The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-05-25
IRISH-HUN PLOT
CONTINUED lrom Page One,

tContinued lrom rage One.B
and we find him in January, 1915.
transmitting messages to- America.
According to a report of Captain
Won Papen, German military attache
in Washington dated December 8,
1914, verbal assurances were sent in
response to Easements request that an
excellent impression had been pro-
duced in Ireland. In the beginning
of 1916, the plot ripened and on Feb
ruary 10, of that year Count Won Bern
storff sent to covering address in
Rotterdam, a dispatch signed with the
name of Skal. one of his principal
American agents
Irish Urged Early Action. q.
THE dispatch included an extract
from the report of John Dewey. head
, of the Clan-Na-G Gael. to the effect
that action in Ireland could not be
postponed much longer since he feared
the arrest of the leaders. 1t had been
decided, he said, to begin action on
Easter Saturday, and he urged that
arms and munitions be in Limerick
| by that date.
Later in the same month Won
Bernstorff, following his usual practice,
| surreptitiously attached to message
to Berlin passed by the American gov
eminent a note fixing Easter Saturday
| for the rising and urging the despatch
| of munitions in time On March 4,
Won Jagow German foreign minister)
| replied that the arms would be landed
| in Tralee bay and asked that the
necessary arrangements be made In
| Ireland thru Dewey. On March Il,
Won Bernstorff replied that the Irish
agreed and that full details were being
| sent to Ireland by messenger.
THE next day Won Rernstorff tele-
| graphed the code to be used between
| the Germans and the rebels while the
| arms were in transit, and explained
that a submarine might safely enter
Dublin bay and go as far as Plgeon
| House without encountering nets.
All Arrangements Made.
| "On March %, Won Jagow replied
| that the arms would be sent and that
Ia special code word would be used
| every night as the introduction to the
| German wireless press service. In
message from Won Bernstorff to Der.
lin the Germans were assured that
there were numerous private wireless
receiving stations in Ireland.
ION April IS and 10, urgent mes
| sages were sent from America to Ber-
lin fixing the delivery of arms for the
| evening of Easter Sunday, pressing
for the landing of German troops and
| asking for an air raid on England and
a naval attack on the English coast
These attacks actually took place be-
tween April "a and IS.
1t was declared to be the hope OF
the rebels and their German and
American friends to blockade the
Irish ports against England and es-
| tablish bases in Ireland for German
submarines. The rebellion broke out
a day later than scheduled, on Easter
Monday, April "a, but as the world IL
aware. German support miscarried
and it ended in a complete failure.
The report of the royal commission
on the rebellion in Ireland states:
Used German Money.
LIT is now a matter of common no.
toriety that the Irish Volunteers had
been in communication with the au-
thorities in Germany and We're for a
long time known to have been sup
piled with money thru Irish-American
societies. This was so stated in pub
lie by John MacNeil (former president
of the Sim Fein) on November g.
1914. 1t was suspected long before
the outbreak that some of the money
came from German sources
The evidence on this subject in
possession of the British government
provides the clearest proof of these
suspicious.
TT became clear very soon after the
rising that the Sim Fein leaders were
asking Germany for help. On June
= II there was a message from Berlin
May g. message which is missing
and saying that Germany was per
fectly ready to give further help if the
Irish only would say what sort of helI
they required.
Insisted on U-Boat Bases.
ION June 1s Won Bernstorff already
had sent a dispatch giving an account
of the rebellion as far as his informa
ton went, and stating that one thou
sand pounds had been provided fol
the defense of Easement. On July 2:
he sent a long message giving furthel