AN IRISH-AMERICAN ARMY.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXIII, Issue 42, 14 February 1896, Page 27

AN IRISH-AMERICAN ARMY.

Our excellent contemporary, the Boston Pilot, thus refers to an announcement which was wired to thfS3 colonies :— " The startling news comes from New York that ' an Irish-American army ' of formidable proportions has been organised, and will be drilled and armed with the best modern weapoas— ill in tho deepest secrecy, of cuursp. The members must all be ' Catholics and Olan-na-Gael men.' In order to avoid public notice and bo preserve absolute secrecy as to their movements, they will wear a Btriking uniform, and will march in a body to attend Mass on St Patrick's Day I If these precautions should not suffice to conceal their ii entity, they may hold a secret convention in Central Park Borne afternoon. It looks very much as if Bomebody has been playing a practical joke on the newspapers, or possibly anothar Li Caron or McDermott is trying to earn a fee from the British secret service fuud by imagining the neve army. When Clan-na-Gael men have a scheme to carry out they do not shriek in from the house-tops nor confide it to the reporters ; but they would be heard from if • England's difficulty ' offered Ireland's opportunity tomorrow."