REBEL MOVEMENT.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 5, Issue 177, 26 May 1916, Page 1 (Supplement)

REBEL MOVEMENT.

QUIET PREPARATIONS. As indicating the quiet preparations made by certain dissatisfied sections in Ireland, the following Police Court report taken from the latest issue of the Dublin ''Weekly Freeman,"' is significant : At the Southern Court on March 15, John Shaw was charged with having been guilty of acts likely to prejudice discipline in the army by purchasing from Private McDonald, one of the Oth Jjancers, four rifles at i'2 lfls each. The evidence given showed that McDonald had been dealt with by tho military authorities. It was shown, in court that Shaw had been a mcmlier of the Irish Volunteers. Shaw was sentenced to .six months' imprisonment. That many people in Ireland did not think that the Sinn Fein would, cause the recent disturbance is shown by the following editorial from tho"'Weekly Free-man" of March IS:— One would have imagined that by this time tho British Government would have got tired of Dublin Castle, which lnus. m fact, always been the greatest enemy to the reconciliation of the twocountries. But no; the bad old influence of that vicious institution and its permanent officials still works injury to Ireland and England. It cannot be too strongly emphasised that the presence in Ireland of the idle and usele-w 11,000 well-trained constabulary men is the greatest of all hindrances to recruiting in this country. It is a farce to hold a recruiting meeting at which pcop'e will sty? any number of first-rate physical specimens in the shape of Royal Irish constables hanging around listening to the speeches, and then going home to tho barracks and their grub and trying to find ways to fill in time. People will argue all this talk about wanting men must be ruin bish, else the Government would very quickly lind a way of using the.se splendid specimens at the front. There are eleven thousand of them. Ireland docs not want at most more than half of them. Then if men are wanted in the armv, why are the superfluous 5000 noticed? There is no answer, and there will he no annwor until the 5000 nun have been embodied m Irish regiments.