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Show Id scenes tie place as mm boards j Australian Archbishop Both Cheered and Jeered As He Gets Ready to Sail. 1 PRESIDENT OF IRISH REPUBLIC IS PRESENT ! British Seamen Refuse to Sail If Prelate Is Among Passengers. NEW YORK, July 31 Archbishop Dnniel J Mannix. of Australia, sailed away for Ireland this afternoon on the steamship ltaltlc. although the premier pre-mier of Great Britain had announced! that the Australian prelate would not DC permuiei i' lann on irisn sou ue- cause of his expressed views on the lush question. Eam'onn de Valern. 'president of the Irish republic, " did not anil on the Baltic. Wearing a black coat and tall silk hat and carrying an American flag, the archbishop arrived at the pier to find a crowd of more than a thousand with an even greater number massed inside the lines and on the pier Itself. There was some antl-Mannix sentiment senti-ment among the crowd outside the pier, but this rapidly dissipated, while the throng assembled nearer the liner was distinctly pro-Mnnnlx Men. women wo-men and chlldrfn were there bearing signs with taunts directed at Lloyd George One road: "Admit that American public opinion opin-ion counts " CROWD GOES WOLD With police reserves making a wedge, the archbishop stepped rn?n, his machine and advarlcod with difficulty diffi-culty through the crowd. Which at the .-trains of a band, went wild wlt.i . nthuslasm After the prelate had mov-I mov-I 'd up tho gangplank, the throne surg-ed surg-ed forward after him and broke thru the first line of guards in an effort to follnw him aboard. The second lino also gave way. but the third held. The archbishop was visibly affected affect-ed by the demonstration. Pale from emotion, he advanced to the rail and replied time and time again to tho cheers which greeted him.. Accompanying the prelate were the I Rev. Albert Vaughn, his secretary, and Bishop Daniel Koley. of Australia. PISn l B DRAWN. A scene almost approaching a riot had followed tho hooting of tho archbishop arch-bishop by an Kngllsh passenger on the ship The longshoremen who scaled scal-ed the ship's side and attacked him with drawn revolvers broke through the crowd and reached the Englishman. English-man. Shortlv after his arrival the arch bishop issued a statement In which he said that he had been "represented in certain quarters as a promoted of I strife." He declared ho was working for peace in Ireland, inside and outside out-side the British empire Ho said the peace ho hoped for Is a peace not resting on force but on Justice and the free will of the people concern, d. " NEW YUKK. July 31. The wildest wild-est scene observed on the New York Water iront in many a day today marked arr ival at t he While Star piers ot Archbishop Danisl J. Mannix, of Australia, who Is to sail for the British Brit-ish isles this afternoon on ihc steamship steam-ship Baltic In the face of notification lrom Premier Eloyd George that he will not be allowed to land in the British Brit-ish Isles because of ills utterances on the Irish question. DE M l EC THERE Bamonn de Valero,, 'president of the Irish republic." was there He look his place on tho deck of the transatlantic liner beside the archbishop arch-bishop and smilingly refused to answer an-swer whether hie was the "distinguish- ed compatriot" who would sail for. Great Britain with the churchman, as! icported in dispatches received last night from London. At the pier men shouted and waved flugs of the Irish republic, women n amed hysterically and It took the entire force ofpicr guard;: augmented .by police reserves, to get the prelate aboard the ship and prevent a stampede stam-pede up the gangplank by admiring thousands, Several fights followed some Jeers directed at the archbishop and in one case several "brawny longshoremen clambered up the. sldo of tho vessel and thrashed a man on the upper deck i-.hr. V.... I l......l IllafMllnM 1 t si RIKE J.LK1 LY, NEW YOU K, July 81. Dissension among the crow of the steamship Baltic, Bal-tic, occasioned by the name of Arch-bluhop Arch-bluhop Daniel J. Mannix, of Australia, among the list of passengers, today gave rise to uncertainty as to whether the ship would sail for Quecnstown ind Liverpool at noon, as scheduled. PrbmiSCUOUJ arguments among the-Crem the-Crem concerning th Australian prelate's pre-late's prospective Voyage crystallized Into formal meetings early today of the National Conks' and Stewards' union and the Seamen's and Pin men's union which were to decide whal action, ac-tion, if any, would bo taken IRISH AMONG CREW. Among the crew aro many Irish or of Irish cent who claimed thai Archbishop Mannix should make the voyage as an honored guest of tin B Itic There is said to be an equal number who expressed the opinion that he. should not bo allowed to oall on a ship flying tho British flag The former gave desultory threats that if In- were not among the passt-rigora they would go on strike, and the latter uc. squally determined individually. 1 to prevent sailing it" he were numbered among the voyagers. If Eamonn de Valcra, "president of the Irish republic." Is tho "distinguished "distinguish-ed compatriot." who dispatches from London announced would sail today with Archbishop Mannix, he pparent-l pparent-l planned to board the Baltic bag-gagekss. bag-gagekss. At noon all his belongings were In his suite at the Waldorf Astoria As-toria hotel where lie arrived ltat nbjht. |