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Show DEPOPULATING IRELAND. National Council of Dublin Seeks to Check Irish Emigration. Washington. In a letter addressed to President Taft, the national council coun-cil of Dublin bos appealed for rigid enforcement of American immigration immigra-tion lawa as a means of preventing further depopulation of Ireland by immigration. im-migration. Th council declares that Ireland has lost nearly half of Its people within the last slxty-thre years by "unnecesssry and abnormal" emigration, and that the obliteration of the Irish nation actually la threatened. threat-ened. It Is asserted that the British government gov-ernment views this prospect with "complacence or satisfaction." |