MR REDMOND'S VIEWS.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 11686, 1 May 1916, Page 1

MR REDMOND'S VIEWS.

! " HORROR i EIOST DESPAIR." ROME RULE INVIOLATE. ' By Telegraph.—Pr??s Assoaa'jon.—Copyrig-iit, . (Received May 1. 10.30 a.m.) LONDON. April 30. ! Mr Redmond. i:i an interview. said I. that his first feeling on hearing cf the Sinn Fciu revolt was one of horror, j discouragement and almost despair. In forty years Ireland had emerged from pauperism and slavery to prosis perity aiid freedom, and when war came she sided with liberty and democracy. . Any other course was impossible. " That same section which to-day was ' tho catspaw of Germany had throughout'the Home Rule struggle thwarted and opposed us. This wicked move is their last blow against Home Rule, which has been plotted, organised and paid hy Germany It is equivalent to a Gorman invasion of Ireland as cynical as that of Belgium. "It is not Germany's fault that Ireland is not a second Belgium. "What can I say of those,men in America who aided the movement, while they remained safo in their remoteness ? They are guilty of treason to America, which giveg them a home, and to Ireland, their birthplace." Mr Redmond comments on the fact that while the. Dublin .Fusiliers were heing shot in Dublin, the Irish Brigade retook the trenches at Loos. But the German plot had failed, and Home Rule was not destroyed and was indestructible. " ,_