THE IRISH CONSPIRACY.

Press, Volume LIV, Issue 16219, 23 May 1918, Page 7

THE IRISH CONSPIRACY.

REVEALED HY AMERICA

nble-FreM Asso-iation.— Copyright.) ami KX Cab'e Association.) NKW YORK. Mn.v 'Jl. i Dublin to the "Now \ork stntos that there is a strong Hussion that Washington officials -r'inil the information upon which ,J nr of the Irish :n rests were made, f report from Washington md.tt.tcs thr ramification- oi the Sinn I'ein £ cxUdcd to the Tnit.,l St.-.tos. sh P r,.' r; f »imans have hn acting as lS ent? fcnt'VCC'ii tl.o frtsn rebels and Germany.

t'XITKI) STATK**' ATTI'ITDT

WASHINGTON. Ma- Jl

t £ ir. authoritatively understood here ihit thr United Slates OovernmeiiD make clear its attitude tolardH the Irish Mutation. with due ,c----rjrd to tl'<- American troops lighting Jith thr Uritisli.

DEPORTATIONS DEXOUNC Ki)

( 'The Tiror* ")

LONDON. Ma~ lii. j|,p Dublin eorrcsnondeut ct "The fim „- siiv.i: Tlic .Mansion House eon[citihv fr "-'iay. those present including the Nationalist", .John Dillon. .J. Devlin. anil the Sinn Keitiers, Professor HeXeill and Alderman Kellv, issued a statement condemning as unconstitutional tin* deportations to England, and dpscriliing the Government action as ari attempt to dcscredit and disrupt Ireland's resistance of conscription and to prejudice the Irish nation among"! friendly countries.

THE COXSPIJIATORS' AIM

(Australian and N.Z. Cable A?6ociation.)

(Received May '22nd, 0.30 p.m.)

"U'ASIIIXGTOX, May 21

It is officially reported that the Secret Service lias discovered plotting between German agents and Sinn Feiners in the United States, their purpose being an uprising in Ireland coincident with a German landing.

Tho rocont wholesale arrests in [reland were partly duo to American disclosures.

SIXX FEINERS INTERNED

(Australian and K.Z Cablo Association.) (Receivod May 22nd, 8 p.m.)

LONDON, May 21. Tlio arrested Sinn Feiners have been interned at Frongoch, Merionethshire, except tho Countess de Markiewicz, who is in the Ilolloway women's prison, in London.