Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1918-06-26
Outbreak i'm Ireland Was
Planned by Bernstorff

the Germans and the rebels while the
arms were in transit. and explained
| that a submarine light safely enter
| Dublin bay nd - as far as Pigeon
! House without encountering nets.
ION March % Won Jagow replied
that the arms would be sent and that
! a special code word would be used ev-
cry night as the Introduction to the
German wireless press service. In a
| message from Won Bernstorff TO Berlin
! the Germans were assured that there
were numerous private wireless re-
ceivlng stations in Ireland.
"On April Is and April 10 urgent
messages were sent from America TO
! Berlin fixing the delivery of arms for
the evening of Easter Sunday, press
/ ing for the landing of German troops
and asking for an air raid on Eng
land and a naval attack on the Eng
/ fish coast. These attacks actually
took place between April "a and 20.
at was declared to be the hope Of
the rebels and their German and Amer
lean friends to blockade Irish pores
against England and establish bases
in Ireland for German submarines.
1.-The rebellion broke out a day later
than scheduled, on Easter Monday,
April "a, but, as the world is aware,
German support miscarried and 1t end
ed in complete failure. The report OF
the royal commission on the rebellion
in Ireland states:
at is now matter of common
notOriety that the Irish volunteers had
been In communication with the author
tiles in Germany and were for a long
| time known to have been supplied with
money through Irish-American socie-
/ ties. This was so stated in public by
! John MacNell, former president of the
Sim Fein, on November s, 1914. 1t
was suspected long before the out
break that some of the money came
from German sources
1T became clear soon after the ris-
4 ing that the Sim Fein leaders again
| were asking Germany for help. On
| June Il there was a message from
/ Berlin to Washington referring to a
| go Of May g. message which Is
/ missing. and saying that Germany was
| perfectly ready to give further help
! If the Irish only would say what sort
/ of help they required.
"On June 10 Won BernstOrff already
/ had sent dispatch giving an account
of the rebellion and stating that So
600 had been provided for the defense
of Easement. ON July 25 he sent a
long message. explaining that the work
/ Of reorganizing the rebels was making
I good progress and that their lack of
money had been remedied by him.
"On September s in a dispatch to
Berlin he incl0sed a memorandum
from person called the Irish revolu-
ton director resident in America
which contained detailed proposals for
fresh rising. Any rising, said the
! Irish revolution director. must be con-
tingent upon the sending by Germany
OF an expedition with sufficient mill
/ tary force to cover a landing.
Demanded U-6oat Bases.
ION this occasion the German gov
eminent was 20 fix the time. and as an
/ inducement the advantages Of having
] submarine and Zeppelin bases in west
I Ireland was insisted upon. Won Bern
st0rff, on December 1, attaching sur
/ r,ptitiously to a message passed by
the government. a note in which he
mentioned that the Irish leaders in
( A"erica were pressing for an answer
10 their proposal of SeptemberS. He
. seems To have followed this on Christ
mas day with a message which is miss
ing. for on the last day of 1916 For
eign Secretary Zimmerman informed
him Of quantities of munitions which
it was proposed to land between Feb
ruary p and 25, 1917 He added that
] II was impossible TO send German
/ troops.
''On January IS. 1917, Bernstorff
replied that his Irish committee de-
clined the proposal, as without Ger
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