IRELAND CERMAN PLOT DISCOVERED

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LII, Issue 115, 20 May 1918, Page 4

IRELAND

CERMAN PLOT DISCOVERED

SINN FEIN LEADERS ARRESTED. DRASTIC MEASURES TAKEN". (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association LONDON, May 18. Documents regaling a vast lnsn. conspiracy have reached, the War Lam Ue i)e Valera, Griffith, and Countess Marslewitz have been arrested, i-t. w believed that the arrests prevented anothflv outbreak of rebellion in ■.IMWThe Irish arrests include William Cosgrove, Arthur Griffith, Thomas Dillon, and Barrell Figgis, members; ot the Sinn Fein executive, and. eignt. others. ' ' ■ A Dublin proclamation announces that a German plot 'has been discovered, and summons all loyal people to stamp it out. . ■._ Drastic measures are bonny \ M*en forthwith. ' A NATIONALIST .STATEMENTCReuter's Telegrams.) i ~~LONDON, May 18. Mr Dillon presided at a meeting of the Irish Parliamentary Party at Dublin, after which n statement was issued' declaring that thr> Government never really intended introducing and .passing a Home Rule Bill containing flhesli«htest hope. of settlement. ■ The Daily 'Chronicle states that the Government are considering (the 'expediency of launching av. scheme ot voluntary--'recruiting, in ..Irelaod on the lines of the Derby scheme. • In thy meantime the drafting of tilie Home Rule Bill is: progressing, \