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Show AMERICA TW MO IN IRELAND Entrance Into War Widely Heralded and Catholic Americans Am-ericans Held as Examples. DLBLIN, Aug. 5.- (Correspondence of tho Associated Press-) America's parl.c.pation in the war is the trump card used by the Irish recruiting council coun-cil foimed to nut itito effect thy government's gov-ernment's off?i (o j'.ecept 50,000 voluntary volun-tary recruits from Ii eland in pla. of three or four times that numOur of consctipts. They are publishing widely the declarations dec-larations of American cardinals, archbishops arch-bishops and bishops and evidence of cordial participnlon in I he Avar bv Irish Catholic Americans. They point out that the war is as much America's and France's as it is England's and urge Irishmen to take a fair share in it. So far, they seem lo have mado only a slight impression. Nationalists declare de-clare that if Ireland is lo take an active ac-tive part in the war it must first have home rule. Tho Ulster party is willing to accept conscription. According to the latest announcement announce-ment of the government policy tho result re-sult may be three months hence, tho forcible application, of conscription everywhere in Iroland outside northeast north-east Ulster. It has been decided' lo divide Iroland into ten -areas and lo apportion to each the share of the fifty fif-ty thousand recruits it ought to furnish. fur-nish. Any area which furnishes its quota will bo held to have satisfied the claim upon it, and will be thonce-forth thonce-forth free from the application of conscription. con-scription. It is regarded as certain Ihnl Belfast and the northeast area will readily provide its shnre of the voluntary volun-tary recruits, and doubted whether any other part of Ireland will do so. The result would bo 'hat the only part of Ireland which now declares Its willingness to accept conscription would be the only part free from it The rest of Ireland would be a chaos of violent opposition and resistance. nn |