FAITH BEFORE FOOD

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 8560, 24 October 1913, Page 7

FAITH BEFORE FOOD

STARVING DUBLIN CHILDREN NOT ALLOWED TO GO TO ENGLAND. By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright LONDON, October 22. Tho Catholic authorities in Dublin arc greatly alarmed at the proposal to send a number of tho strikers’ children to bo tended in England, because they would possibly not be brought up in the Catholic faith. Despite an injunction by the Most Rev. Dr Walsh, Catholic Archbishop of Dublin, against the dispatch of the strikers’ children to England, on the around that their faith would be endangered, fifty were about to leave, when priests intervened, and induced the majority to return home. Women dragged the remainder from tho steamer. LARKIN AND PRIESTS IN CONFLICT. “WE WON’T BE ENGLISH CHILDREN.” (Received October 23, 11.55 p.m.) LONDON, October 23. Airs Montefiore, who was managing the deportation scheme, collected fifty boya and girls in Dublin and bathed them and dressed them in new clothes. The mothers followed them to the baths and notified tho priests. The latter, in impassioned tones, protested that the children were being sent to atheistic and Socialistic homes in England. Most of tho children thereupon left Airs Montefiore, shouting:—“We won’t be English children.” A number of the children were hustled aboard the steamer, where the priests renewed the scenes and rescued some. Finally fifteen children sailed. Larkin, the strike leader, in Liberty Hall urged the parents to allow their children to go.