The Irish standard., 1919-11-08
NEW EVIDENCE OF PLAN
FOR VIOLENT REcoNQUEsT

Strong additional evidence
= that it is the purpose of the
= British to embark on a cam
= paign of wholesale slaughter
= in Ireland is contained in a
Universal Service dispatch
= which was received after the
= article below had been written.
= This dispatch is dated London,
+" October %.
= The Daily Express story of a
y large "Sin Fein, Army" is un-
4" doubtedly part Of the propa-
ganda now going on as prepara-
= ton for active warfare by the
= British against the Irish peo.
/" pie. The dispatch follows:
The secret building up of
. formidable Sim Fein army,
= which, when its armament is
= completed will be capable of
: settling the Irish question in an
y Irish way, is revealed today by
the Daily Express.
If this situation develops,
= adds the newspaper, England
y will be faced with the neces-
=" sity of sending an army of $780,
" 900 to reconquer the island.
= The article continues:
y There is no doubt that the
= Sim Fein army is a more ef-
= ficent and powerful weapon
= now than at any time in it's his
= tory.
= In November, 1918, 1900
*, companies were in existence.
- There are more now organized
y into battalions and brigades
!. under commanders and with
+ full staffs. There are technical
troops, chiefly engineers, trans
port service and ambulance
corps.
"The total strength of the
Sem Fein force may be put at
~ between 10000 and $4,000 men,
" of whom 1000 are in Dublin.
"The military value of the
force is considerable. The men
Is are extraordinarily keen, we'll
* disciplined and we'll trained.
The bulk Of the Irish soldiers
IS demobiIized from the British
81 army have joined the RepubIi.
s. can force, giving it foundation
Of experienced veterans.
"The extent to which it is
+ armed is unknown, and we be-
lieve that the British Intelli-
* gence Department has no trust
worthy information. The army
expects to complete its arma-
* ment from the British garrison
by strategem.
"Sinn Fein intelligence men,
# some of whom wear British uni
forms, know exactly all the To-
cations of British supplies and
+ all the details of the British
army"
-
The next dispatch of this natu
showed more enterprise than any
the others. The British have be
assuring the world for generatio
that the whole trouble in Ireland W
religious. Hence a Protestant rect
has been shot in a cablegram fro
Belfast on October 26. 1t is as I
lows:
"The Rev. E. A. Foy, rector of L
sadill, lonely country district ne
Armagh, was shot by masked men IL
night and is in a critical conditit
The masked men called at the hou
on the pretense of borrowing a mot
jack, and escaped after the shootil
"Mr. Foy's two sons joined t
British army in Canada early in t
War, one of them gaining a comm
sion."
1t is safe to say right off that
Rev. E. A. Foy has been shot for l
litical reasons he has been shot
British agents in order to stir up
ligious> strife in the north of IrelaI
Pogrom plots in Ulster have be
common during the last few genel
tions, and they have usually been s,
cessful, but Ireland today diffe
greatly from the Ireland of any peri
since the flight of the earls. No LEI
er since that time in Ireland b
spoken as Arthur Grimth did . Il
weeks ago. There is at the disp0a
Of the government of the Republic
Ireland IN Intelligence departme
CnmA:,o1 IN pnse1 z.