The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1916-04-27
ULSTER LOYAL,
IRISH HERE BELIEVE
Cipher Messages Tell Of Re-
volts Sprcad-Lcadcr
Shot, Is Report.
RISING SET FOR EASTER

The mysterious "cipner messages
from ireland that told on Monday OF
the Dublin uprising hours before the
English censor .ct tho news through con-
tirued yesterday and brought what
many Irish Americans believed to be per-
fectly reliable information that the Irish
situation is far more serious than new
dispatches aid
These messages. received by several
irish Americans here aud printed In at
Irish revolt that spread far beyond Dub
lin. The contents Of one was commune
Gated to jeremiah A. OLeaSy Of os Park
Row, president NJ the American Truth
Society. and said the revolt was OF
throughout all ireland except lister.
Another message received In Sim i'ein
circles here was that Eoin MacNeill.
otherwise known as Prof. John Mac
Seill Of Dublin University. leader OF the
Irish Volunteers. had been shot In the
Dublin fighting. He vas also editor ri
the irish Volunteer, which In its issue ~
April I denounced violently Go, ernment
efforts tn disarm the Volunteers. who are
now leading the Dublin revolt. Irish
newspapers here had no confirmation Of
this report.
stii another message stated that the
insurgents exceed 10000.
GERMAN Omrers 10 Ireland.
One most clrcumstantiaf message
printed In q German newspaper. told oi
| the return to Berlin after a LONG espio-
mage trip through Ireland Of Capt. Ed
| uard Holman and a lieutethAnt-cou
mander whose name was not given, bott
OF the German nav, According TO This
message. the two officers were We. dis.
/! guised and were able through their pro
| ficiency In English and even In speak
ing with an Irish brogue TO confer witt
Irish Nationalist leaders and to ascer'
tain valuable military secrets.
Another cipher message repeated tn,
| report that came to many irishmeu here
that Lord and Lady Winborne had h-er
taken prisoner by Irish Volunteers. slon,
with Gen. Friend. commander Of IN,
British troops In Ireland, and other oni
Gals. This message repeated also tn,
version that they were held as hostage
for Str Roger Easement.
OF Sir Roger himself. the under
ground route said yesterday that tn
expedition that resulted in his captur
was not the first trip he had made to TN
Irish coast in u German vessel loade,
with munitions. The other trips, II va
said. were successful.
These mysterious cipher cables ar
being sent. IL was said yesterday, b,
means OF u cleverly concealed cod tina
was worked out In this country month
by Sinn Fein sympathlsers an,
members of the German secret service
The messages are said to be on the fac
Of them harmless private communica
tons about plain. everyday affairs. tn
arrest OF Sir Roger Easement is sat
to have been 'Grapevined" here In
message telling OF the Illness Of a rein
tive Of the ADDRESSED.
Every Irish leader. every English 0
Irish statesman as we'll a. every low
and county of Ireland Is said TO hay,
a name In the secret code. which It
turn has a number OF substitutes In cas-
II is lost or discovered.
Revolt Feretsld Weeks Are.
This was one explanation OF the mys
FERROUS advance information Of the Irisl
situation that has come here In III
last few days. jeremiah 4. O'Lear,
who said the news of the capture o
Lord n Lady Wlmborne %(apparentl
!ncorrect) WAS old him by telephone \
the capture OF 'himsel! and herself.
said yesterday. however. that he be-
l.eved the news OF the Dublin revol
came from q Brooklyn Irishman VIII
got II letttT Two weeks X mat !
some unexplained manner passed III
censor.
This letter. he said, foretold the re-
volt. saying that the Sim Fein ha
planned the seize the Dublin post offic
and other points. kidnap the Lord Lieu
tenant and start revolutions all throug
Ireland. The recipient OF the lette
spread the news, he said. and as IN
uprising was set for about Easter Sur
day. II was taken for grantel II ha
been begun on time. Mr.. O'l<ary woul
no, give the name OF the brooklyn Irish
man,
shane Leslie, al associate editor c
ireland. which favors John Rcdmon,
said yesterday that he heard verbal
some time & that the revolt Wa
likely because OF pre-bellum disturb
ances and the p~ostponement Of hon
rule during the war.
The real and moving cause was Gcr
man conspiracy said Mr.. Leslie, WI
deplores the revolt. THE blood OF II
slain lies on germany. The Irish peop
Z are not responsible. the source OF Il
: revolt was outside. I expec, soon
hear from Mr.. Redmond about the sstu;
5 ton. lie probably will send a messal
! to Irish Americans"
! 1t was said yesterday on what shoul