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Show ALL OF IRELAND AN ARMED CAMP i ISLAND RESEMBLES SECTOR IN FLANDERS, ENGLISH CORRESPONDENT COR-RESPONDENT SAYS. Steel Pill Boxes on the Railway Bridge Commanding Liberty Hall and Guards Walking the Streets at All Times. London. "All Ireland is organized and under arms," says the Daily Express, Ex-press, in commenting editorially on the disclosures of a special English correspondent cor-respondent who is investigating conditions condi-tions in that country. "It was like old times in Flanders, landing in Ireland," says the correspondent. corres-pondent. "I saw the familiar figures with tin hats and fixed bayonets guarding the battery of Kingston harbor. har-bor. A military airplane droned over- head and a train full of officers was just coming iu. "In Dublin I met tanks waddling from the castle; I found a steel pill box on the railway bridge commanding Liberty hall ; guards in full war kits were marching the streets. It might have been Arras in 1917. "From Dublin I got nearer the front line. Military precautions became more complete. At the railway station sta-tion soldiers entrained. Only one at a time was allowed to leave the ranks and no man is allowed to get to his rifle. "There is a piling up of arms in Ireland the soldiery knows what that means. If a girl speaks to a soldier she is put in Coventry by her friends. At the moving picture no native will sit beside a soldier he is ostracized. Civilians shadowed me and thoroughly' searched my luggage and bedroom to see if I had arms. "I sent a package of films to England Eng-land ; it never got there. On the other baud I was advised to use the republican repub-lican mail service on the ground that it was more rapid than the English post. Everywhere I went I was asked to buy the republican war loan. The republican uniform is flaunted openly in daylight. "Fifty mounted men, whose horses wore special 'shoes' to muffle the sound of galloping hoofs, took me out to the country after midnight, picking up recruits as they went along, and I saw a secret drill fiarded by armed sentries. Hundreds Lpon hundreds of disciplined men are picketing the country, coun-try, reporting the movements of the police and the military. The republicans republi-cans have a system of exchanging sig-mals sig-mals by lamp flashes." |
