The literary digest . this manyweeks after the supposed casualty. Soldiers are constantl>arriving in this country to learn that they were killed, captured long ago, and also to discover that their dependentshave received no payments, or only spasmodically. The casualty-report problem, however, at last seems to bewell in hand, as a W^ashington dispatch dated January 8 informsus that complete lists of casualties among the AmericanPvxpeditionary Forces have been sent to Washington, and onethousand additional chirks have been put to work in th(> Adjutant-Generals office to get th
The literary digest . this manyweeks after the supposed casualty. Soldiers are constantl>arriving in this country to learn that they were killed, captured long ago, and also to discover that their dependentshave received no payments, or only spasmodically. The casualty-report problem, however, at last seems to bewell in hand, as a W^ashington dispatch dated January 8 informsus that complete lists of casualties among the AmericanPvxpeditionary Forces have been sent to Washington, and onethousand additional chirks have been put to work in th(> Adjutant-Generals office to get them out as speedily as possible. Morris for tlie George Matthew Adams .Service. 12 The Literary Digest for January 18, 1919 WHAT NEXT IN IRELAND? ((. t; iHE CO!VIING SIX MONTHS will decide whetherthe Irish question will be settled peacefully orbloodily, is the startling statement of Mr. EdwardShortt, Chief Secretarj- for Ireland, according to cable dispatchesof December 31. As this semiofficial prediction followed the. AN ANTI-BRITISH CARTOON. IxcLE Sam—It wont do to gild those prison-bars, John; youmust release that prisoner. —Byrne in the New York Gaelic American. sweeping victory of the Sinn-Feiners in the elections of December14, the outlook on future relations of England and Ireland hv-comes the more ominous to some of our editors. But a strongsupporter of the Sinn-Fein nio\eiuent in this country, the NewYork Gaelic Ainerican, says Mr. Shortt is talking , after quoting a further observation from the same interviewwith the Chief Secretary as follows: I do not consider thatthe large Sinn-Fein vote in the recent parliamentary electionsshows a demand for separation from England. I believe thatfrom sixty to seventy per cent, of the Sinn-Feiners can be per-suaded to accept Home Rule, The Gaelic American promisesthat Mr. Shortt will have a big job on his hands persuadingthem. It is noticed with alarm in some quarters that the Sinn-Feiners were elected without the s
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