IRELAND AND SINN FEIN

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 86, 6 January 1919, Page 5

IRELAND AND SINN FEIN

REPUBLICAN CONVENTION PROPOSED , REVOLUTIONARY PLOT REVEALED, London, January 3. The Sinn Feiners are planning to hold' a convention in Dublin to a scheme for Irish independence. After negotiations by tho Lord Mayor of Dublin, who went to Belfast, the le--volt of the Sinn Fein prisoners ended. The prisoners will probably be removed to an internment camp. Residents of the neighbourhood' Wcft'e disturbed all night long by the Sinn Feiners in the barricaded fortress, who formed a bandwith piccolos and tin cans. : The prison authorities ; cut off the. gas and v ater supply.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. EVIDENCE W A PLOTAT A COURT-MARTIAL MILITARY, PLANS FOR, ARMED- , REVOLT,.. .. . ■ ' London, January 3 i Evidence of a. supposed jilot in Wicklow and Wexford was given at Dublin in the court-martial of John Gallagner,. a- hotel bookkeeper at Baltingiase, who was charged with possessing documents containing information, useful to the enemy. . - The prosecution quoted a document detailing* procedure by which on receipt of orders to strike battalion headquarters should be established' at L'altinglass, which would bo in touch with brigade headquarters. -The-police barracks, the railway, and 'the post office should be seized, and volunteers were' to soize, similar places in Wicklow and Wexford. "The document included instructions foi the- destruction of t'le great southern and western main roucls, the digging of trenches every half mile, the destruction of bridges, rolling stock, flax, and corn, and the erection of barricades. Gallagher refused ■to .itcogniso the jurisdiction of the Court.—Aus.N.Z. Cable Assn.