IRELAND.

Taranaki Daily News, 30 May 1916, Page 5

IRELAND.

THE SINN FEIN* STOBY OF THE MOVEMEK&. Times and Sydney Sub Services ~ , London, May 28. At the Dublin Commission Colonel Sir Neville Chamberlain, Inspector-General b of the Irish Constabulary, deposed that t the Sinn Fein movement, which con* 3 menced in 1905, was moderate at the s outset, but a council of extremists got - possession, freely circulating anti-English I literature. From the end of 1914 the 3 Sinn Feiners were closely associated 1 with the Irish Volunteers, and they found in Sir Roger Casement an agent - who did much to strengthen the cot operation with Germany. Witness he- - came convinced that Germany was fla-. ; ancing a disloyal organisation. ' c Major Price, an intelligence officer at f the Irish Military Headquarters, stated that between August and Norem-ber, - 1014, about 000 rifles were sold by an > English firm to the Irish Volunteers, As j a result of the Sinn Fein propaganda , the army lost 50,000 recruits. During s six months the Volunteers collected a ; fund of £20,000. The Sinn Feiners caps tured the Gaelic League, the Gaelic Ath- • letic Association, and the Volunteers. f They were unable to trace the receipt 1 of German money in Ireland, which came 1 indirectly, via New York. The Secretary-General of the ©ublin > Post Office stated that the conduct of ! the postal staff during the war. was • quite excellent. The staff numbered ! 17,000, and only 48 were under suspicion, j and some only slightly. r _ 1 BEBELS WITH GERMAN RIFLES^ London, May 28. i A number of German rifles were seized • among the Irish rebels. Those seized in : Wexford were mostly German. Lonal, the leader at Kilkenny, when arrested ■ surrendered a modern Lee-Enfield. Tie ; police .found in the houses of the psopiq ! stands of arms and bandoliers. ;