SINN FEIN

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 43, 14 November 1917, Page 5

SINN FEIN

I MEETING OF FIREBRANDS AT WATERFORD , POLICE OUTWITTED London, November 12. Large contingents of police and sol diers arrived at Waterford on Suturdv to enforco tho proliibition of the bum I'ein meeting. , _ .„., Mr, de Valera and Mr. Arthur Griffith arrived in the evening. Crowds of local: volunteers, Boy Scouts, and members of. the Sinn Fein Club welcomed and loudly, cheered the leaders. ' ' A procession was formed, many ot the-, men carrying thick sticks. Tho police: prevented a group of Kedmondites rushing De Valera in the procession. Gordons of police and soldiers with fixed! bayonets were posted at various point?! in the city. Tho leaders reached their I hotel safely. A meeting was held secretly in a iain-| storm in tho afternoon, three miles out-; side of the city. Six hundred Irish vol-; irateors attended. They outwitted tho j police by taking various routes. .There • were only ten policemen at the meeting.; Mr. do Valera, in a characteristic i speech, said that it only wanted arms! to make Ireland free—Aus.-N.Z. Cable. <l6sn. TRAITOROUS ALLIANCE WITH GERMANY New York, November 12. The Secret Service lias published two of the soized Sinn Fein documents. _ One i is an official account of the 1916 lising, and savs: "There w an existing agree : mont with Germany that, if the eourso of the war allows it, 6he will establish an independent Ireland." Tho Secret Servic3 possesses other docunionts which tend to show that several Sinn Feiners visited Germany last year to, arrange a new revolution. It is intimated that several women are playing important parts. ~'lt is revealed that several Sinn Feiners recently arrived in the United SUtes.-Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.