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Updated: May 11, 2025
Under date 19th October 1916: "Carson told me that a man who had been on board the Fanny was writing the story of the famous voyage and the gun-running exploit." We have not got that story yet.
We need, and Labour demands, a fair, frank treatment of African trade, and that can only be done by some overriding regulative power, a Commission which, so far as I can see, might also be the same Commission as that we have already hypothesized as being necessary to control the Customs in order to prevent gun-running and the gin trade. Now this I take it is the gist of the Labour proposal.
Warships were posted on the Ulster coast, ostensibly to stop further gun-running, and the Prime Minister announced in the House of Commons that "in view of this grave and unprecedented outrage the Government would take appropriate steps without delay to vindicate the authority of the law."
However, heave ahead, my lad, and let us hear the worst, without further parley." "Well," said Jack, "the fact is that the yachting trip is all a `blind', and is in reality neither more nor less than a gun-running expedition in aid of the Cuban revolutionaries.
To the fair young man, however, it was well known that the old gentleman's name was famous across Northern and Eastern Africa for monstrous villainy and fiendish cruelty the name of the worst and wickedest of those traders in "black ivory," one of whose side-lines is frequently gun-running.
Why?" "Some Baluchis are gun-running fifty miles up the coast, that's all. Thought you'd like to know." "Are they, begad! Thanks for the tip. Can you describe the spot?" "A tiny village lying behind a point. A river runs through it, and there's a short jetty. Sorry I can't give you latitude and longitude. You'll catch 'em if you hurry up. Hope you will, and run 'em in. Good-bye."
Threat was met by counter-threat, violent fool competed with violent fool for the admiration of the world, the National Volunteers armed against the Ulster men; everything moved on with a kind of mechanical precision from parade and meeting towards the fatal gun-running of Howth and the first bloodshed in Dublin streets.
With the Miraflores steaming along in his wake, in the same formation as that adopted by the gun-running steamers, Jim started off on his search for the Union, heading west-south-west for the mouth of the Straits of Magellan, with a man at either masthead of each of the two vessels, and a prize of fifty pesos to the seaman who should first sight her.
Let it be remembered, too, that all through these days there was proceeding in Dublin a public inquiry into the events of the Howth gun-running and the affray at Bachelor's Walk, and some measure of Redmond's difficulties may be obtained.
Miss Pettigrew certainly frowned at me. "Mother would never let me," said Hilda. I had forgotten Hilda's mother for the moment. I saw at once that the idea of gun-running would frighten her and she would not like to think of her daughter ploughing the bottom of the Amazon in a submarine. "Besides," said Lalage, "it wouldn't be right.
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