IRELAND.
FARMERS HOLDING BACK
WOMEN' AS RAILWAY PORTERS. London, April 8. Of 442,475 efficient males of recruiting ago in Ireland, latest statistics disclose that 51,000 enlisted, 32,000 in Ulster and 20,000 in southern provinces. Agricultural labourers Have generally withheld. Farmers frankly admit that they are making large profits by the war. Few ajipcar to bo conscious of any special obligations to their country. Shop assistants often have tho spurious notion that social prestige precludes them from mixing with common soldiers.
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Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 2601, 9 April 1915, Page 2
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80IRELAND. Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 2601, 9 April 1915, Page 2
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