Arizona republican., 1921-01-11
if PRESIDENT IF IRISH REPUBLIC"
 DENIES GERMAN IRISH PLOT n
 INTERFERE WITH BRITISH PLANS
GRepubllcan A. P. Leased Wlrel

Republican A. P. Leased Wire1
 DUBLIN, Jan. 1.-Eamonn de Va lera, the Irish republican leader, broke his silence today with a formal state ment vigorously denying the alleged Irish plot against Great Brit ain and attacking the governments white paper issued Saturday, con- cerning such a plot.
 "Thero was no such thing as this German plot in 191S," says the state ment. T have asserted this fin Amer ica time after time. now repeat it here.
 From July. 1917 I was intimately in touch with all the major activities both of the Sim Fein political organization and the Irish volunteers and so I speak with knowledge and authority. Lord Wimbourne (then lord lieutenant of lreland)-not MT. Lloyd George-told the truth on this matter. The general character of this report its total lln- tfustWorthiness and it's obvious pur- pose to bring to play on the side of the authors of the present military Lrlghtfulness in Ireland all the preju- dices and hatreds of the past war can pc ihlerred from the portions that have reference to me personally.
 For example: Firstly, the document on army organization attributed to me ana said to be in my hand writing is not m my hand writing. as they could easily have seen. Further. it was neither composed by me nor composed at my suggestion, nor was 1t on my person. 04 my
 q suggest that representative Amer lean or continental press men ask Lloyd George to let them see the orig nal document or photographic copy or IL; It won't need any expert to de- eide that the writing is not mine. When that Is done I will give a full history of the document, supported bv proofs that will be conclusive.
 The way the British cabinet has impressed this document into it's ser vlce' might be taken as a standard to plots. s''o4i
 Secondly, the press already has com mented on the fact that although names were given without reserve snrOugnout the report a letter found III my possession is referred to as iron, q 2, known member of the Irish repub- lcan army. It will be interesting to know the reason for this
 ms letter was handed to me while preslolng at meeting a few ho,,rs oeIore my arrest. Ct might have come i LiOyu George himself or from " sSiil@l ulscoverer of the German blot through the contents ana ,o c1u though the document seemed ., ,.o Par rticular consequence. being if oono eIne' nothing more than the writsy,s o"h views on the situation ne var,o.-.,s. crlptlon and steps that vera bai,.-. taAeh to meet it--as a safap,,a.s se se Tile writer from the attentiors os .,.o - rtIeish; should they get the Iattar plhehed off the signature Tb,s L
 ..SyS'. 9ysh IT the original is examined .co,,1,,a,,N4Sy, as To the document m " us'.iiu q uulcations.' It was given to raa as basis from which Inte.il. eo me .o t work up system of coro r',,.si.'-l ss ssele stons s. which was needed by tha Mar ,-StI. mousse conference in connactiov, ,-i n their work, in view of the tbroa, sSS entorcement of conscriptinn
 In all probability I would sIts- (.
 A'.'Nh lhat the system when act,,aiIs, sel up would have but slight raIstfo, " the scheme as outlined in thfs nro- o bos''I insofar as this whole renort tc .,.o eieIehce sIsle to incidents subseouent sir,,lIs ,Ie I'tn or July. know that if is slIuply a piece of the same shaar a,,- 9aelty In lying Of which inc n-osas.. Drilsh ministers have given eviderra respecting Ireland in their public state ment day by day statar,ant. which were designed to deceive thaiS own S people no less than the peoples of foreign nations. i-eS VI We who know the truth and xea now deliberately these gentlemen dISS tort 1t do not forget this fact when lestimating the probable honesty of so- called offers and proposals emanatinr q
 The case Of the Cotter brothers ,s another instance Of how eagerly fin the essence or evidence of any real blot tne brlush government press into their service every chance occurrence and document that comes their way if fl purpose"
 James and Richard Cotter caaI,c league organizers. were arrested fin Dublin in May, 191S.)
 The statement, which was given out officially through the Sim Fein pnb- | ncity department, was made exclu- sively to the American newspaper cor respondents in Dublin. IL will not be issued to the Irish and English news papers until tomorrow.
 1 It is considered here that any doubt which may have existed regarding Mir. | De Nalera's presence fin Ireland has been cleared up by this communiaue.
 The Associated Press was informed | that the statement was dictated by De Valera in Dublin today It was further | stated that De Valera had not intended to make public a statement before is suing his manifesto which has been so long awaited, but that he felt the necessity of coming out with a denial of the alleged German plot while the ! ArfrkW ta r-v4w ag4N A.