THE IRISH PLOT

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 209, 23 May 1918, Page 5

THE IRISH PLOT

CONSPIRACY EXTENDED TO AMERICA GERMAN GO-BETWEENS Washington, May 21. The ramifications of the Sinn Fein plot, extended to tho United States where Germans acted as go-betweens lor the Irish rebels and Germany. It is authoritatively understood that the Government will soon make its attitude clear towards tho Irish situation, with duo regard to tho American troops fighting with tho British.—Aus.-N.Z. CaliJe Assn. THE CLUE TO THE PLOT AMERICA SAID TO HAVE PICKED UP THE TRAIL. New York, May 21. Tho Dublin correspondent of the New York "Times" writes that there is a strong impression that Washington sup. plied the information upon which many of the Irish arrests were inade.—Aus.N.Z. Cable Assn. PLANS FOR IRISH RISING AND GERMAN LANDING WHAT THE AMERICAN SECRET SERVICE DISCOVERED. (Rec. May 22, 9.30 p.m.) Washington, May 21. It is officially reported that the secret service discovered that plotting was going on between German agents and Sinn Feiners in the United States, tho purpose being an uprising in Ireland coincident with a German landing. The recent wholesale arrests in Ireland were partly ■due to American disclosures.— A us.-N.Z. Cable Assn. PRISONisINTERNED (Eec. May 22, 8 p.m.) ■ London, May 21. 'All the Sinn Feiners who were arrested have been interned at Frongoch, in Merionethshire, except tho Countess Markibwicz, who is in the Holloway Women's Prison in. London.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. CONFERENCE OF IRISH LEADERS DEPORTATIONS CONDEMNED. London, May 21. The Dublin correspondent of "Tho Times" states that a conference at the Mansion House to-day, including the Nationalists Mr. Dillon and Mr. Devlin, and Sinn Feiners Professor MTS T eil and Alderman Kelly, issued a statement condemning the deportations to England as unconstitutional, and describing them as an attempt to discredit and disrupt Ireland s wsistanco to conscription and to prejudice, the Irish nation among friendly countries—"Tho Times."