The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-07-07
GERMAN SENTIMENT IN IRELAND STRONG. DESPITE ALL DEN|ALS
Strains of ''Watch on the Rhine" Are Heard on the Streets of Dublin Fol
 lowing Arrests

Dublin. June 1.-(Correspondence of pro German declare all the Irish lead- CTS. but there is considerable elemen: in Dublin, Cork and other Irish cities, every opportunity.
 During the week following the ar rest of De Valera and the other Sim Fein leaders, the strains of the Watch on the Rhne'' were frequently heard on Dublin streets. sung by small crowds ot Sim Fein sympathizers. It has been frequently recorded that Irish hoodlums at the moving picture theatres have hissed pictures of British and American soldiers and sailors, and a letter in Dublin newspaper this week states that a moving picture audience cheered a picture of the medal cast by the Ger mans to commemorate the sinking of the Lusital.ia.
 One of the most remarkable scenes which the Associated Press correspond ent witnessed in Dublin was the en- thusiastic cheering of ship load of German interned prisoners, who were being taken from a camp in Ireland to a camp on the Isle of Man. A crowd of several hundred persons, mostly waving Sim Fein flags, stood on the quay and sang the Sim Fein Soldiers Song" to the departing prisoners. Many of the members of the crowd were rela- tives by marriage of the interned aliens.
 The prisoners were practically the entire popula tion of a camp established early in the war at Oldcastle, Ireland, for German civilian prisoners. They were 450 in number. and were embarked from a Dublin dock on a Sunday morn- ing. From an early hour their Irish friends began gathering along both sides of the river. A strong military force was present and took complete possession of the quay alongside which the steamer was berthed.
 Before the special train carrying the prisoners arrived at the dock, there appeared a freight train of ten cars, containing the "baggage'' of the Ge-- mans.
 This amounted to ten car loads of the most unusual baggage that was ever handled on the bank of the River Liffey. There were pianos, double-bass violins, and the whole set of instru- sailors sea trunks of great variety. there was a grandfather clock of huge proportions. and complete set of the atrical properties and stage scenery, which told of entertainments past or for for future production.
 Khaki-clad dockmen perspired over the job of arranging these mountains ol baggage into slings, hoisting them on board the steamer, and slowing the stuff away in the hold.
 The train with the German and Aus trian travellers arrived in the station across the road from the river, ana was cheered by the crowd outside the gates Handkerchiefs were waved py the women and the prisoners waved back out of the train windows.
 Several times the crowd made rush towards the quaysde, but the military and police allowed no entrance to the dock sheds and the crowd of onlooE- CTS finally took up positions on loo of lumber piles lower down the rlVer wall, whore the boat could be seen and cheered as 1t started dow' the river
 Sim Fin scarfs and ribbons were worn bv most of the women in tne crowd. A similar crowd quickly col lected on the south wall. across the river, where the men and women sans over and over the Sim Fein song, ana cheered themselves hoarse as the dc- portees were brought onto the decks of the steamer.
 Then suddenly the strains of brass band. playing medley of German airs.