SINN FEIN IN THE LOAN MARKET

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 282, 25 August 1919, Page 5

SINN FEIN IN THE LOAN MARKET

SIX MILLIONS RAISED IN ■ AMERICA. London, August 22. The Sinn Fein Executive states that the Sinn Fein Parliament is issuing a loan to deveilop industries, to pay Consuls, and to establish a bank to enable untenanted lands to be purchased. Public bodies are being asked to state their coal requirements with a. view to oxtering a quantity from America. De Yalera's mission to the United Slates is described us a colossal success, and ho ilias been authoried to increase the American loan to twenty-five million dollar's (about six millions sterling).—Aus.N.Z. Gala!*; Assn.

LIBERTY HALL RAIDED. (Rec. August 2-1, 5.5 p.m.) London, August 23. ■Armed soldiers and police raided Liberty Hall in Dublin, and seized locked boxes purporting to contain trade union papers. They ailso seized a few firearms. —Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. De Valera's visit means the end of Sinn Fein influence here, and the only fear is that his blunders will injure genuine American sympathy with . tho legitimate Irish cause (writes Mr. P. W. Wilson in the "Daily. News" of June 2G, from New- York). To begin with, newspaper men have forced him. to confess that he is an American citizen, and not an Irishman,' and this point has an important bearing on American sentiment. His mother, Mrs. Wheelwright, married a seoond time, and is pure American. Next, in asking for hillf of it to be raised here, he cannot guarantee the interest, which is to be payable six months only after the British troops ovaouate the country. American journalists aro naturally much interested in this proposal. For the first time de Yftlera has had to face cross-examination. He denies that lie has received Russian or German money. When asked whether the suggested loan would be a violation of American laws, leading to serious complications with Great Britain, lie replied: "Tho law of humanity is 1 more fundamental, and 'I would appeal to that. When municipal and international laws conflict with humanity, regard them as no law." He was then asked: ''Will American money, obtained through Bond sales, be used to buy guns for tho Irish Volunteers?" Ho answered: "It will be used, for the Irish Republic," and, when pressed to say whether this included the. Maintenance of a military establishment, he answered: "It will be used for tho full administration of tho government of Ireland." These statements would appear to indicate an intention to foment trouble between the United States mid Britain, and it is significant that newspapers like the "New York Times," which most earnestly desire Anglo-American friendare giving de Valera the greatest prominence and emphasising his pronouncements, While in the current issue of the "New York Call," which is Socialist, he is left severely alone. De Valeira has the support of Judge 0 Oohnlan and the extremists, but men like Bourko Cockran and Justice Dowling'stand entirely aloof.