MR REDMOND

Timaru Herald, Volume CI, Issue 15455, 18 September 1914, Page 7

MR REDMOND

ISSUES PATRIOTIC MANIFESTO

SUGGESTS AN IRISH BRIGADE. FOR SERVICE ABROAD. Received 12.40 a.m.. Sept. IStli. LONDON, Sept. 17Mr Redmond in a manifesto to tho Irish people says ho is confident that Ireland will willingly share the burdens and sacrifices of a just war, -undertaken in tho defence of the sacred rights and liberties of nations with whom wo are much akin. Ho adds—■ '"Even when no ties of sympathy bound Britain and Ireland the latter gave her quota and more to the firing line." He suggests that Irish recruits shoxdd be formed into an Irish Brigade, officered as far as possible by Irishmen, thus enabling Ireland to gain national credit for their deeds, and to feel like other communities of the Empire that she had contributed an army bearing her name in this historic struggle. Simultaneously with the formation of the Brigade for service abroad our volunteers must be put into a stato of efficiency for the country's defence. Tims at tho end of the war Ireland would possess an army of which she could be proud. In concluding Mr Redmond appeals to his countrymen ( of different creed and political opinions to "accept the friendship wo have so consistently offered them, and allow a great war to swallow up all smaller issues; that as our soldiers are going to shed their blood and die at each other's side for the same high purpose, their union in the field may lead to union in their homo and their blood be the seal that will bring all Ireland together in one nation."