Arizona republican., 1919-07-09
IRISH REPUBLIC
 SOON A REALITY
 SAY DELEGATES
Representatives to P e ac e Conference Return to U. s. Highly Enthused With Achievements Con- fident of Ultimate Success of Overtures
[Repubhcan A. p. Leased wireI

NEW YORK, July S.-"Only gi- Eantic military machine, equipped with machine guns and armored cars and Imprisonment of their trusted leaders can prevent the full operation of republican government of Ireland, Ed ward r. Dunne, former governor Of Illinois and one of three American delegates sent abroad by the Irish societies of America to intercede in behalf of Ireland at the peace confer ence, declared upon his arrival here today on the steamer La Savoie. With Mir. Dunne came Prank P. Walsh, an other of the delegates, who also issued a statement predicting early success of the Irish republic" cause.
 The two delegates who were pre- ceded 10 the United States by several weeks by Michael r. Ryan, the third member of the mission, were given an ent nthusiastic reception by a crowd of several hundred persons. The recep- tion was attended by the waving ot American and Irish republic flags and cheering for the delegates and for Ireland. The delegates drove imme- diately to the hotel where Eammon de Valera, the president of the Irish re- public is stopping and were received by him. Later they were made de Nalera's guests at luncheon.
 Satisfied With Achievements
 We are satisfied that our mission accomplished most, if not all, that we set out to achieve" MT. Dunne sa'e.
 "The case of Ireland before the worlds peace conference was being de- ibetately ignored prior to our rival ir Paris. and was being tr ated l'y England with her usu1l unconcern and contempt
 Upon our insistence however that if must be considered. the American commission made representations tc the British prime minister urging tat it should receive prompt consideration The British prime minister thereupou expressed a desire to meet us in con ference, and pending the fixing of date for this conference, gave us dip'o- matic passports to visit Ireland, ex- pressing a desire that We should visit all portions of that country, including Belfast.
 Present Full Conditions
 We went to Ireland and thus were able 10 give to President Wilson, the American commission and to the world, a true, unvarnished story of English atrocities and military misrule in Ire land We compelled the castle authori- ties in Dublin and finally the whole English and Irish press to take up and discuss the scandalous military occu- patton and oppression.
 We compelled them 10 admit that the right of trial by jury, the right of habeas corpus. and all the other safe guards usually thrown around people in civilized countries had been over thrown in Ireland and that British domination was sustained only by the presence of an enormous army of Oc- cupation equipped with all the murder ous weapons of actual modern warfare
 We have plainly shown to the American commissioners that Ireland is not in the position of seeking favors from England, but is in the position oi demanding from the worlds conference recognition as a de facto and de jurC government and as having the right tC become a member of the league O nations.
 Confident of Outcome
 We are confident of the outcome Eighty per cent of the people of Ireland demand a republic and are endeavOrinf 10 establish a republic and it's people will not be content with anything bu a republic"
 Mir Walsh asserted that despite MT Lloyd Georges declarations that Eng land does not seek yard of territory since the war England has not onl! suppressed the movement for a fre Ireland but has seized vast terrtor. in Egypt, German East Africa, German Southwest Africa. German Samoan Islands, Naura, the Bismarck Archi pelego, in the islands of the Solomon group, and the German portionso Ne7 Guinea
 "The strategic advantage won b, England through the seizure of thi territory is the rape of Egypt, and tn transfer to England of Turkeys powe in relation to the Suez canal, gives he practical control over every drop 0 salt water in the world and makes no only the Mediterranean but all the sea mere British lakes.
 England Dominates League
 England. likewise is dominant in tn control of the league of nations. Si Eric Drummond being given the secre tariat. he is now perfecting his or ganization in the shadow of Westmin ster Hall in London.
 ''This secretariat control is secon only in value to it's acquisitions of ter ritorial riches. European statesme agreed that the secretary of the leagu of nations will be a more powerft factor in holding England's imperal istic gains and furthering her aggres sions than would be the control of clear majority of the representative of that body in which England alread has five to Americas one