c»ner .


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McDonagh and J. Duggan in 2, Dawson St. ,

at 12-15 p. m.

Victor Collins left Harcourt Street •

.. Station by 4-30 p. m. train,, en route to

Gorey. R. I. C. informed. . .

M. W. O'Reilly with J. J. Walsh in

shop of the latter, Blessington St. bet-

ween 9 & 10 p. m.

Bul1ner Hobson, John. lvicDerrnott, l\;f . J.

O'Rahilly, J. J. O'Connell, Thomas MeDon-

agn, P. Ryan , J. Pluru{ett, E~ Kent, E. De

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Valera, C. Colbert, F. J. :McCabe , George

Irvine and J. O'Connor in 2, Dawson Street

for close on an hour from 8 p. m.

Attached is a Copy of this week's is-

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sue of The Spark which does not appear to .

contain anything deserving serious attent-

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VoL. II. No. so. DUBLIN, SUNDAY, JANUARY 16, 1916. PRICE 0NB HALFPBNNY

ENGLAND'S HEROES-orne in pi red \vomen in Ireland are seeking

. ubscription to raise a n1 morial to the Engli h,vo1nan, ~li.... Cavell, in the City of Dublin l~ospital, which rcfu e to hav an lrdshwoman a matron. Miss Ca~ell, who a ted as a secret agent for the Allie , under the protection of the nur e'. uniforn1, might be comn1etnorated along. ide of her countryman . ndre in tn1in er

bbey; but an Irish hospital-or an hospital of any kind-is the last place for her commemoration. By her action in using the uniform of the nur e to cover her political conspiraci s, he ... a rendered that once universally r spected unifonn . upe t no\v in every belligerent nation, and, con-equently, has hampered the hu1nane \Vork of

those women of all nations who incerely \vi h to alleviate the uffering- of \var. ertainly, above all cia sc , nurses and doctors have little reason to wish for a commemoration of Mjss Cavell.

England is the on1y nation which glorifies it spi s. In its Holy o~ Holi s a monum nt stands to the men1ory of the agent \vho seduced Bencdi~t Arnold to betray hi: ountry-happily \vithout . ucce "'. Arnold '"a one of vVa hington's mo:t capable general. in th aff· ir \Vhi h An1 rican hi. torians call the \Var of lndepend n e, and "The Patriotic Hi tory of J~ngland" tenns "the American Rebellion. He became embarrassed in his personal pecuniary affairs, and much embittered by the charges of some of his jealous countrymen. I n that moment .I:ngland tempted him 'vith her g-old to betray his native land, and the \\·retched man fell. Andre-"a Briti. h officer and a gentleman"-' as the infamou. aaent of h . f . b t e an amous transaction.

The m rican traitor arrano-ed \Vith th Eng·

I ish to dispose his arn1y at West Point in such a n1anner that when the English attacked it, it

· n1u t surrender or be annihilated. TJ1e possession of We t Point and the destruction of Arnold's anny ·' ould Jlave (1 ided the \var in England's favour, for \iV ashington, \vith his inferior forces, vvould have been u t off and could only, had he continu d t rc i. l, h'" e died fighting. The United State. \Vould never have come into exi tenc , and the portion of the world known by that title would to-day be an English possession, g·overned from l)O\\'ning tr · t and exploited for the Engli h n1er hant. .

1 he a i ng of the n.i ted States. On the night of epte1nber 21, I 78o, Andre

lipped into the An1erican lines to n1ake the final arrang·enl n1 for th ·rcat a "t of tr ach ry which \Va to d livet back re olt d An1crica into England ,s despot-grip. Arnold handed him the plans \vhi h 'vere to guide the English, and furnished hin1 with a passport to carry hitn back through the merican line . The Engli. h ag- nt, disgui~ed a. a ivilian, hnd alma t rea h d safety \vh n thr e young rncrican ·oldiers at a \\7ayside han1l t, d mand d to . e hi pa 8port. He produced it-it ati fi d their in. p tion, and he \Vas pas ing triumphant on hi. 'vay, \vh n one of th three, on a sudden itnpulse, urged his companions to follow the unusual course, in the ircumstances, of sear hing thi n1an with the satisfactory pa rt for cone aled papers. It \Va. done and Arnold's treason disclosed. Andre tried to bribe his captors to let him go-he was w 11 supplied with gold-bu~ in vain. . He was s cured, and th~ Unite 1 tate of menca came into being.


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Arnold fled into the English lines, and England ,vith her sublime assurance, demanded the rele~se of her secret service agent. The Americans replied by hanging him, and England thereupon canonised him as St. Andre the Martyr. Th~ English Press of 178o de~ribed him as Fa1thful, Honourable, Magnantmous, Intrepid and Candid- a hero-the beau-ideal of an English officer and a &'entl~man. .A·. for the Amer·icans who hanged hun-:tt promtsed a day of reckoning for the shedding of the martyred hero's bloo<:L But as America happened to \\'in th war George Washington, instead of becoming the English felon becan1e the head of a~ Independent State, and vengeance for Andre 1s postponed until that time looked forward to by all English statesmen, when the descendants of the American '' loyalists ', wh? fought a~ainst their country's independence, will succeed an subverting it and restore the States to England.

loyalty to the English Connection, and not to depend upon the promi ·es of that tyrannical Power with which England was at war-(it was France then)-for that Po\ver would destroy t·heir churches-it was an enemy to their reHgioncrush their liberties-for it was a military despotism- and betray those dupes of Am ricans who redited its promises.

''I \vish," t·he mis -- r ant '\\·rote, "to 1 ad a chosen band of AtnerJcans to the attainm nt of Peace, Liberty and Safety, and with them to share in the glory of re. cuing our native country from the grasping hand of Frnnce, as w 11 as fronl the anlbitiou . and inter sted vrews of a desperate party among ourselves, \vho have already brought this land to the very brink of destruction . . . Its security depends upon the exertions of England for its protection."

England buried her suborner's body in her \·athatla-Westminster Abbey-reared a monument there to his memory and appointed him an exemplar of English Honour to her youth, and an in~piration to .it to seek immortality 'by bribing a needy and distreS'sed wretch to betray his country, if they cannot seek it by other path:s. Most countries have agents whom men of honour cannot recogni e; but England is the only nation which glorifies them. Th~ trade of a public e ecutioner is a lawful one, but a country does not erect a monument to him dead. England builds in her pantmeon a monument to one whose trade was not less repugnant-perhaps, indeed, tnore ~the trade of him who buys a human being to sell his native land. Arnold and His Imitators.

Certainly 1:here is precedent for a memorial to Miss Cavell-in Westminster Abbey- England's Valhalla. And we shall add that, from the standpoint of common honour, she did not act so badly as the illustrious Englishman whose dust now mingles 'vith that of England's . tatesmen, kings, poets and sages. s I ha\''e mentioned the miserable Benedict · Arnold whom Andre was the agent in suborning, let me add that he anticipated some distinguished persons of our o\vn time. When he had gone over to the English he issued a manifesto to his countrymen assuring them that he -was the True Patriot, and Washington and his faction were the enemies of American liberty. He had fought England, he wrote, while England ~.nfticted injuries on his c()\lntry, but England now gave America no further just cause for compla1nt-"with the open arms of a paren.t she offers to embrace us as children and grant all needful redress"-the American Home Rule Bill was. on the Statute Book, as it were. It was the duty of all patriotic Americans, wrote the traitor, to show their

However, the Americans refused to see that France was their enemy and England their protector. vVith the aid of France they drove England out, and the American traitor, pensioned and sheltered in London, l~ived to see the country h~ sought to betray to England become free. He daed a remorseful and despairing man. So may die all those chosen by a people as their leaders against foreign tyrants who sell themselves to the tyranny, and seek to dupe the nation which trusted them into submitt,ing to the tyrant's wiles. Benedict Arnold is a name for ever infamous in the history of mankind. But he has had, like anany infamous men, desciples in other lands, including our own.

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" Th'e Bill is confined, as I have said, to the redemption of the promise given, and given, be it observed, exclusively to thos who er con· cerned or affected by Lord Derby's schem . It is therefore limited in area to Great Britain- to which and which alone Lord Derby's scheme applies.''

~lr. Asquith introducing Con cription Bill in British Hou c of Con1mons, 6-x- 16.

BECAUSE. " To include Irelan'd under a Conscription Bill would be sheer madness. ~ . . Those v.'ho know Ireland have no illusions with regard to the fatal eonsequences which would ftow from any attempt to coerce Irishmen. The history of coercion in Ireland is plain.',

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BELGIUM AND GRE'ECE.

Suppose that the Gcrn1ans had not entered .. B Jgium, and that their lines in !~~ranee extended

fron1 the Belgian to the S\viss frontier. Look at a olourcd map taking in France, England, Belgium, Holland, Switzerland and Western G rmany. Judge what \Vould be the position of the (;crman lin "'S in the vV est if they xt nded, say, from Montmedy to 1\tfulhausc. Would th Fr "'nch and the English have kept out of Belgium, 'vc1l kno\ving th;lt . a swift adYan through that country would have not alone the effect of turning the whole right 'ving of the German for s, but also of opening a \vay across the Rhine in the Cologne district? Our hypocrites say the Allies would n ver, und ~r any circumstances, haYc violated B lgian neutrality. 1 hey liP, and they kno\v that they lie. Look at Greece, and then try and picture '"hat England and 11 ranee \Vould hav done if bct\V n then1 and in,·asion of Germ:tny there only stood- Bclg-iun1.

Greece is an independent country. It has th right to go to \var or to remain n utral, just a. it p1eases. y· et, \vhat is the plight of this "small nationality" at the pre ent day? For all int )nls and purposes, England and France arc using it as if it \ver a yassal stat . l'hey haYc commandeered its railways. They haYc tctkcn OYer its rolling stock. English and I~ rench soldiers armed \Vith rifles are on e,·ery mile of the raih,·ays. English and F r nch soldiers- alien troops-are billeted on its citizens. Its ships ha,·e been pre-vented from sailing. Its pro\ isions are being eaten up by an army of occupation. Furthermore, England and Franc insist not only that Greece must put up \vith all this, but thnt ~~he must go to ''Tar to suit then1.

Yet this monstrous trcatn1ent of a sn1a1J and independent nation finds abundant support from a venal J rish Press t h;l t aln1ost. \Vent. into hvsterics over Belgiutn. i\: O\V the rnost the Germa-ns ever asked of the Rclg-i;tns ,,·ns to march through their roun1 ry. 'rhey "'·ere " ·illing to pay for a11 damag·e incurred in that march. They never asked Belgians al any time to fight for then1.

Yet look at. Greece. 7\Jot alone hav England an~l Franc mar h d through that ountry, cH~sptte the prot~st of its 1\:in~· and Parliam nt, but they insist on the (;r cks fighting for th n1 as \\·ell. .

Read this choic'e threat from the \Yonderful supporter of small nations, the " Irish 'J irnes '' :

" At. a mon1ent \Vh n imports by land are unattainable, Greece is Jess than ever self-supporting, and a very short period of stoppage of food supplies \Vould leave her utterly helpless. Partial tnough the llies ' coercive

measures at present may be, they represent, . nevertheless, a· sufficiently constricting grip to

a country situated as Greece is situated. Her l(ing is \Vell aware that this is only a sn1all foretaste of the ruin which the sea po,ver of the 1\1lies ruthlessly applied can at any n1om~nt inflict upon his country.' '-Leading article of the Irish Times, Tuesday, ~.ov. 23rd, 1915. Beautiful lan.guage that addreL. d to a sn1all

nationality. If the ''Irish l'imes'' \vas \vriting about Ireland in such a strain it \Vould be understandable, because this organ of the superior class has always regarded the mere Irish as savages; but \vhcn applied to a stnall nation on the Continent- one of thos stnall nations about which the English ne\vspap rs haYe gushed so mu h- it is passing strange to find the chang-e of tone. Perhaps it is only \vhen small nations are found fighting for the Empire th~t they have any rights at all. It is curious, too, to find that oth r nc\v-found lnYer of small nations-Russia ·-is to make a r qu ·st to Rumania to lYe allo,ved p rmission to march through so that Bulgaria may be nttacked. Russia, '"hom the Poles love, is an ... ious to mak the Bulgarians love her in the sarnc \vay- she has to be cruel to be kindbut in order to convince Rumania of her power, as 'veil as her \vill, to chastise the Bulgarians, she thinks it right to assemble a huge army on the Rutnanian frontier. nother way of making a small nationn lity " toe the line," for \vhich the Eng-lish Press is loud in its praise.

Frankly, is not all this loathsome hypocrisy of th~ l~nglish and the Rus. ians absolutely disgusting. The violation of Greek neutrality bY. the I~nglish \Vas glossed oYer by the defenders of Belgian neutrality on the ground that the Greeks " 'anted the EngJish in their country. It is a lie. 1~vcn \y enezclos protested against their coming·. \\

7 ould England have dared to act thus to t\merica or Japan? But I forgot- these arc not sn1all nationalities. <..;

'rhis bring-s me ba k to Bclgiun1 and the first par~~raph of this article. Let me suppose that the C~crmans hnd not entered Belg-iun1, :-tnd th:-11· they lay exposed on that side. Let n1e trv and c1 duce in a fc\v \vords frotn the example of \Vhat has happened '"ith Greece \vhat \vould ineYitabtv h<n· ~ happened in the case of B lgi un1. ·

In the first place, England for a tin1c " ·ould hayc concealed her real intentions in the \vav that \VC are- familiar " ·ith in Ir land. But E~glish gold \\'Ould soon be at \vork. It 'votild not b difli ult to get a rigged note in the Belgian Parliament. regarding the " ( 1Crn1an tn nace" on the frontier. If the King- of Belgium (like the I~ingof Greece) '\Vishcd to preserve his country's neutrality, he \vou1d first, probably, be stabhefl by nn nss~'ss!n~ just as thP Gre k l(ing 'vas last April; and if that did not succeed) it \Vo.uld b


r«alled hat is ife was married to a German Princess. In any event, English troops, with the aid of English gold, would find a pretext for landing on Belgian soil, just as they found a pr text for landing at alonica, de pite the oppo-ition of the Greek King and Government.

In this conn ti n it i ignificant that abso-lut 1y no fortifications re erected by the Belgian Go ernment again. t a landing of Engli h troop. on t.fl coa t line. Holland a.. more far- e~ing, and she kn w England bett r. Her coa t i w 11 guarded, and, as a result, the suggestion mad in the Engli h Pr ss early in the war that Germany '\ ould be attack d through Holland has not be n carried out.

Gree e, like Belgium, was not allowed by England to r t sea fortift ati•ns on it coa t line. The moral · s ob ious.

ben, therefore, the ne t hypocrite asks you about B lgium, a k him- hat of Greece? He may try to loud the i ue, but he cannot get o r the fact that Engli h troop ntered Greek t rritory, in spit of th prot t of the Gr k Go,· rnment. hat they ha e done in the case of re , th y outd, beyond the hadow of a doubt, ha e done also in th a. e of B lgium.

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The "J·,lly Brltona" baTe been h vine q &e.~ 11:ningslatterly. G rg Shaw, I suppo~e I h d better ideDtffy ·m "G.B. .,'' or you won't pay due respect to hia opinion, hal somewhere expreued the

lew that the ngtish are a erJ yateri< at and antimea I people ; at leaat in a com tiT sen • e h li•ed in t.helr mi t looger than haTe I, nd, per-hap-, t em bt tt•,..

J t • in tances of " Britiah'' " liTelin ' ve eome ucder my notice throqhout the holidays. One of them will iat t • 1 Graee the Bishop ot erry

ho has eompbuned of the Yigil ce of the Briti h nson in mutU tin~ hi ecele\ooiutical correepoadence.

One of tbe "C•naora'' of the Britie Govern nt wu proseeuted by girl for eummar, diallli • Be ept a fl•t and tir of the girl. The ma • t te e preutd aatoni hment th t each pti'IOD were in the Preas

UNa11. '' Cao · , ofticer, JOa know what tb011 " Can-

i are,'' dereliet •tona iDly bo can't ge& a jo , or whOM joba can't o t , ell, the C ·•

• ofti !ai to ooU " Do yo aot to ,..,-n fi~ ." nd th Bri i It eoll ague id ''• 1 t''

ell,'' id &be Lie nant, " I am oiug to kill a 1n•• on u 7 ni t 9, d I ant JOO to \'e

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You cannot have miFeed all d~e ea1e1 of Kheki curs who impose thtmrel ea on olDen u their hutoband • 1'here have bf en r,umbera of tueb caFeP. It ia quite a joke, quite a Briti•b'joke. Oh! we Britlab are de ilJ, yoa kao • ·

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Who i to be Dublin' Lord Mayor for 1916? r . Gallagher's husband seeks a econd year of office, and Johnnie Ronalne hopes be gets it. It's a paying job, thinks Johnnie •.

lderman -james Kelly, of whom it is said be cannot blu h, is also rumoured as a candidate. That t\vo such persons as GaUlgher and Kelly should divide chances for Dublin's MayoraLty i~ a damning reproach to the Dublin Corporation. Is ther no man of brains and manly vi~tue in the Corporation who can be trusted with the office?

• In a recent is u of the '' park." I had

occasion to refer to an after-dinner speech d li red at Bray by he Rev. Dr. Doherty, of t ro-Cathedral. It was a vile speech, and could

only be e plained by e amining into the ~. gentleman' ante edents. That the • • poherty 's rvice are appreciated in the a f!

as evidenced in the follo ing paragraph, hi h ap~ared last week in -the " lri h Till)es,' • in an arttcl dealing with the new unition Fa tor.)' in Dublin:

With such a large number of girl and women workers employed day and night, arrangements are in progress to secure their comfort and protection. Every girl worker wiU be supplied with a khaki outfit, and wilt be under the upervi ion of a matron. rty, t e

e • r. rt , of tlae Pro· Cathedral, D , Hen appolafed to tile o el atroa, and has already entered upon her duties in one of the preparation ntre •

I ~ommend this paragraph to the earnest attentaon of the mothers of ligibl young m n in the Bray di trict, ho ere at a lo. s to account for R v. Dr. Doherty's e traordinarv utt ranc s. .,


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