Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-05-25
MORE SINN FEIN MEN
FACE COURT MARTIAL
Two Accused of Having Ex-
plosives- Secretary for
Colonies in Dublin
London, May %.

London, May %.
Walter Hume Long. Secretary for the
Colonies, and Herbert L. Samuel. former
Home Secretary. a supporter of former
Premier Asquith have arrived in Dublin
Long is chairman Of the committee pre-
pairing the home rule bill
Several more arrests have been made.
Two of the men arrested Sunday. Collins
and Mullins. will be court-martialed on
charges OF having Illegal possession of
explosives.
The Dublin Independent calls MIR Bal
four letter another example Of hiding
the true methods and adds that MIR
Baltour. while granting passports has.
in effect, forbidden the Mayor from
going on his mission"
on the other hand, the Irish Times
the chief Union paper. says that the
Mayor had seized on this merely as an
excuse to escape the ordeal Of facing
American opinion. 1t says:
The Mayors anti-Conscription con-
ference cares SO little about an Irish set
tlement that it Is using every effort to
make such a settlement impossible. The
conference has not only alenated every
friend Of Nationalist aspirations in Eng
land. it has filled their best friends
throughout the world with indignation
and disgust witness the overfnwing
testimony of the newspapers of the
United states, France and the British
dominiOns. The conference itself is
aware Of this fact, for its envoy the
Mayor has seized upon the most trivial
and ridiculous excuse TO escape the
ordeal Of an interview with President
Wilson. Is ireland to sit helpless and
tongue tied until the Mansion House
conference completes her ruin and full
fills her shame?"
The entire 'mosQuto press" some
half-dozen Sim Fein weekly newsnapers
Of diminutive size but with plenty of
sting, APPEARED as usual today The ar
ticies are very cleverly and ably written
and many are of high literary uIaIitv
and wit hout excessive violence Of Ian
guagp which might provoke suppression
The editors often display great ingenuity
in conveying their propaganda under a
disguise easily penetrated by an Irish
reader who likes nothing better than
this game of hide and seek
Sim FeInrrs Quoted
In January of this year Professor De
Valera said:
"As long as Germany is the enemy of
England and England is the enemy of
- 'Ae'h'' lt4allh " III w ll'' lTlfilU OF
Germany"
For a long time. went on the official
statement, 1t was difficult to secure aC-
curate information In April it was
asCertained that the time was ripe for
the landing Of arms in Ireland the
Germans were awaiting information
from Ireland as to the date and place
The British were able to warn the Irish
Of che probable landing.
German Agent Arrested
\ German agent was landed from a
German submarine on April L., and
was arrested.
The uprising depended largely on the
landing of munitions from a submarine.
According TO documents found on the
person Of De Valera, he had worked
out the details Of a constitution and
rebel army. He had hoped to muster
half a million trained men.
German munitions had actually been
shipped from CuXhaven at the beginning
of May. For some time the Germans
had been busy off the west Irish coast
on other erTandS than the destruction
Of Allied shipping.
The revolutionary movement in Ire
land. eliminating in the arrest of
considerable number of persons last
week, consisted of two closely related
series of activities" said the official re-
port
First. Attempts by Germany to TO-
ment rebellion in Ireland.
Second. Preparations made in Ire
land to carry these principles into ac-
ton"
Plot Summed Up
The events relating to the first were
detailed, but those relating to the second
were not because such an action would
have disclosed the names of the per-
sons who stood by the Government.
The Rev Father Nicholson fulfilled
Roger Castment's wish that he corrupt
Irish prisoners in Germany it was de
Clared. He helped TO conspire for the
Faster rebellion. BernstOrff fixing the
date II was said.
Won Jagow (formeT German foreign
secretary arranged to land arms at
TTalee Bay.
Bernstorff asked for a simultaneous
air raid over England and naval at
tack against the English coast. The
German plotter hoped TO blockade Irish
ports and establish submarine bases n
Ireland.
Attacks were actually made by the
Germans between April - and AnrlI
26, in 1915. but the other German help
misCarried.