SINN FEIN ARMY NUMBERS 100,000.

Marlborough Express, Volume LIIII, Issue 82, 8 April 1920, Page 5

SINN FEIN ARMY NUMBERS 100,000.

A SPLIT IN THE RANKS

(Received April 8, 8.55 a.m.) LONDON, April 7. Irt>rii French further said '.fbnt Sinn Fein had now an organised army of I'OGjfi'OO men in regiments and brigades under disciplined officers. Most of the arms had tyeeh stolen, but they were a formidable army ■ The authorities had proof . legarding whence the money came, and knew who the three treasurers were. Two were famous men—one a well-known professor and the other a leading Catholic bishop. • Lord French said he was convinced that English opinion was being misled by exaggerated reports. England did not understand Ireland otic bit. Asked wh,n.t the end would be, Lord French replied: "There is dear evidence of :\ split, in the Sinn Fein ranks, which willprobabiv mean the undoing of four' Sinn Fein leaders •yho are behind the Irish murders, despite their attempt to throw the blame on other* shoulders. The Sinn Femers executed Mac-Curtain because he refused, as a brigadier of the Irish Volunteer, to sign the death warrant of a, certain man condemned to die.- This man was later found shot outside Limerick."