GERMAN AIMS IN IRELAND

Sun (Christchurch), Volume III, Issue 793, 25 August 1916, Page 3

GERMAN AIMS IN IRELAND

HOPES OF ANOTHER REBELLION "Ireland is, in the west and south, seething with a rebellious movement, scattered in its elements, but pwaiting the first opportunity to reunite," says Major Darnley-Stuart-Stephens, in an article in the "English Review."

Major Stuart-Stephens is of opinion that the Dublin fiasco has by 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, in 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 idea in Berlin that the I ish conspiracy will be speedily reconstituted, so I expect to learn any day that the Kaiser's secret agents have embarked upon a new career of activity, in the perturbed sister isle, in virtueof the thorough-going Teutonic, principle that elements of trouble among the enemy must always be exploited."