IRELAND’S SPLENDID LOYALTY.

Waipawa Mail, Volume XXXVI, Issue 7739, 22 June 1916, Page 1

IRELAND’S SPLENDID LOYALTY.

GERMAN BRIBES RESISTED. A glowing tribute to the splendid loyalty of Ireland has been paid in an interview with a representative of the New York "Times" by Mrs Flora O’Gorman, wife of the O’Gorman of County Clare, who has been serving at the front as a Red Cross nurse since the beginning of the war, and who is now in New York to raise funds for the military hospitals in France. "The few recalcitrant Irishmen here, who know nothing about it," said Mrs O’Gorman, "try to give the impression that Ireland is not loyal. I, who live in Ireland, and do know about it, tell you that Ireland is loyal and will do her full share to help England and France win this war. I thought possibly someone would ask me, so before leaving France I got my figures from my husband, the O’Gorman of County Clare, who is a colonel and staff officer of the British Army now at the front. There are said to be about 150,000 Irish soldiers now in the field, and about as many more have been recruited. DESPISED TRAITORS IN BERLIN. “Some thousands of the Irish have been taken as prisoners of war, and to each of them the Germans have offered freedom if he would renounce England and become a German soldier. They, too, seem to have the same mistaken idea that Ireland is not loyal. Well, of the thousands of Irish soldiers who have had the chance to buy freedom by treason only an insignificant number have availed themselves of it. I know that. I also learn, from a German officer whom I happened to know before the war and have since seen as a prisoner, that the most despised people in Berlin are those Irish traitors with the green harps on their German uniforms. There is no chance for them to get to the front, the German officer told me, because nobody trusts them. "My husband has served in the British Army for thirty-two years, and for twenty of those years I have been with him in every part of the British Empire. Always have we had Irish soldiers, and ahvavs have they been among the best. So I know the Irish at home and away from home, and nowhere dp they think of England as certain Irish in America would have you believe. ’ ’ —‘ l Central News. ’ ’