The Irish Volunteer - Volume 2 - Number 16

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Every state claims the right to exercise more or less of a miFtary censorship in time of war to prevent the publication of things which are· rightly or wrongJy judged to be hurtful° to the m[iitary ope~ations in hand or in · coi1templation. · A political censorship exercised in the interest of a government's domest1c policy is a different matter; it is exercised only by tyrapnical or cowardly .governments.

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I ·have now complete proof that the Lib~ral Home Rule Government, in this se.cond year of the New Era, with Home Rule on the Statute Book, has sought to suppress this paper for purely political reasons, because this paper .insists that the Government must be held to its original" pledges, embodied by the Governm~nt itself in the Horne Rule Bill, and keept in this ·form for two y•ears before the eyes of the Irish electorate, est~blishing an understanding on the strength of whi~h the Go\'.ern.ment came into power and ·was kept in power.

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prov:ed to 'the hilt that thi~ attempt was set on foot as a p urely political measure at~d not as a military measure.

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Military m:en, who have their duty to do, are The Irish Volunteers of -Cork an·d the surmost unworthily treated ~vhen they are required by the Liberal. Home. Rule Government"to do rounding. districts '"ere ·a · fine muster of ~en, its dirty wor~ in politics . It is exactly twelve a!1d bore themselves li.ke men. -Their dispt~y,, .months now since· the Sniugs professed to be the" Cork Examiner." avcnvs~ was" cre<li"tal>le," deeply shocked at the political attitude taken and Mr. O'Brieri's ·orgati, . no more .p.artia(to up by certain offioers at the Curragh Camp. the Irish Volunteers, ·said tliat · their numbers People are beginning to think that Sir Edward took the citizens of Cork by surprise.' "F'rom Carson knew what he .\~as talking about when, what I could obser\·e, their. efficiency and the in speech after speech, he described the Home progress made i.n their .training are more n·ote" · ·· · Rule J?Olicy of the present Government as " a woithy still. hypocritical sham." Noboay \Y-ill deny that * Temporary estrange~ent will not prevent the Sir Edward Carson had exceptional sources of information. Though the Government was Irish Volunteers in· Dublin ancl · else\Vhere playing into his hand, he could not conceal his from looking with satisfaction oil the project contempt for the sort of game they played. of a large muster of the National Volnnteers in Iris11 Nationalists cannot expect much sympathy Dublin at Easter. There is one unsatisfactory in British military circles, but we are free to ·feature in the undertaking, the expenditure of .st'.ggest that the army may~ weil · leave the a large aromit of money in a way tliat · dn ' hardly .be«s·ai.d to lead to increased efficienc'y'politicians to do their own dir.ty. work. at all events the same''expenditure on training * * * I was in Cork for · Patrick's D ay. The and equipment ·woula be •imn1easutabiy more evening before, having had the .usual send-off fruitful. . *' * . * at one r::i.ilway terminus and receptiOf! at the

The attempted suprression of .this paper has ·not the _remotest connection with the regulations other terminus . arranged· for me by Dublin · under the Defonce · of the R ealm Act. · Not- . Castle, I addressed a public rneetin~ in the withstai1ding anything that Mr. Tennant, streets of Cork, and got a good hearing for Under. Secretary for War has suggested to the what I had to say about this Liberal Home Next day, the Irish contra:ry, I have never ~eceived any warning or Rule Government.

Volunteers formed the main part of a great even hint that a single line in the IRISH proce~siori. in honour of the National Apostle.

VOLUNTEER was ·or appeared to be in contravenThe whole population of Cork appeared to tion of the regul a6ons under t.he Defence of line the route of the procession. It would. be the Realm · Act. to much to claim that all the thousands of on* * * lookers were strorig adherents of the cause for It is now evident that, whatever the military which we stand, but from first to finish, the ·authorities had in ·~nd, the · political side of turn out was received with Iris\1 Volunteer the Government, while they ostensibly stopped , Mr .. Mahon's pr~nting works ir.i order to prevent respect and honour. At many points it was the publication of " Scissors <tnd Paste,'' hoped greeted with enthusiasm, and from the women at the same . time to sUence the. political ·especially we heard . frequeqt cries of · " God criticism Qf the IRISH VoLUNTEER. They made bless ye! " It may be that we a re coming into no. complaint against ·t he IRISH VoLUNTEER, ·a New Era, which-is not the Ne w Era of .th('! ·but ~~he~ th~y foui1d that this ..riaper, was being · Smugs, of · brighUspettery · and free-g-ifter-y pcin.Led by another printer they immediately. plam::ts. It will ·be a ; firoof o:f ne w moral ·~ndeavoured to.. stop ' its publication . .tt can .·be strengtli i:n..Jrelarid 1irheici:, even 1.i1 an acute .and

But it is a good thing for· Volonteer'i. to c6~11c fogether in large numbers from ·man)< pattS of Ireland, a:nd to feel in common· the· purpose ·which calls upon them and · the· potential ·strength of their organisation. We · may have ·confidence that · the sense of · power tli.u s generated will be an effective antidote to the sense of weakness that ·comes fronf external causes. · Let us hope that the N·ational Volunteers will ·answer the call of'" the:ir headquarters as far as possible. No friend of · Ireland wil1 rejoice to find thern slacken1ng in the matter of ·ahenda'.nce, discipline; "tr"d i11i1ig or equir>i:nent.

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No false imp~;t~1~;~ ~ho~ld. be ai tallh_!!d to 'humours \vhich have been prominenUY)11:. ~ir· 'culation . in various quarte~s-. to the effect,tl'lanhe · Governrnent' ·intends to put aj1 emf to all · voltfntee ring in TfeEi'nd ·:J)y · takir;g over <:o~rnl of s ucl:i ·Volt!nJeet~s as ;}I~ willing .t~.;. ~ taken

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0~~Y, 9;i:ibt ~1 hJ°rh~r i~ i~ •br~lze1Sr e.nou~fi ·. ~o· t:. :: -~ a#~mB~ *:~t6~k ~f ;1his~~l.nd, '~hie~; c~utd :_ ~ri~y , ' ; ·. llY :A~ NEWMAN, . ~'<i've for, i~s objec;t' t() destroy.:the natiorial forces Al!thor of "-The Pessimist,'' &c. ~-ri,d: 11,lflce: the "'.hole coun'~ey at the ineniy · of · (r) Now it cam~ to _pass in those d<:LJS tbal ;i:frm:ed~ h9stility.

Job.n _the son uf J.\Mi;nond took with him fifty, \ l:'

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s·ome colour might be given to this prospect l>y a reading of Mr. Redmond's rec~nt ·s-r»eeuh' at Manchester. Mr. R edmond nd'~ ::i:dmits· 1 hilt··· the Government, which . joined ..,in . the delusive s~ow of extravagant welcome to his spOO<::fi Augus{ 3rd., \in reality treated that -.rleclai:ation.~with contempt. On August 3rd, i~1 the House of Commons·, •Sir Edward Grey prepared the opening for Mr. Redmond by hi s sig~ificailt a1;d till ' then unexplained allusion ·. I to Ireland as "the one bright spot/' and Mr. Redmond ful filled the ·allusion by declaring that, if the British Army were withdrawn from Ifeland, the · Volunteers of Ireland would undertake the defence of ·Ireland against invasion. Tremendous Liberal cheers, in which the Ministers joined, greeted the declaration , wh~ch, on the testimony of '·a competent eyewft~ess , ~a~ received on ,the Unionist side with . "cries of triumph. " H aving thus publicly ·accl~imed Mr. Redmond's declaration, the 'G'overnment at once . went about privately to bring ·it to notqing, as is now confessed.

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Speaking at Manchester, Mr. Redmond ii;idicatep. that he had been in recent conference with the authorities, and he outlined a fresh ".~offy.~," . w~ich . we musv suppose to .. be in · c9I).sequence:. We ha_ve not yet heard what the ..Q-qverni;nel}t is proposing, but it may seem almost su.perfiuo~1~ to w,arn all concerned .!hat _any step which ~-I.d_ we~ken Irish and National control over the Volunteers would be ,• . ' ' . disastrous in more than one way.

It would destroy all the enthusiasm and voluntary spi_rit, without which the Volunteers will never en~ble the Govern,hold together. It would ,, · . ' ment _ to ,strengthen its connectipn with the Uniopists. Let .those who may be.inclined to tr:ust . the .Govermnent remember that the Go,vernment, which stood ]_)leclged for ' several yean to the terms of the Holl1e Rule Bill, ~ow stands plecjged to the oppone~ts of Home Rule · in one vital particular. -Mere distrust, howe,v~r, might .cause Volunteers to take a weak and qan.gero~s .l.ine'. , T4ey sho~ld trust themselves, ' stand firm, and. stand together, asserting, ,with ~ M·r . Dill~~' th~ ri ght of Irishmen to undert~ke in arms the defence of Irish rights and liberties. '

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:· qiie score and .tei1 !llen, ;;i.nd sat for in~ny days a t Westminster begging for the defoietance of his · p~ple. And he said within himself: Yea r sh~ll continue as a.' beggar unto the end of my days, yet _will I not take into mine !1:and an instrument of war, or strive to deliver the land of Erin with my strong right arm. ' I shall even . utter great words, .when, peradventure, the Saxon may hearken.

(2) But the Saxon hardened ' his heart against the people of Eri;1; and Jobi1 the son of lZedmoncl and his fifty, one score and ten men tarried for many clays at Westminster, lx~gging for the deliverance of their people; yea for thirty and five years .

(3) Now · it came to pass that the Saxons .strove one with another, saying: Suffer me to sit at Westminster. And John the son of R edmond and his fifty, one score and ten men joined themselves to those who prevailed, whose leader was one H erbert the Asquith. And J ohn said unto H erbert the Asquith: If peradventure thou wilt deliver my people from bondage, I and my men will help you, even my fifty, one score and ten men of Erin.

And H erbert the Asquith said unto John the son of Redmond : Wait arid see ! . (4) TheIJ Herbert the Asquith called his wise men unto him and said: T~ll me, I pray you, what we shall do unto tbese men who beg ..continually?

And they answered and said unto hi~: Give alms ~nto those. who · beg! So Herbert th~ Asquith ~ave unto John the son of Redmond and unto his fifty, · one . score and ten men, four hundred pieces of gol_d , to each man his , portion; and he took therefrom the King's tax.

And John called his fifty-one score and (en .men unto him, and said: Tell me, I pray you, whq.t we shall do n9W that · H erbert the Asquith hath given unto us four hundred pieces of gold ? And they answered him, and said: We shall give each of us fifty pieces of gold, . to be laid up in the treasury of Erin, lest the people turn and re~d us.

And John the son of Redmond said unto . them: Verily, ye have .answered wisely.

And behold John and they that were with him tarried at Westminster many days, and gave succour . unto H erbert the Asquith; but

Sattitday, March 27th, 19t.5. the people were not delivered from bondage.

(5) Then ·_arose Eoin the . son of Neill, a troubler,.. ·and others witQ. him, among whom we~e The-<)'R~hllJ y, a man called P.ierce, an<l one Bul rp.et the Hobson, and cried with a 'loud vt>ice, l:i.e: and Rodger the Casement, ari.d said: Arin yourselves ! be strong; be men; and the Sitxon shall' hearken unto you ; neither shall they' .that follow Edward tbe Carson and diver~ fierce ·me~1 of the North triumph OV\::r you! ' Aiid tb~y. put. courage into the hearts of the people; and they gathered together instruments . of war, and .tl1e re was much noise of marching in the land.

(6) Then it <>ame to pass that H erbe1:t the Asquith gave ul).to John the .son of Redmond a scrap of paBer, saying: Thou shalt ·be utterly amended! · And John called his fifty, one score and ten, men, privily, unto him, and ·said: We are betrayed into the hands of Edward the Carson and into the hands of divers fierce men of the North! Nevertheless I shall put my trust in H erbert the 1\.squith before the people of Erin; but in mine heart I shall call.him a betrayer.

Behold, this hath been uttered by me. in the chamber; take heed, therefore, that ye cry it not from the bousetOJ)S ! ( 7) And John the son of R_edmond said within himself: Peradventure this Eoin the troubler may compel Herbert the Asquith to hearken unto him, though he hath betrayed me and refuseth to pay heed unto my voice. And it shall be that Herbert the Asquith may look upon Eoin, and upon all .the men with him, and upon their instruments of war, and shall fear greatly in his heart, and my people shall be delivered from bondage. Then shall the glory pass from me, and men shall point at me the finger · of scorh, saying: Let . him ' that beggeth mercy from the Saxon expect nothing; but let him that demandeth by force prepare to receive justice.

(8) So John arose and caused dissention in the land, and drew unto himself many of the armed men, whose instruments of war had cost much blood, even the blood of women and children shed in the streets. And he said within himself: Yea, I shall utterly overthrow this Eoin, who is a troubler of the peace, ·he and all that follow after him; and I and my fifty, one-score and ten, men shall dwell at Westminster, taking alms from the Saxon, unto the encl of our days. .; So John the son of Redmond slept viith his fathers, and Joseph the Devlin reigned in his stead.

That kind of history is never goittg to be written iii Ireland again.

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possibly. in very hot weather, one canteen ·of wa ter shoul rl last fo r· the entire day's· nrnrch.

Canteens will not be .refilled in the march without authority from the officer, as the clearest water, whether from ·a well, a spring, or a running stream, may ·be very impure and the !._:__RULES FOR MARCHES . source of many camp diseases. A ~ mall pebble The principal work of troops in the field con- carried in the mouth ~eps it moist, and, theresists of marching. Battles take place only at fore, reduces thirst. Smoking .is very depr:esindefinite intervals, but marches are of daily sing during a march. occurrence. It is only by good marching that At every halt get all the rest possible and troops can arrive at a given point at a given don't spend the time wandering around or time and in good condition for battle. standing about. On! y green recruits do thi~ .

The rate of marching depends greatly upon If the ground is dry, stretch out at full length, the condition of the roads and the weather, but and get in as comfortable a position as possible. the ave.rage rate for infantry is about 2~ miles The next best way is to sit down with a good per hour. This allows for a rest of ten minutes back rest against a tree or fence or some other each· hour. The total distance marched in a object. Neyer sit down or li e down, however,. day depends not only on the rate of march~ but on wet or damp ground. .

Do not leave the immediate vi cinity of your upon the size of the command, large commands place in ranks without permission. If canteens often cove ring only about 10 miles a day , while be refilled:, a de tail is generally made for are to small commands ,easily coveF double that disthis purpose. tance.

T ake care of your f eet. A n::ian cannot In order to make the march with the greatest march with sore fee t, and marchin rr is the main comfort and the least danger it is necessary ". part of a soldier's daily duty. The Germans that each unit be kept well in hand. Each man is permitted and encouraged to make himself treat sore feet as a military offence , .as it is as comfortable as possible at all times, except- generally due to carelessness or neglect on the ing only that he must not interfere with· the part of the soldier. Wash and dry the feet comfort of others or with the march of the carefully at the end of every day's mar~h. This removes the dirt and perspiration and makes the column. skin healthy. It soothes the feet and greatly Infantry generally march in columns of lessens t.he ·cbance of sores and chaffing. If the fours, but on narrow roads or trails column of skin is tender or the feet perspire. £reel y, was.h two or files is used. The route step is habituwith warm salt water or alum water. For raw ally used when silence is not required. In large or chafed spots use foot . riowder. Grease, or commands, in order that the column be kept in soap; or foot powder applied to the f oot or the hand, it is very necessary that each man keep stocking before starting on .the march prevents his place in ranks and follow bis file leader rubbing. Cut the toe-~ails squire (fairly close at tlze prescribed distance. This is one of the in the middle), but 'leaving the sides somew4at best tests for determining · the discipline and longer, as this preventp ingrowing nails. If efficiency of troops. The equipment should be corns or bunions or 'ingrowing nails give trouble ca:refully adjusted before starting out, and any or any rawness or rubbing causes pain, go for part that is not comfortable should be readvice. Don't wait several days till you can arranged a t the first opportunity. The rifle is. no longer march. Don't wear stockings full of carried at will, except that the muzzle must be holes. Should a hole or a seam in the stocking pointed up so as not to interfere with the other begin to cause rubbing, turn .it inside out or men. change it to the other foot.· Be careful in tryUnder no circumstances will any man leave ing boots to get a good ~t . Don't be so foolish the ranks without permission from his company as to start out to march wearing new boots, or higher commander. If the absence is to be light boots, low boots, or patent~leather boots. for more than a ·s hort while, he must be given Keep the mar~hing boots well oiled to keep a pass showing his name, rank, and organisathem soft and pliable. If they get. full of sa~d tion, and the reason he is permitted to be on the march wash out the inside and then hang absent. In any case, the s~ldier ke~ps his rifle on a couple of pegs overnight to drain. They anrl equi.pm()nt with him, if possible. :) may feel cool and clammy in the morning, but Marches in hot ~eather are partid 1farly ·~~~­ they w!ll be cl ean and soft. Never pl ac~ the ing. The hat should have ventilators, and boots near a fire or in the sun to dry, as it when not ex~osed to the direct rays of the makes them h<.t rd and stiff. sun it should be removecll from the head. It is well to keep the clothing about the neck and throat open, and turn up the shirt sleeves so as " Everything .that is not Irish must b~ to leav~ the wrists free. · · Foreign." ·· ' .

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Alexander' s Pikem¢n.

Having read the article on Pike Di;ill, by John Mitchel, rewi:ited in the l~st µ~p:i:J?er of . the VoLUNT.EER, it oq::urref:L to .~~ · th~t an account of the pikemen led bv Alexander the: Grea.t .to the .c;orrg~e~t\y Asi~ ~ight be i:nter~~t­ ing an.a. instruct!ve: .In qia_ny' waxs .¥}!chel's scheme of for:mation of pikemen .bears a:' stroncr. " resemblance to Alex<].nder's ~Phala1)X .'

The .Macedonian ~oldi.er was ~rmed,..:;·i~h ·: ·, spear a!_ld ) hort sword,. " ' rn·e spear Wll~:ii~Jeet; long . and. was. held at the. butt by the rio'ht! . . " i hand, and four feet highe~ ~p by -the left ha~J:" In addition, · !ie.· carried a . shield, and wore a helmet, cuiri.ass, and greav.es, so .that he· gained . protection at the cost of mobility.

The Phalanx was drawn up si~teen ranks deep, the spears of five ranks projecting b~yond the front rank . . The µien in ranks, fu.Ether back .. rested their spears on the shoulder:s of .the men. in front, which gave some sort of cover from · missiles.

Alexander divided his . Phalanx of 1& ·, 000 men into six brigades of 3,ooq each. · These were sub-div}ded into battalions and co,mpanies, and the men \~ere trained . to open or close .in companies and batt~lions as . the ground required . Between. .the' sub"divisions wer~ 110-ht . " 0 troops to keep the line intact when the nature of the gro~nd required an open fo~ation, and which were withdrawn when it .was possible .to close again. The flanks of the Phalanx -weif{ protected by being hmt back, cir by meilns .of light troops or cavalry. ' . . . .

The d eciding facto~s in a fight were the weight of the ·mass and the le,ngth of th~ spear.

The reader' can now make his comp'a ris6n with Mitchel's proposals, and .see how close' is' . ....

I the resemblance. The Macedonian 'Hoplite . was armed wit~ a long spear and a short sword ; the Irish Volunt~er w1il have a shorter spear and a revolver. The ·massed Iri~h pikemen would have the same advant~ge : ~ver regular troops with bayonets as the Macedonians had over the short .spears of the Persians, with this difference, th at ,the Phalan:ic, w'ben broken, was encumbered by its own weight, and its spears were .too .l<,:>11g.to l-xr of.use ha.~d to h<].n\l! .while the Volunteer pikemen will b~ mobile, the pike can easily be shortened at clos,y quarters.,, and the revolver is .a handy sup,plem.ent to it. · ·

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lf:-he tnish Vol.u nteer 'SAlrURDA-¥, MARCH 27, 1·915.

The 1Centrnl Executive ·has heid -no. meeting this week owing to ·the occurrence · of St. Patrick's Day. ~fhe •Headquarters' -Staff .desires to impress upon -Batta]ion and Company ·Comm.a nders ·the necessity'- of keeping up ·the training of their units even ·in flie absence of an experienced instri.1ctor.

T he essentials of training are marching, marksmanship, and scouting, arid for .these branches an instructor, ·though useful, is -n<;it ' essentia l. : Hea~1 u arters, 41

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TR~!l'!lNG AND MOBILISATION. ,:E:ach _Batt;i.lion or Co~pany Commander wHl .st:e .th;i.t traipiJ:lg in m;irching, marksmans):ijp, anj:l scouting is continuously kept up by the unit under his command, whether a skilled )n$tructqr be,available or not. _2. ~fl.Ch . Battalion or.Company Co!llmander \V.! IL:i~r«pare a Moqilisation scheme for the .u11it uncle~ .bis CO/Timand, and test it by ,at. least two r~~-id :~oqili.sqtion; .<luril)g t he next six , '~eeks.

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N()J'ES _F R OM HEADQUARTERS . . TRAINING.

Th~ .i ~portant General Orders issued · Ehis week are designed to · fix the attention of Battalion and Compaaj.' Commanders on the .. '-· . . i\hsolut~ qee'd: to).~..eep · i.Ip continuous trai ning w\iether ~~Hie\l 'instmctor!) be av;i.i\able or not.

The H eadquar ters' : :Staff does not accept the fact th~ ~:~no . ~:a,i;i:n.y m~h or oth(!r expert instrucfo~ i. .on ·tti~'-.spot .as a .val~d ~)l'.-cuse for t~)e·:. ¢iscqutii;iu~nce o;f train~ng.

There can bg no good reason and no valid, '<?\C.use for the discontinuance .of what ·is, a fter all , the sole raisoJz (i'etre of rt}:~e I.ri,sh Volunteers,-military Volunteers who are. not carrying out t r;ininrr. ..

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Thc 11.0 tiun th;tl tccbnica l experience 1· necessarv in an instructor must be strenuous]y conibated . T echnical experience is no do ubt desirable, but when the technical experience is not at harid we must simply do the best we can "·ithout it. It surely will not be contended that we are to discontinue our training un til the war ·is over and the ex-arm y men are again free to' give l !S their service~ . The H eadquarters' Staff very. strongly hold just the contrary-that the training must go on now more vigorously than ever, and ·that our own officers are nearly, if not quite, as competent as the ex-army men to provide the sort of training we require.

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THE KIND OF TRAINING. -As it has already been put in these notes, Volunteer trai ning is largely a . matter of applied commonsense. It :is much more a matter of or<:i°inary commonsense than of ,expert knowledge. It does not need an ex-soldier to teach men to move rapidly · through a country: a nd rapid marching is the first essential of our trarnmg. It does -not need an ex-army man to teach men pow to shoot : every Company can practi;e marksmanship in ·its own ·hall or field, ever y Vol unteer can practise it in his own backyard or bedroom : and marksmanship is the second e.ssential of our training . . It does not need a n ex-army man to teach .scouting : some men are born scouts, ·a nd all men can make themselves scouts by simply cultivating their po-we:rs of observation, deduction, m em~ry, and so on; by .exerc.ising commonsense in choosing cover, and acquiring rapidity in taking cover and changing from cover to cover: ·a nd this is the third essential of our training. Qnce more, these fine spri ng days should see all our Companies _a nd all our groups .of even two or three Volunteers on the ro,a ds or in the fields acquiring their own military knowledge and experience, and working. out thei r own scheme of t-raining. One of the ,best points of our system will -be just this, that it ·will be our own, adapted ·to our own · parti~ular exigencies and limited by our own limitations.

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carried the mam body was to advance to the attack, and they would now be assisted by the American battery th us turned . against its own side. After dark on .January 7th, 1815, Col.. .

Thornton was sent to convey the flanking force far as tlte_y were surp_rise. · d an d 11eavily ' across the river, and the main army moved into punished.. .They lost over zoo men ' includina - b The general assault ·was to be made position.

60 pris::iners . In tlze confused fighting among at dawn. tlte tr ees and swamps small clusters of tlze raw Owing to some mistake- about · the boats or American troops were well able to hold their from some other cause, Thornton started late own against the English, and this eno-ao-ement b 0 put great heart into the garrison. From now and by daybreak he had .on.ly one-thi~d of hi~ on reinforcements kei::t corning in to Jackson, force on the opposite bank. Meantime Pakenhamj other arrangement~ had al~o g~1~e ;r~ng . and he contrived :further to harass the Enalish b - who on t heir side were also being reinforced The 44th .Regime-Rt ' was to lead the assault --by sending down the ships "Carolina·" and arid for that purpose was _to carry .fas;ines t~ " Louisiana " to bombard the English positions. fill the ditches and scaiing ladders . It had The English commander, Gen. , Pakenham, neglected this measure, and when day dawned brought up guns from the fleet and opened found itself empty-handed in the lead. The agains't the American ships with red-hot shot, general ordered the regiment to the rear to get setting the " Carolina " on fire and driving the the ladders, and in the meanwhile the other " Louisiana " up the river; where her guns were regiments advanced. Then every American taken out and placed in a battery on the other steadily laid his piece on the parapet, took bank to enfilade any foroe attacking the main careful aim--for it was now light-and blazed American position . The Americans also made into the English. The leading ranks were a most judicious use of snipers, who picked off literally shot away, though a few of the 93rd the English sentries and pickets, kept the out- Highlanders reached the entrenchments. The posts always on the alert and allowed the English brought up more troops, but with the enemy no rest._ Pakenham next tried a ~ame result, and confusion spread rapidly reconnaissance in force, but found the Ameri- among them. The battery across the river can line very strong ; and a bombardment opened and caused terrific losses. Pakenbam which he tried as soon as enough of the ships' and General Gibbs were both killed, and guns were avaiiable, failed compl~tely to silence eventually Gen . Lambert, who succeeded to the the defenders' guns-those landed ffom the command, drew off the routed army . On the warships oh the opposite bank being particu- other bank Col. Thornton pressed bolcll y larly troublesome. Eventually Pakenham made forward, weak as was his fon;:e, antl after sharp up his mind that the only course remaining was resistance by the small defending force carried. the great battery. The battle was· now over, a general assault with his entire force . however, and presently he too fell back. At" any rate, the American seamen had managed to rc-- --,-=---""'""'-- -,------..,,.,="""----spike their cannon before abandoh.ing them.

Subsequently the English abandoned all thought of a further attempt against the City.

They had lost well over 2,000 men, while own report placed his loss at s ix ty~

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The battles in this series comprise the most noteworthy of those in which ordinary, regular, disciplined armies have be~n defoateq by less disciplined foes. Those foes have always gained their victories by a judicious use of some point in which they were superior to the regulars j and by realising that some type of action different from the ordinary was required.

J.-NEW ORL.E ANS. The ·defe_a t · of the French in 1814 set free the Engli~h tr~ops for service in America_, and great numbers of them were sent there in the later part of the year. One objective of the English was the · capture of -New Orleans, which was designed to cut off t~e Mississippi settlements of America from all access to the sea. A strong fleet under Admirai Cochrane and an army of 6,ooo _was originally assigned to this .service, and powerful reinforcements arrived later on.

OPPOSING FORCES .

The defence of New Orleans was entrusted to Gen. Andrew Jackson, who had about the be.g inning of December -sorne r,500 men in the city, of which one-half or so were regular troops. The remainder were the militia of the States of Kentucky, Louisiana and Tennessee.

These last were poorly trained and disciplined, and armed 'W'itk rifles, muskets and ·shot-guns.

They were all, however, backwoodsmen and ltunters~xcellent material for soldiers-and under the iron hand of Jackson they were calculated ta develop into a formidable fighting force. Reinforcements of . milit~a and free negroes brought the _American strength up to 4,000 by the day of the batfle. The English were reinforced up to 9,000, and were of very high quality-practically all being Wellington's Peninstilar veterans. The English design was to· qi.ove up ·Lake Borgne and advance against the city on the left bank' of the Mississippi, as it was not thought :feasable to bring the ships past the forts far dowp the river.

PRELIMINARY MANCEUVRES. The English defeated the small American flotilla · on Lake Borgne, and on Deeember 23rd their advance gua1'd, SOIT)e I ,600 Strong, was bnclecl on .the river bank eight m'iles below the ·city.

That day the U .S. schooner "Carolina" drop.peel down the river and made great .havoc in their camp, forcing them into cover behind the levee or raised bank of the river. After nightfall J aGkson decicled on an extremely bold stroke---nothing else than a night attack 011 the English camp with the 1,5~0 men he had then at his command. This enterpi;ise ·was, en,tirely successful; not in the ,?e1}se tha.t the English were routed, but in so

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J ackson had made the best possible use of the delays .

Pakenham's design wa that the battery on the right bank should first be carried by a . detachment of r,500· men carried across in boats; and to bring . the boats into the river he deepened a canal behind his lines from the !a:ke to the river, When thi s battery- was.

COMMENTS. .lessons are to be gained from this remarkable victory-gained a. gainst a superior<J

ity of more than two "to one. Of course Jackson had an admirable position, and made the best possible use of it; but, in othe_r respects too, hi.s ..conduct of the ope~ations gives many hints for the guidance of commanders of raw troops.

His bold night atta"ck on December 24-th was of great value to encourage his men. -The conditions then were such as to give a very fai r prospect of success. to poor troops: they had .tlte advantage of szcrpris e, tlie figltting was hand to ltand and in small parties, and all they needed was to be" blooded." The same pali:cy is to be observed in the affairs of outposts which the Americans indulged in during ., th~ co uple of weeks' waiting. Finally, Jackson w,as a most rigid discjplinarian- hence the steady ~ring of his men in the main action . It is always men of this stamp wlzo lta-ve. done best witlt raw levies ,

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Paken ham's mistakes were gross and selfeviclent. 'Vhen T hornton's attack missed at the p roper time he should not have attacked at all on fhe 8th. . I t is note,xorthy, howeYer, that many generals face d by raw opponents ltave similarly und er-estimated tlzem~to their cost.

ARM N OW !

It is of the utmost importance tha t every Volunteer should have a rifle. "Arms," qS The O'Rehill y says, " must be. got ins tantly; and in a nswer to the question what sort- any kind, irrespect.i ~-e of type, size, bore or anything else ."

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It is :is larg~ as a service rifle, and can be carried in two pieces which fit in the breast pockets of any ord inary coat. It fi res "long nose" po int twenty-two cartridges , and has a perfectl y acc urate ra nge of 2 00 yards; at which d istance it p ierces fo ur or five inches of tough wood . It is effective up to 506 yards.

A company armed with these weapons would be as formi dable as any which one coul d! desire; a nd as the ;unmun ition is cheap a volunteer coul d carry 2, 0 00 rou nds without cl'i scomfort.

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BELFAST VO LUN TE E RS .

The resul t of the recruiting appeal m St. Mary's H all on 7th inst. was most encouraging .

On the day followi ng the numbers on parade were exact! y doubled, and an extraordinary degree of enthu sias m p revailed .

The recent inter-company shooting competiti0ns proved that a l~os t every active Volunteer in Belfast has now become a good shot.

T o stimulate in te rest in the shooting a p r ize of a rcvoh·er is offered for the best results obtai necl in the companies' ordinary p racti ce duri ng lhc next month. At last p r:ictice 49 out of 50 was scored.

T he Greencastle Volunteers hax e d i covered tha t they exist. They became dorm ant after the split, as was unfor tunately the case in many di stricts .; but they have formed a Cycle Corps which will operate in con junction with the Belfast Regiment.

GORTAH ORK VOLUNT E ERS .

The Volun teers in this district of North Donegal ceased to exist some time ago; but at a meeting recently held sixty men volunteered to form a local company, and a committee was fo rmed.

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D UTIES OF HALF-COMP ANY CO MMANDER I N ACTIO N. (1.) To indicate the t ask and objectiv e of bi s sections or their line of adv a11c e, or to name a directing section .

(2) T o maintain communic aLiou and to coopcrai e with units ou hi s flanks.

(3) T o keep on the l ook-out for sigu als from the Company Comman der or Scouts.

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(6) To observe, and report to the . Company Commander, the movem ents of the en emy. ( 7) During the advance to rally his secti ons on suitable grO'und an d to take i~aderl~ss men under his com;n and .

(8) After a successful assault, to rally and re-form his comm and promptly.

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And I ask you, what would have been the res ult of all this unspoken eloquence ? The least intelligent could easily picture the result DUTIES OF SECTIO N COMMA N DEH. It would have been this-we for himself.

IN ACTION. should have had the Tories tumbling over the (I ) Before the advance to explain its object Liberals in their frantic haste to assure the and d irection to his men. owl that nothing less than the rer:ieal of the (2) To maintain that direction.

Union could be contemplated in the face of (J) ' To select !talting places and fire positions such a grave situation. And the owl would for his men, and to regu!ate their oc'cupation . . have blinked solemnly while the usual farce of (4) T o direct the fire of bis section, naming government proposition, and opposition critithe target, range, and number of rounds. cism, which in this case would have taken the Thus: fom1 of instant agreement, was ·being enacted. ."At the centre trench, at 400 yards, It might or might not have relieved its feelings · 3 i'ounds. :. Fire." by saying "Hoot-too-noo " when the farce was B e must see that the men recognise the target concluded. I use the word farce, because there .and-..,.a djust their sights. · is oniy one party among Englishmen w:here a (S)· To co--ope,rate with . neighbouring sec- subject raee is COnGCrned ! We are still and tions; using his fire to assist their movements . ever shall be regarded by British statesmen as (6) To pass on all reports promptly'. the Irish enemy, which~ much to their annoy(7) T~ send inJe.lligence to his Half- ance at presel}t, is, in defiance of all natural Company Commander. laws, actually cutting a new set of teeth ! . (8) All commaµds ·to ·be by whistle and Then with- the repeal of the Union under its signal. Every N.G.O. should provide himself wing the owl would have come back to Ireland, :with a whistle. and it would have blinked solemnly on the platform of the inevitable monster meeting of welcome; and by its silence on that occasion it would have said quite plainly:-" It's very good of you to thank me and welcome me, and all that; b\,lt I understood that when you Where there ·is the slightest· doubt about entrusted me with your leadership I was what one should do, the l~olicy of doing nothing expected .to do my duty ; and that my duty and saying notQ.ing, in nine cases out of ten, lay in acting as an Irish Leader in a foreign i~ the right policy . And if there is one .creature country."

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which suggests statesmanship and profound wisdom it is the owl. The owl-cages at the Phc.enix Pa;k Zoo are occupied. by bird s which look capable of replacing the British Cabinet any 'aay: But there is one in parti~ular, the selection · of which as the leader of the Irish people before war broke o~t last year, . would have mean.f. a triumph for Ireland. C_onsider the situation. The owl would have listened, with. its_.e yes , half open, to Sir Edward Grey, when that 0o-entleman rose to flatter us . It ' . would have· inte rpreted, in its . own way, his phrase about " the one bri ght spot, " which to

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w.ill never grow up.. They . look foxward to being men; bl!t manhood seems so fa,;..· off th at the years ~i)pea~ tc»i)~s slowly. The fact of the matter is that boys have a wa:§ of. suddenly appearing before you as men. I mean that when anyone who has trained a lot of Scouts turns his head, it is quite rossible' that wh~n he turns it back . again he will find an efficient company of Volunteers where he saw an efficient company of the Fianna.

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There is a practical instance of this before me which was exemplified "in the present war.

In the Highlands of Scotland a fairly rich man made a hobby of training the boys in the neigh]:Jouring village as scouts. H e bought service carabines for them, and good practice rifles . _ He taught them to box and fence, to sail a boat, and above all to scout.

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In 'two years time Lord' Lovat, whose scouts becam~ famous in the Boer War, sent the Lovat Scouts against these lads; and Lord Lovat admitted that his scouts were no match for them. They could' crawl over a hillside covered with nothing but heather, and were impossible to stop.

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Let the Fianna realise tliat they are Volunteers; that they are merely, as it were, marching behind the Volunteers; and will inevitably find themselves in the ranks.

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Now here is my point. When war broke out these bo.Y scouts were suddenly discovered to be men! And the rich man who had trained them was able to take some sixty perfecdy drilled soldiers to the war with him.

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The Fianna is making ste ady .progress in -the South. In CJ ~nmel there h;s bee;~ hard .recruiting . for the. Fiaima, and a big sl~1~gh will be in good . worl~ing order ·before .the cai;nping .

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