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

Strong additional evidence
that it is the purpose of the
r 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
large "Sin Fein Army" is un-
/ 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 a
formidable Sim Fein army,
which, when its armament is
completed will be capable of
settling the Irish question in an
Irish way, is revealed today by
the Daily Express.
If this situation develops,
adds the newspaper, England
will be faced with the neces-
!. sity of sending an army of $780,
600 to reconquer the island.
The article continues:
There is no doubt that the
Sim Fein army is a more ef-
ficent and powerful weapon
now than at any time in its his
tory.
In November, 1918, 1000
I; companies were in existence.
} There are more now organized
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
are extraordinarily keen, we'll
disciplined and we'll trained.
The bulk Of the Irish soldiers
demobiIized from the British
army have joined the RepubIi-
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 natl
showed more enterprise than any
he others. The British have be
the world for generatio
hat the whole trouble in Ireland "
Hence a Protestant rect
has been shot in a cablegram FRI
Belfast on October 26. It is as
ows:
"The Rev. E. A. Foy, rector of L
'adill, a lonely country district nc
Armagh, was shot by masked men l:
night and is in a critical conditi,
rhe masked men called at the hou
IN the pretense of borrowing mo,
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
,ion."
1t is safe to say right off that
Rev. e. A. Foy has been shot for |
itical reasons he has been shot
British agents in order to stir up
igious> strife in the north Of Irelal
Pogrom plots in Ulster have be
common during the last few gene
ions, and they have usually been 8,
:essful, but Ireland today diffe
greatly from the Ireland of any peri
,ince the flight of the earls. No LEI
,r since that time in Ireland b
spoken as Arthur Grifth did q 4
weeks ago. There Is at the disp0i
# the government Of the Republic
Ireland an Intelligence departme
r-As-1 d.