GERMAN AIMS IN IRELAND.

Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 302, 19 August 1916, Page 3

GERMAN AIMS IN IRELAND.

HOPES IN BRINGING ABOUT ANOTHER REBELLION.

"Ireland i.s, in the west and south, seething with a rebellious movement, scattered iv its elements, but awaiting the first opportunity to reunite," writes Major Darnley-Stuart-Steph-ens, in an article in the English Review for June. Major Stuarf-Ste'phens is of opinion that the Dublin fiasco has fry no means disposed of Irish conspiracy, but merely driven it into more subterranean "channels. "As long as this organisation exists the security of Ireland remains in deadly peril," he says. "The Grosser Generalstab in Berlin have, iv the Irish adventure, subordinated ..military policy to a political consideration, and the higher command still, from that point of view, look on a diversion in Ireland as being of the first importance. The Germans cling obstinately to the designs they have conceived., and which seem to them propitious from the very fact that they have germinated in their own minds. It is a fixed ieiea in Berlin that the Irish conspiracy will be' speedily reconstituted, so I expect to learn any day that ihe Kaiser's secret agents have' embarked upon a new career of activity in the perturbed sister isle, iv virtue' of the thor-ough-going Teutonic principle thai elements of trouble among the enemy must always be exploited."