The Irish Rebellion.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXXI, Issue 20, 12 August 1920, Page 5

The Irish Rebellion.

MANNIX INTERVIEWED. Im Press Association —Copyright, Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. London, August 10. In an interview, Archbishop Mannix stated:' "I am an Australian citizen who wishes to visit his native land after seven years Fpont in Australia. I thought it my duty, a s Archbishop of Melbourne, to stand by the weak against the strong, and I was therefore compelled to use my influence on behalf of the workers. Thus my name became associated with Labour politics. The Australian volunteers did more than their share to win the war." The interviewer asked: "Were you thpn in favor of recruiting and volunteering?" Archbishop Mannix replied—"l no man to go, and I asked no man to stay.'' Archbishop Mannix assailed Mr Hughes as defeated and discredited, and said he was feeling nervous because lie was losing hold on his office. The interviewer asked; "Do you contemplate taking part in the political agitation ?"—"I have made no plans.'' "Have you seen Mr Hughes' statement that your retur n to Australia may be difficult."—"Yes, but I am bound to return to Australia.' Mr Hughes is not my ecclesiastical superior." Archbishop • Mannix deplored Irish crime, but he said it was political. The

Irish people, he said, were the most crimeless in the world.

Archbishop iVuinnix added: "An Irish Republic is already in existence, and nothing should alter it except a change of opinion among the Irish themselves. You English people seem to agree that if Ireland asks for Dominion Home Rule it should be granted. It seems to follow logically that if Ireland asks for a Republic she is entitled to have it. The English say they cannot allow Ireland to he independent for strategical reasons. Germany might have said the same thing about Belgium, and Russia, might saya the same thing 'about Polar d. -Apparently some people in England think the prin. c'ple of self-determination should apply to our enemies,. but not to out friends." i,-j . •.' ,•'.' ■■<

NEW YORK PROPAGANDA, Press Association—Copyright, Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.; ' (Received 9.30 a.m.) **•!; New York, August 11. A m.ass meeting of protest against tho removal' of Archbishop 'Mannix from the steamer Baltic is called for Sunday in Madison Square Gardens, New York. STREAM OF CALLERS. Press Association —Copyright Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. London, August 10 An unending stream ot callers interviewed Archbishop Mannix all day long, and a crowd assembled in the evening outside Nazareth House, when Mannix delivered an address, concluding with a blessing 'and an appeal to' disperse quietly. It is understood that Mannix remains at Hammersmith resting for .a few days. His next mbv e is the closest secret. Detectives are keeping the closest watch outside the convent. Mannix said that since Jutland the British Navy had not scored a success comparable to the capture of the Archbishop of Melbourne, which was made without the loss of a British sailor. Mannix, wearing episcopal with a scarlet cap, posed for a cinema in the garden of Nazareth House. He walked backward and forward with stately bearing. Archbishop Vaughan remarked that this would he a good picture for Australia and America.