EMPIRE UNITY

Wairarapa Times-Age, 7 September 1939, Page 6

EMPIRE UNITY

NEEDED IN SUPREME EMERGENCY. APPEAL BY IRISHMEN IN SAMOA. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. APIA, September 5. An appeal signed by Irishmen and people of Irish descent resident in Western Samoa is to be sent to the Prime Minister, Mr Savage, in Wellington and thence forwarded to other countries with the request that they assist. It states: — “In these disturbing days of war in which the forces of terrorism and fury have been let loose upon the world, and in which the future of civilisation which we hold so dear is beset, we being native sons of Eire or persons of Irish descent living overseas do earnestly appeal to those of our countrymen who are members of the Irish Republican Army to refrain from hostile or subversive activities directed against the British Crown and Empire. “We feel that in these grave days in which aggression and oppression are rife, a united British Empire is indispensable to the combating of those forces of evil which obviously not only seek to destroy it and its people but which also, we believe, are directed to overthrow Christianity.

"We also urge all Irishmen throughout the world, whether resident in the British Empire or in foreign lands, to further our cause by publishing and disseminating our appeal which we fee) confident will not be made in r ain."