PRESS DELEGATES' VISIT TO IRELAND
SINN FEINIBMx PBEDOMINANT.
[ABSTMIIAIMIIW ZIAIAOT CAM ASSOCIATION.)
LONDON, 29th September. The Overseas Press Delegation has returned from a week's visit to ;Ire: land. They met ,-the protagonists: of all parties, including the leaders of the . Sinn Fein movement in Dublin, who ; frankly declared their wish to .establish a secure republic. They would even, accept German'aid to .• gain" their objec- . tive. Messrs. Dillon and Devlin acknowledged that Sinn Feinism was i>re- : t dominant ' throughout Ireland. They believed that the.introduction of; eon- [ scription will meet with bloody resistance.' The' 'delegates; found. "Ireland : generally remarkably prosperous. While the old party lines. were fiercely main- ~ tamed, the Labour movement, announc- '
ing jts. espousal; of Bolshevik ideas, is taking'shape, and promise* to influence the future development of Ireland in an important' manner. : ■..
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Evening Post, Volume XCVI, Issue 80, 1 October 1918, Page 6
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