LOYAL IRISH NATIONALISTS

Auckland Star, Volume XLVII, Issue 156, 1 July 1916, Page 13

LOYAL IRISH NATIONALISTS

The few misguided fanatics who; engineered tbe-Sinn Fein rebellion are in no sense representative of Irish feeling. The real Ireland is rather to be found among the gallant Irish troops at the front. In March last year Mr. William Hoey Kearney Redmond, MJ , ., brother of Mr. John Redmond, and here seen marching at the head of hie men, was gazetted a captain in an Irish regiment. In this connection we may recall what Mr. John Redmond said as to "the opinion of the overwhelming majority of the Irish people" regarding the Allied cause: "This was the opinion which thousands of Irish soldiers have

sealed with their blood by dying in the cause of the liberty of Ireland and of the world"; and, regarding the rebellion, "Is it not an additional horror that on the very day when we hear that men of the Dublin Fusiliers have been killed by Irishmen in the streets of Dublin, we receive the news of how the men of the lGth Division—our own Irish Brigade, and of the same Dublin Fusiliers— had dashed forward and by their unconquerable bravery retaken the trenches that the Germans had won at Hulluch?"

(Drawn by S. Begg from the War Office Official , Film.) —"Illustrated London News."