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IRELAND.

A SINN FEIN REBELLION. AIDED BY GERMAN GOLD. ■ NIPPED IN THE BUD. t Received Oct. 27, Bjs p.m. New York; Oct. M, The secret service frustrated a second Sinn Fein rebellion, which was'planned to occur next Easter, tha anniversary, of la|t year's bloody Dublin riots. German gold was scheduled to play a part, and the preliminaries were mapped oiit and ready to be put into operation when the secret service stepped in and arrested "General" Liam Merlewes, who' was one of the leaders of the 1916 outbreak, and Baron von Keculing Hansen, who was apparently Bernstorff's designee to wafch out for Germany's interests in Ireland, after Bernstorff had been ousted from the United States. , The Canadian authorities, acting 'on information from the secret service 4e< partment, arrested Dr. Patrick McCarton upon his arrival at Halifax. McCarton was travelling with a fraudulent teaman's passport. McCarton enjoyed the title of Ambassador of the Irish Republic to the United States. It lias been commonly reported that German agents have been busy in Ireland attempting to stir up a second outbreak, and that German cargo submarines.had landed mahcine-guns and ammunition in lonely inlets of the Irisli Sea.

SINN FEIN CONFERENCE*

DISLOYAL RESOLUTIONS OABRIBD,

. , London, Oct, 80. Six thousand seven hundred delegates to the Sinn Fein Conference met at the Mansion House, Dublin, including many young priests.

j The Convention unanimously adopted a provisional constitution .creating an independent Irish Republic and pledging the meeting to make- use of any and every means to render England's power impotent.

The Sinn Fein Conference passed a resolution that Ireland should present a claim for restitution and the-aeveranca of relations with England at the Peace Conference. It also recommended Iris]* trade, unions to sever their affiliation with English unions

The Countess Markievicz'a opposition [to the election of Mr MaoNeU to the i executive caused a scene She declared [that he spoilt the plans for the-Baiter rebellion.

Mrs. Clarke, widow of an executed rebel, also condemned MacNeU amid «xt citement, but his election was carried.

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Taranaki Daily News, 29 October 1917, Page 4

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336

IRELAND. Taranaki Daily News, 29 October 1917, Page 4

IRELAND. Taranaki Daily News, 29 October 1917, Page 4

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