IRELAND IN THE WAR.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XL, Issue 11435, 27 November 1915, Page 5

IRELAND IN THE WAR.

NO LONGER SULLEN CINDERELLA. NEW DIVISION READY. MR J. REDMOND’S SON AN OFFICER. United Press Asssociation —By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. Received Nov. 27, 0 a.ru. London, Nov. 26. The Daily Chronicle states that the 16th All Irish Division is composed of Catholics, Nationalists and Ulster Protestants, and is commanded by General Parsons, it has completed its training and is ready for the front. Officers include Mr John Redmond’s son and his brother William. The Chronicle says Ireland is no longer the Cinderella of Europe, standing sullenly aloof. Her brigades do for England what General Sarsfield’s soldiers did in the war of Spanish succession and Delacy and his fellow Irishmen did for France at Fontenoy. Mr John Redmond says the completion of the new division shows the Kaiser’s flagrant miscalculation in counting on the hostility of the Green Isle towards Britain. For the first time in history Ireland was eager to do its full duty for the Empire which no longer stands for oppression hut for the independence of small nations and the freedom of the world.