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Show Allies Grateful to the U.S. (I S3 jj j p Lady Kingston Visits City "D IGHT HONORABLE THE COUNTESS OF KINGSTON, . who will be a visitor in Salt Lake City during this week. I' A4A s ' I'M ' MfA t Ym ; . W - ' ' s yM - Z ft. 4 ' 'v wt I h ' ' AwA ' Ym ' "i k. . :y ' ' ; ' 111! W-U 'vs.- .v fw w4 has been an inspiration which will win the war. for democracy." Lady Kingston will spend the present pres-ent week in Salt Lake m the interest of the Shamrock fund for disabled Irish soldiers and sailors of all religions. The countess is the wife of the. Earl of Kingston, descended from one of the oldest of Irish earldoms, the title having, hav-ing, first been couf erred during the reign of Queen Elizabeth. The Earl of Kingston was wounded at the battle of Yprcs in October, 1914, and he 'is now among the permanently disabled. .The only son of Countess "Kingston is the Viscount of Kingsborough, who left Eton, England, last summer 1 for -the front aDd is now fit'htins- with the Declares Americans Are an Inspiration to People of France. I NGLAND, Prance and Ireland jL cannot ,be too grateful to the I j Americans who already have sent the flower of their youth in the trenches," said Eight Honorable Hon-orable the Countess of Kingston yesterday, yes-terday, fand their arrival in France submarines. She returned to England badly shattered, with her funnels shot away indeed it was a miracle that she returned at all but her work was not yet finished. Filled with concrete she was taken to Ostend, and today she lies beneath the waves, permanently closing up the entrance to the harbor and effectively blocking the channel. One of the best pictures in the collection col-lection is that of Albert Church, show-, ing the statue of the Blessed Virgin knocked over by a shell, but still suspended sus-pended over the town. Tradition has it that when the statue falls the war will end. In one of the showcases are beautiful fragments of marble and colored glass from this church picked up and loaned by Brigadier-General Sir William Hickie. Replicas of Medals. Of special interest are exact replicas of the medal struck in Germany ti commemorate com-memorate the sinking of the Lusitania. One side depicts the sinking of the vessel, ves-sel, the reverse side Death selling tickets to would-be passengers. This medal is dated two days previous to the actual date of sinking. Portions of Zeppelin wreckage brought down near London also form an interesting part of the exhibit. Admission to the exhibit is free, but voluntary contributions to the Shamrock fund a"re gratefully received. The Countess Coun-tess of Kingston, vice president of the Soldiers and Sailors' Help society in Dublin, is raising this fund for the purpose pur-pose of enabling every disabled Irish soldier to learn a useful trade. There are already 3500 of these men registered regis-tered with the bureau in Dublin, which, in co-operation with the British ministry minis-try of pensions, sees to their welfare. The trades are taught in villas erected in the grounds of Leopardstown park, county Dublin, a beautiful home recently re-cently donated to the British ministry of pensions for this purpose. The old house will be permanently used as a soldiers' home, and on the grounds of 100 acres space will be found a market mar-ket garden, worked by the soldiers themselves. Here also the men will receive re-ceive instruction in basket-making, carpentry, car-pentry, boot making and many other occupations oc-cupations according to their tastes and qualifications. Many of the discharged soldiers are too badiy wounded ever to return to their former occupations, while others had no former occupation, and for these I lie opportunity to learn a trade is an incalculable blessing. At the exhibit may be seen many pictures of limbless men engaged in useful occupations in which they have received instruction through the Shamrock fund; and it is hoped that all visitors will show their sympathy, with this great work by securing se-curing one of the little Shamrock pins which the Countess of Kingston offers in return for a donation to the fund. Scotch Grays. Lady Kingston has been doing war work since October, 1914, beginning by caring for the wives, children and mothers moth-ers of solders at the front, as well as other dependents of those who joined the colors from the town of feoyle, county of Koscommon, Ireland. The entire population of the town is 240U, and 30U volunteered at the outbreak of the war. Today, said Lady Kingston, ; there is not an able bodied man left in j the town, and many of those who went j to the front are prisoners in Germany. 1 "I would like to correct the impreS- sion which seems to prevail in the Unit- j ed States regarding the part which Ire- ' land has taken in the war. We are ! proud of the fact that 17U.U00 Irishmen have volunteered to fight, and this does not include those in the army or the reserve re-serve when the war began or the Irishmen Irish-men in the' English, Canadian or New Zealand armies. There are now in the allied armies of Europe more than 500,-; 000 Irishmen. Irish Sacrificing. "The industries of Ireland are doing' their part," continued the countess, "and the people are sacrificing as they . are in America, only perhaps, to a greater extent. The entire linen industry indus-try is now given over to the war, and ; every yard of linen fabric is being used for the making of airplanes. No more handkerchiefs are being made, and linen 1 for lingerie is out of the question. It cannot be had for any price. Linen table cloths are no longer being woven and are becoming scarce. "In the fishing towns there are few men and the fishing industry is -being carried on by the women, The women are also doing the work in the fields and taking the places of men in the factories. fac-tories. The women of Ireland are doing do-ing their part nobly." The countess will greet visitors all during the week at the Irish war exhibit ex-hibit on the third floor of the Keith-O'Brien Keith-O'Brien store. The collection of curios and pictures, which Lady Kingston brought to the United States includes official photographs taken on all the battlelTonts, at j.sca, and in the air. In presenting the Irish war exhibit the countess has the approval of Cardinal Car-dinal Gibbous of Baltimore; Cardinal Logue. primate of Ireland; Sir James' Gallagher, ox-lord mayor of Lniblin, chairman of the war pensions committee and distressed committee, and of many other prominent Irishmen. In the exhibit; are many articles of interest captured from the Germans by various 1 rish. regiments, including a genuine iron cross taken by Private Healv of the Connnnght Rangers, and loaned bv Brigadier-General Sir William Hickie, K. C. B. commandery, Irish division. di-vision. Has Noted Flag. The exhibit includes the Union ,7ack carried by Viscount Krcmli of Yprcs as rommander-in-chict of the British armv during the first two years of the war; German time and percussing fuses, an aerial torpedo, a Gorman officer's dagger, dag-ger, a Bulgarian war knife, and the certified cer-tified copy oi a t'-lcrarn sent by the discharged Irish soldiers in Bublin to Sir Boutins I fti ig, commander-in-chief of the British "forces dim nil the heavy lighting in March of this year, together with the original telegram bearing his reply. Perhaps the most wonderful of all the trophies is a 'portion of the bridge and switch for fighting lights from, the Bri;-ish Bri;-ish shop "Vindictive," whose story will L'O down into history anion u t h,; mo-l L'lorions traditions of the British navy. The 1 V'indict i vc " landed 1 lie ma rtnes on the mole at Zec!irtigure the night the harbor there was bottled up and rendered ren-dered useless as a base for German |