Arizona republican., 1918-06-26
IRISH PLOT MADE
 IN GERMANY MENACE,
 COMMONS INF FORMED
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 LONDON, June 25.-Edward Shortt, chief secretary for Ireland, speaking in the house of commons today on the Irish question. said he hoped to satisfy the house that the German plot in Ireland was a real and imminent danger to this country. He said he was satisfied that both the clergy and the nationalists had used their influ ence respectively to assist in keeping the peace.
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 NIT. Shortt said the government knew that in a certain port of Ger many a large amount of ammunition was loaded into a German submarine, and that, moreover, submarines had been seen in localities where the de- struction of shipping could not have been their object.
 Irish Unaware of Hun Duplicity
 MT. Shortt said that since the pre- mier had announced the governments policy with regard to Ireland circum- stances had entirely changed. therc being two main causes for the change. The first and most far-reaching cause, he said, was the discovery of a Ger man plot in Ireland, which he hoped would be able to satisfy the house was real and imminent danger to the | counnry. In addition, there was the fact that the feeling in Ireland wa. against conscription and the move ment which necessarily followed tha1 feeling had been used by the extrem- ists in a physical movement in con. junction with the German plots. I'm speaker said he did not for momen say that any substantial proportion o those in Ireland who were opposed [, conscription had any knowledge tha they were being used to further ; German plot.
 Hun Plot a Reality
 Mir. Shortt said that Sim Feiner! had been captured in the anti-con scription movement. It had been de clared that the German plot was bogus plot intended to injure Ireland but he regretted to say that there wa no need for intervention, for the plo was a fact. When he and Viscoun
 French went to Ireland, MT. Short continued, they found the reappear ance of seditious propaganda in tn form ef poems, pamphlets and notices
 posted on the walls, melting the peo
 pie to aid any German force tha
 
 Any straw and fodder taken by tn
 German army" MT. Shortt said, wi
 be paid for by Germany"
 Urge Illegal Drilling in Speeches MT. Shortt quoted extracts fror
 many speeches that had been delivere
 urging illegal drillings for the purpos
 of assisting Germany, And said tn sources of information upon which tn , government relied to show German in } trigue existed both in Ireland and out side had always proved true whe } tested by subsequent events. ? He said he had traced the activit |, of German agents in Ireland from 191 ] and asserted that at the beginning (
 the war a pamphlet entitled "Irelan, } Germany and the Freedom of the Seas t had been in circulation in Ireland. I bore evidence If being German printe l and for the last three months ha Q begun to reappear in Ireland. e M. p. From East Clare Involved . It was here the speaker said Il government had found Germany was
 touch with Ireland and made refel ' ence to the collapsible boat in whc the prisoner in the tower had lande
 It was a peculiar coincidence, M /, Shortt continued, that upon Profess,
 Edward De Valera, member of parlis n ment for East Clare and a prominel i Sim Feiner, was found the text of Ii letter written to him by another il h termed man which made allusion Q something which was going to happ,
 two months after the German O q fensive began and that De Valera W; . reminded that the two months wcu IT not be up until the end of May. 1t Donald McNeill, unionist, interrup l. ing the speaker asked has the writ t. been shot?"
 l. Desire no More Executions e No" replied MT. Shortt, "and u l. less we are forced by those who e St themselves interned persons. we ha, e no desire for any more executions. e we can protect the country and il 'l sure the safety of the realm witho e any more executions we want to do f |" If it is otherwise, the responsibili ~. will be upon those who force it. al . not upon us"
 ExPremier Asquith again appeal d 10 the government to refer the Fri 10 question to the dominions conferent st The government" Mir Shortt co ,- tinued, "is determined to put down di Q order. There is no democrat wi ,f would allow peaceful citizens to al persecuted and ruined for their polj le ical opinions, and the governme
 does not intend to allow it." l@ls f.I-