| Show I SINN FEIN WILL WIN SAYS DUNNE Envoy Returns Declaring 80 Per C Cent of Irish Firm for Republic New ew York July 8 Only S-Only Only a gigantic military machine equipped with machIne machine machine ma ma- chine guns and armored cars and Imprisonment of their trusted leaders leaders leaders lead lead- ers can prevent the full lull operation of ot a a. republican government in Ireland Ireland Ireland Ire Ire- land sal said Edward F. F Dunne today to ay The former governor o of Illinois w was s 's sone one ones of fr three American delegates sent abroad b by the he societies Irish s of America Amer Amer- ica lea to Int intercede Id hi b behalf har o of Ireland at tho the peace conference L He He arrived here on tho the steamer La SavoIe Frank P. P Walsh also Issued a a. statement predicting early success o of the Irish republic cause The two delegates were given gl an enthusiastic enthusiastic- sJ Uc re reception by a crowd d of r several hundred persons persons The Tho recep cep eption ep- ep tion wa was attended b by the waving of ot American and Irish republic flags I and cheering cheering- for tor the delegates and for tor Ireland The Tho delegates ates drove Immediately to the hotel where Eamonn De Do Valera the president of ot the Irish republic Is stopping sloppIng and were received by him Later they were ere Mr Mi 11 De Do Valeras Valera's guests at luncheon Satisfied d Says H Dunne Wo We 0 are aro satisfied that our mission accomplished most If Ir not all that we set et out to Mr Dunne said s ld The case of ot Ireland before the worlds world's peace conference Was being deliberately l ly Ignored prior to our arrival arrival ar ar- ar rival rl In Paris and was ns being treated b by England with her usual unconcern and contempt Upon our Insistence however hot that It Il must be considered the tho American commission made representations to tho British prime minister urging that It should receive prompt consideration The British prime minister thereupon thereupon thereupon there there- upon expressed a desire to meet us In conference and pending the fixing of ofa ofa ofa a date for tor this conference gave us diplomatic dIplomatic diplomatic dip dip- pa passports sports to lo visit Ireland expressing expressing ex ex- pressing a desire that we should visit all portions of that country Including Belfast Wo 0 went to Ireland and thus were able to give I e to President Wilson the American commission and to the world a true unvarnished story of ot English atrocities and military misrule In iii Ire Ire- land Compelled d A lon We compelled the castle authorities In Dublin and finally the whole English Eng Eng- list lish and Irish press t td take up and discuss openly the scandal of ot military occupation and oppression We 6 compelled them to admit that the right of ot trial b by Jury Jun tho the right of or habeas corpus and all the other safeguards safeguards safe guards usually thrown around j a people In civilized countries had been 1 W over over- A in aria ana indi domination was sustained only by the tho presence of or an enormous army of ot oc occupation occupation oc- oc equipped with all the murderous murderous mur mur- derous weapons of actual modern war war- fare tare We e 0 have plainly shown to the tho American commissioners that Ireland Is not In the position of ot seck seeking In favors from England but hut Is In tho the position of ot deman demanding ln from the worlds world's conf conference confer confer- rence r- r ence once recognition ns as a n dc e e facto and de Ce Jure government and as having the therl rl right ht to become a member of ot the league of ot na nations Ve We are nrc confident of ot the tho outcome Eighty Eight per cent cant of ot the people of ot Ird- Ird land demand a n republic rel nn and are en endeavoring en- en to function as a n. republic and anil Its people will not be content with I anything but a republic I The Tho English government o now I stands at tho the bar In tho the court of public pub pub- lie lic opinion and must before many I months withdraw Its army of or occupation occupation tion lion and allow the Irish nation to goen govern gov go o en ern tho the Irish people or bo ho convicted of tyrannical misgovernment such as does not exist elsewhere elsen In Europe or i America |
