Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 266, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 November 1914 — NOT SUCH DEADLY ENEMIES [ARTICLE]

NOT SUCH DEADLY ENEMIES

*Bloody Chasm” That Separated Nationalists and Might Have Been Bridged. As all the world knows, international war has proved a great conciliator In Ireland. As a contributor to the Bystander says, you cannot give much attention to the dismemberment of the empire whea you are not certain whether you will have an empire to dismember. There Is a geniality about tbe Nationalist volunteer that makes you 1 know that he would rather fight some .one else—Germany in this ca&§ —than Ulster. A few stories ate current that help to show how very ripe Ireland was for Not long ago a company, of Nationalist volunteers, passing a company of Ulstermen, and being uncertain as to tbe enstomary etiquette between deadly enemies—saluted. In a northern district there was only one* field suitable for drilling, and as the two opposition armies wanted It, the owner began bidding them .against each other. Northern canninesß asserted itself. The commanding officer of (me battalion approached the enemy, and they agreed to rent the field in common, and use it on-alternate days! A third anecdote relates that while some Ulster volunteers were drilling a Nationalist was spen sitting on a fence watching them. When he was Questioned by an Ulsterman he explained that his own company had mislaid their rifles and could not drill; “but,” he added, "we were waiting to see if we could get tbe loan of when you’ve done with them.”