Evening star., 1920-03-26
|ANOTHER UPRISING
BY IRISH DOUBTED
Question Asked in House of
Commons Gives Chance
for Explanation.
BY WILLIAM H. BRAYDEN.

| Cablegram to Tho Star and the CHI
caEo Daily News, Copyright, 1920.
DUBLIN. March s4.-In the house
| Of commons Clement Edwards asked
the chief secretary for Ireland
| plans for another Irish rebellion
Easter Monday: with simultaneous
risings in Liverpool, Manchester. and
| Glasgow, and whether tho German
| secret police Is believed to be behind
| the planned rising.
The question is not taken seriously
| in Dublin, where reports Of a rising
! have been familiar for the past three
years on the occasion OF every pub
lie holiday. but, as Mr.. Edwards is
said to be a friend and supporter o.
the prime minister. 1t is believed
that he is putting his question by
ARRANGEMENT to give the chief secre-
| tary an opportunity to expose the
seriousness Of the Irish situation.
l. Discoveries In Raids.
Recently the secretary said thai
there were 100000 Sim Feiners with
military training and apparently pos
session of enough arms to give con
siderable trouble. Constant raids ns
soldiers and police have resulted IN
the discovery all over the country OF
rifles, shotguns and revolvers kept
in defiance of legal prohibition. But
they have not come across anytnlns
that could be called stored arms. The
most important of their finds have
been quantities of melinite. The IRE.
quent attacks on police barracks ana
private houses by raiders In searcn
OF arms and ammunition Suggest
that preparation for an armed move
ment at some time or other is In con-
temptation. But 1t Is not likely 70
| be flxed for Easter Monday or any
day on which the government Is
known to be prepared. and II 1t comes
at all it cannot assume formidable
| proportions.
The government slackness that made
| the Easter week rebellion Of 1915
POSSIBLE has disappeared altoEether.
Then there were few troops in Ire.
land. with hardly any artillery. ana
more troops in Ireland than In any
other period of her history. They are
kept on the alert and have batteries
| of artillery with scores of atrplanes.
Then the assembly of armed forces In
military formation was permitted by
| the government as q sort OF harmless
rlay acting. Now a dozen men could
not assemble without provoking in
reference by police and soldiers.
Easily Called Out.
If anything. the government is over
prepared. The troops over and over
again have been held in readiness In
consequence Of bogus reports circu-
the military to turn out. The heads
Of the Sim Fein organization believe
that the authorities would rather like
another rebellion. which they could
suppress Immediately. The Sim Fein-
ers have warned their followers not
to be tempted into facilitating that
policy.
II any prophecy regarding Ireland
is safe it would be safe to say that q
fresh rebellion is impossible. But IT
lis not to be forgotten that people
talked the same way before the Eas-
ter week rebellion. and that then. as
now, the responsible heads Of the
Irish movement discountenanced an
armed revolt. Nevertheless It took
place. There may now. as then. be
an advanced party behind the scenes
All that can be said is that nobody
believes in it.