The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-01-09
PUBLISH PROOF
 OF |R|SH-GERMAN
 WAR CONSPIRACY
Details of Plot to Supply Irish With German Arms for Uprising in 1916 Are
 Made Public
By Associated Press

 which passed between the German em- bassy at Washington and the foreign of- flee at Berlin, in which the names of number of Irish-Americans are men ltioned to show active connection between leaders of tho Sim Fein and the Ger man government during the war, was ,s- sued by the government today in the form of white paper
 After the arrival of Sir Roger Case ment in Berlin in 1914 he sent messages through the foreign office in Berlin and 1 the German embassy at Washington, ac- | cording to these documents, to Judge 1 Cohalan, John Devoy and others regarl- | ing his mission to Germany. This, 1t IS declared, finally led Count von Bern storff then German ambassador to ens ] United States, to send to the foreign ol- 1 flee in February, 1916, dispatch sur 1 reptitiously attached to a message c0ti- corning the Lpsitania,' saying that De- vos had informed him of the rising to ! begin in Ireland, Easter Sunday, aha 1 asking that arms be sent to Limerick De- tween Good Friday and Easter Saturday. This was followed by correspondence ar ranging details of the assistance the Ger
 mans were b give.
 Tho white paper makes reference to pamphlets on the subjects of Ireland and Germany. freedom of the seas and others in the publication of which Kuno Never then professor of Celtic Ian guages at Liverpool, and Sir Roger Case ] ment collaborated. and which were vide | iy circulated in Germany and America l in 1911-12.
 BASEMENT TO GERMANY 1 Sir Roger, who was in America at the outbreak of the war. proceeded to Ger many in 1914, maintaining communities { tion with MT. Devoy, who. the paper says. remained as chief agent in America
 in the communicat ations between Germany
 and the Sim Feinn. Then follow tex ] tually some % communications markeu ] for transmission by telegraph, by post and by hand, from the beginning of Sep ! teuber. 1914 to the end of November, l1s1S, most of them from the German l embassy at Washington to the foreign office at Berlin. Others were commtni- | cations from the Berlin foreign office l to the German embassy at Madrid and l from Nauen to Mexico. Some Of tnese were marked "most secret
 The paper concluded with appendices l setting forth a memorandum on the or ranization of the Irish army. found in the possession of Eamonn de Valera 1 when he was arrested. which is said to have been in his own hand writing, and a brief statement on Ireland's case be- l fore the powers to be assembled VI a | l PLANNED TO USE SUB l Berlin foreign office message. dated August F 19l5), informs the German ambassador at Madrid that s'an agent will shortly arrive from Buenos Aires lYou should at once communicate ms wishes and support him in every way He IS instructed. after establishing com
 munications. that the first steps to take
 W ould be to organize the smuggling oi farms, etc. from South America and the :! Tinted States into Ireland. An under
 taking of this nature must not he made
 from Spain. In the second place the
 question arises of sending arms from
 Germany by the Moewe or submarine
 in event of it's being possible to fix the lplace and time for landing them m gooe
 trme There is no question whatever ol landing German troops in Ireland
 pr. Alfred Zimmermanr, then under
 secretarv for foreign affairs. informed the German embassy at Washington or November B. 1914. that Easement has ar rived. His proposals are being carefully
 gone into.''f the German embassy at Washington
 sent word to Judge Cohalan at New York follows:
 ALL REPORTED FAVORABLE
 ..They are ignorant here of the pur
 nose of my coming to Germany. He-t everything is favorable; the authoritle' fare helping warmly. Send messenger who has been fully Informed verbally
 to Ireland immediately. He should b' , native American citizen; otherwise hi arrest is likely.
 On December 14. the white paper in
 dicates. the German embassy at Wash
 ington sent the following message t'
 Sir Roger: s'There have been purchased for India
 l1;,oO rifles and 100000 cartridges. De ! ivoy doesn't think it possible to shil them to Ireland. I am trying to bu. } rifles for Turkey in South America. T Other correspondence contained in tn paper says that the Rev J. T. Nichol : son of Philadelphia. lis ready to star : for Germany and that Joseph Nectar l rity of Philadelphia. J. H. Keating o Chicago and Jeremiah O'Leafy of Nev
 York, "can give particulars regardini
 persons suitable for carrying out sa
 IbotAge in the United States and Can
 ada. 1"
 \ TWO HOUSES BURNED ' T Belfast. January 8.--Two houses a Camlough. south Arn,agh and propeFi
 beioneing to Sinn Feiners in the Newr! l,t,,r, Ia rf mt