DUBLIN CHILDREN
DEPORTATION TO ENGLAND STRONG OBJECTION SCENES ON THE WHARF. (By Telegraph.— Press Association.— Copyright.) LONDON, 23rd October. Mrs. Montefiore, who is managing the scheme for the sending to England of children of Dublin strikers, had collected fifty boys and girts, bathed them, and dressed theni in hew clothes. Tho mothers followed them to the baths, and then notified the priests, who, in impassioned tones, protested against the children being sent to atheistic and Socialistic homes in England. Most of the children then left Mrs. Montefiore, shouting : "We won't be English children." A number of the children were hustled on board the steamer, where the priests l'enewed their protests, ahd rescued some of them. Finally, fifteen children sailed. Larkin, the strike leader, speal&ng at Liberty Hall, urged the parents to allow their children to go.
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXVI, Issue 100, 24 October 1913, Page 7
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