SINN FEIN PLOT EXPOSED

Thames Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 18486, 30 October 1917, Page 3

SINN FEIN PLOT EXPOSED

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NEW YORK, October'2B

The United States and Canadian Secret Service have frustratedl a second Sinn Fein rebellion, planned 0 occur next Easter, on the" anniversary of last year's Dublin riots. Jerman gold was scheduled, to play 1 part, and the preliminaries! were napped out ready to be put into operation, when the Secret Service ■.nen stepped in and arrested "Generd" Liana Merlewes, one of the lead.tt's of the 191.6 outbreak, and Baron yon Reculingha.usen, who was , apparently instructed by Count Bern■rtorff to watch over Germany's interests in Ireland after Bernstorff had been ousted from the United States.

The Canadian authorities, acting >n information from Secret Service nen, arrested Dr. Parick McCaxton ipon his arrival at Halifax on a fraudulent seaman's passport. \fcGarton enjoyed the title of "Ambassador" of the Irish Republic to he United States. ■

It is commonly reported that Gernan agents are busy in Ireland, a,tempting to stij" up a. second outhreak, German cargo-carrying subnarines. landed machine guns and unmunition on lonely.inlets in the Irish Sea.—<A. and N.Z. Cable.