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Show PREVENT IRISH FROM SAILING. Britons Resent Leaving Country to Escape Military Service. Liverpool. Nine hundred Irishmen who intended to sail for New York on Saturday on the Cunard line steamship steam-ship Saxonia, were prevented by the steamship company from taking passage. pass-age. The company declined to permit them to sail after there had keen several sev-eral stormy encounters with street crowds, which ' took the view that ablebodied men should not be permitted permit-ted to evade liability to military service serv-ice in this manner. The arrival of the Irishmen in Liverpool Liv-erpool drew a crowd outside the steamship offices. Two Irishmen were knocked down by women. Others were set upon and decorated with white feathers. |