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Show GREAT HUMBEKOT 151 FRONT John E. Redmond Replies to Statement Regarding Duty of Ireland, i LONDON, Dee. S, S:10 p. m. Speaking at a great demonstration at Tuam, Ireland, Ire-land, today. .John K.' Redmond, leader of the Irish Nationalist party, replied to statements that Ireland was not doing her duty in the present crisis. He quoted official statistics showing that despite the fact that emigration had drawn from Ireland the flower of her population, there were serving with the military forces of the crown on November Novem-ber 30, 8?.ono Irishmen, who had been in tin; army before the war began, or who had join eil as reservists or recruits. If to that were added tens of thousands thou-sands of Irish recruits who were joining i lie colors in Great Britain, or were now in the ranks of the Canadian, Australian or New Zealand contingents, he said, it was safe to say that from 130,000 to 140,000 Irishmen were with the colors. Mr. Redmond declared that (52,000 of tho $9,000 Irishmen In the home army were Catholics. De said that 10,112 Ulster Ul-ster volunteers had gone to the colors from Belfast, while in the same city the Nationalist volunteers, who represented only a quarter of the population, had contributed con-tributed 3M3 men. This, he believed, was only the beginning of what Irishmen would do. Mr. Redmond said the men who opposed op-posed the treaty of peace between tho Nationalists and democracy of England, must be divided into ' separatists, Socialists Social-ists or com mon or garden cranks," but thu t they were not and never had been home rulers. When the constitutional movement had been brought to a triumphal trium-phal end and Ireland had her own pariia-! pariia-! ment, Lhey would disappear, he declared. |