The New York herald., 1921-01-09
SlVN FEIN PLANS
TO AID GERMANY,
TOLD BY LONDON
New British White Book
Shows War Treachery
Led by Easement.
AMERICANS INVOLVED
Directions Sent to Judge
COhalan From Berlin,
Via Embassy Here.
HOPED FOR SABOTAGE
Intercepted Notes Show 1t Was
Planned to Send Germans
to Ireland.
INVOLVED
HOPED FOR SABOTAGE

LONDON, Jan. s. Correspondence
which passed between the German
Embassy in Washington and the For
eign Office in Berlin, in which the
names of several sh-Americans are
mentioned to show active connection
between leaders of the Sim Fein and
the German Government during the
war, was issued by the Government
to-day in the form of a white paper"
After the arrival of Sir Roger Case
ment in Berlin in 1914 he sent mes
sages through the Foreign Office in
Berlin and the German Embassy in
Washington, according to these docu-
ments, to Judge Cohalan, John Dewey
and others regarding his mission to
Germany. This, it is declared, finally
led Count Won Bernstorff, then Ger
man Ambassador to the United States,
to send to the Foreign Office in Feb
ruary. 1916, a despatch "surrepti-
tiously attached to a message concern
ing the Lusitania," saying that Dewey
begin in Ireland on Easter Sunday
and asking that arms be sent to Lime
rick Good Friday or Easter Saturday.
This was followed by correspondence
arranging details Of the assistance the
Germans were to give.
Reviews Easements Trenchery.
The white paper makes reference
to pamphlets on the subjects OF Ire
land and Germany freedom of the seas
and others, nthe publication of which
Kuno Meyer, then professor Of Celtic
languages at Liverpool, and Sir Roger
Easement collaborated and which were
widely circulated in Germany and
America in bile
Sir Roger, who was in America at the
outbreak of the war, proceeded to Ger
many in 1914, maintaining communion
tion with Mr.. Dewey, who, the paper sG<s.
remained as chief agent in America in
the communications between Germany
and the Sim Fein.
Then follows textually some fifty
communications marked for transmits
sion by telegraph, by post and by hand,
from the beginning of September. 1914.
to the end of November, 1918, most of
them from the German Embassy in
Washington to the Foreign Office in
Berlin. Others were communications
from the Berlin Foreign Office to the
German Embassy in Madrid and from
Nauen to Mexico. Some of these were
marked Most secret
The paper concludes with appendices
setting forth a memorandum on the
organization of the Irish army. found in
the possession of Eamonn de Valera
when he was arrested and which is said
to have been in his own handwriting.
and a brief statement on Ireland's case
before the Powers to be assembled in a
peace conference.
Plan to SmuggIe Arms.
A Berlin Foreign Office message
dated August II (1915?). informed the
German Ambassador in Madrid that an
agent will shortly arrive from Buenos
Aires. You should at once communi-
cate his wishes and support him In
every way. He is instructed, after es-
tablishing communications, that the
first steps to take would be to organize
the smuggling of arms, &C., from South
America and the United States into Ire
land. An undertaking of this nature
must not be made from Spain. In the
second place the question arises of
sending them from Germany by the
Moewe or a submarine in event of its
being possible to fix the place and time
for landing them in good time. There
is no question whatever of landing
German troops in Ireland.
DIR. Alfred Zimmerman, then Under
Secretary Of Foreign Affairs. informed
the German Embassy in Washington on
November 3, 1914, that Easement has
arrived. His proposals are being care
fully gone into"