The Sentinel=record., 1918-05-22
GERMAN MONEY FURNISHED
 THE IRISH RADICALS
Plan Was to Start a Rebellion in Ire land When the German Forces Reached the Channel Ports in Franee--United States Furnished England With the Plans.
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Washington, May 21.-Disclosure today that the government has gath cred evidence in this country of con spiracies between the Irish Sim Fein leaders and German agents to pre- eipitate a rebellion in Ireland was followed by announcement that gov ernment agents have uncovered sim liar German intrigue with other in- ternationalistic groups in the United States
 German money, it was said, has been used to finance agitation among negroes and among Films, Lithuan ians and other of the so-caled "op- pressed nationalities," which foI years have had nationalist grievances Iagainst anu-Germanic allies. In most cases this propaganda has been car ried on by Americans affiliated with these groups, paid from some mys- terious source believed to be the Ger man government. Except among the radical Irish agitators, however. that propaganda did not appear to make much headway.
 For many months government agents have been inside the councils of those who plotted amed insurrec- tion against British rule and have i discovered conclusive evidence that German money and promises of aid stimulated the conspiracies. Direct action to stop the intrigue was
 thought not advisable. inasmuch as the government did not wish to med dle in domestic problems of the Brit 1 ish empire. but the information gath cred was turned over to British rep resentatives in some cases. It is un- derstood that the recent arrest of a number of Sim Feinn leaders was prompted partly by evidence of Ger man-Irish plots discovered in this country
 1 Details of the evidence were not
 made public, it was explained, because a number of persons are still under
 surveillance. Some announcement O the reasons for arrests of the Irisi
 agitators is expected soon, however
 either in London or in Washington Officials tonight declined to indicate whether any statement might be ex- pected from the state department. The story of how the intrigue il this country was understood, was said
 would tell of many communication
 being brought into the United State in violation of regulations. Man.
 were written with invisible ink and fl
 code. When deciphered they fur !, nished clues leading to detection o
 many qualifications of the plot. Tn
 men responsible for the agitation were supplied with funds from de
 posits in banks where German repre- sentatives formerly kept their ac counts, or from mysterious sources
 The Irish radicals in their core spondence referred frequently to tn , promise of German aid in an uprisin which was to be called for this mont
 or next, when the Germans had ex 1 pected to reach the channel ports. Tn
 Germans then were to send arms an
 ammunition and possibly troops to tn , Irish coast.
 Many of the plans were melodra , matic in the extreme, it is stated an i involved all of the elements of fife r ton. They were so radical that gov ernment agents felt safe for a Ion s while in permitting the scheming e continue in the hope of detecting oth d CTS involved.
 The series of sudden arrests s Irish by the British government ma e hay eheen made when 1t finally pc y came evident that the rebellion wa
 actually to be started.