The Bridgeport times and evening farmer. (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1918-1924, 1918-05-18
ALLEGE GERMANS ARE
communicating WITH
LEADERS OF TROUBLE
LORD FRENCH ISSUES PROCLAMATION
CALLING ON IRISH TO ENLIST-BE-
LIEVE CONSCRIPTION is TO BE
FURTHER DELAYED.

London May 18-Ireland and Irish affairs again
to the FORE Discovery of German plot involving per-
sons in Ireland was announced last night in Dublin by the is
suance of proclamation signed by Edward Shor chief
retay for Ireland in the of the lord lieutenant
French.
This was followed by wholesale arrests in
both Dublin and Belfast well in many of the remoer dis
tricts of the island today
Among those arrested the following prominent
acters in Irish affairs
Joseph McIuinness Sim Fen member of parliament for
the southern division Of County Longord McGrah Walter
Scoles John NJ Centes Sim Feiner who sentenced
death in connection with during the
beion of 1876 and Denis Mccullough another Sim Fener
All of the foregoing placed under arrest in Belefas
Additional arrests in Ireland reported in dispatches
Dublin include Darrell Fggis, Thomas Hunter Joseph Nc
Grath Patrick Okeefe Prof. De Valera President of the Sim
Fen Countess Markevicz Arthur Griffith founder of the Sim
Fein, William Cosgrave, Fein P Kilkenny Dr.
Thomas Dillon and DR.. Richard Hayes.
The arrest of the Sim leaders and the
Lord Frenchs proclamation complete surprise here
In Dublin the arrests made by detectives acting
alton with the military while in the provinces they
ried out by the royal Irish constabuary.
So far has been asceraned formal charge has yet
been preferred against the prisoners They taken into
custody the the realm
The proclamation asserts that British subjects resident in
Ireland have entered reasonable communication with the Ger
man enemy and calls drastic measures put the
German plot Voluntary recruiting urged in order that
pulsion may be avoided and that the Irish assist in putting
down the conspiracy
Communication with Dublin is Slow but dispatch to the
Times that large number of persons already have been
arrested in Dublin and other parts of Ireland.
The reference voluntary enlistment in the proclamation
appears confirm predictions that the government have
changed their policy concerning conscrpon in Ireland owing
to Nationalist and Sim Fein opposition.
report became current in Ireland Friday that the govern
contemplated launching recruiting scheme the lines
formerly by the Earl Of Derby in England
Another report to the effect that several prominent Irish
men submitted to Premier dGeorge request ap
point Sir Bryan Mahon who has just renqushed the
military Ireland director of recruiting in
land Gen. popular with large rishmen
regarded having very active sympathes
but whether appointment would have practical results
only be speculated on.
in Ireland recently received early
morning of the made in Ireland and of Lord French
proclamation that certain of the kings subjects have entered
into reasonable communication with the German enemy"
created sensation Some days ago Sir Edward the
Irish Unionst leader said in letter the government that
certain persons in Ireland had been communication
important individuals connected with the who cap
of the arrests taken connection with the
persons referred the heads of the Sim Fein
and that the evidence against
them
Prof. De Valera, William CosgTave and Countess Marke-
arrested for the parts they played in the Sim Fen
into being All sentenced to death, but this
mued later to life imprisonment After several months in
on all released
Prof. De Valera elected member Of parliament for
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