OCR Text |
Show PROFESSOR EDWARD DE VALERA, president of tho no-called no-called "Irish republic," who has landed in the United States. 1 1- r ' ' I ' DEWEU HERE: MSJUIETI-Y "President" of "Irish Republic" Re-public" Expected in New York City Today. NEW YORK, June 21. Announcement Announce-ment was made here today that Professor Pro-fessor Edward De Valera, president of the Irish Sinn Fein republic, bad landed in America and would be in New York City Sunday. Bolaud said that De Valera would come out of retirement Monday afternoon, when he would talk with newspaper men and disclose to them how he succeeded in escaping from the British isles without having received passports to this country. ROCHESTER, X. Y., June 21. Mrs. Charles Wheelwright, mother of Professor Pro-fessor De Valera,. when shown a dispatch dis-patch concerning the announced arrival of her son in America, said at her home here today she had not heard from Professor Pro-fessor De Valera since his imprisonment imprison-ment in Lincoln prison. England. Mrs. Wheelwright declared she did not believe be-lieve he had landed in America. De Valera 's mother resides in Rochester, N. V. Boland himself came to America under the guise of u fireman in the stokehole of a ship which docked in New York early i n M ay, he said, his purpose being to art as advanced representative rep-resentative for De Valera. Poland is a mem her of the British parliament, representing the Sinn Kcin-ers Kcin-ers of South Roscommon, and is secretary secre-tary of the binn Fein organization in Ireland. Discussing the league of nations today, to-day, Boland declared il would condemn Ireland lo pcrpetua I slavery, and that Ireland's chief objection was to article X, which, he said, guaranteed the integrity in-tegrity of the British etn pi re. Boland said if was not yet knowu how long He Valera planned to remain in the i nited States, but that he ex- (Contlnued on Page 4, Column 5.) DEIEIIIEPI;. msDuiEnjf! "s I (Cont'nu-'.i fiavi Fagc one.) pee ted soon to go to Washington. r would not disclose 1 V V alera s present location. XKAV VOiiK. .June S 1 . ' hort ly after the mv:- w:is nia-1'' onldii- hr?e lhati rrol'esnr Kuwai'd 'aleia. president I of the Irish republic, is in this count rv," a cable message from Frank P. Wals'.u in Pari:- hailed the depart ui oj' John I A. Murphv ol" lulValo. X. V., fn,- Franc; ! aboard tho liner !''.- ane. " Mr. Mi;r- ! phy was o h:' t' i "i n d i ih Anieriean j mission in ije-iaU" vt' Ireland. j T. S Ti'ii1" wlto wris t' hae n to Paris as an assistant secretary to the American mission, also turned back when the cablegram was received. "So explanation was given as to why the two had been requested to remain on United ytates soil. It was inferred by persons identified with the friends of Irish freedom that "something has happened' in Paris that made it imperative im-perative for Murphy and Trig to remain re-main here. In other quarters friendly to the Irish cause, Mr. "Walsh 's. cablegram cable-gram was construed to mean that the Germans had signed the peace treaty, and that, accordingly, further Jnsh representation in Paris being futile, the pendulum of Irish activity had swung to the American capital. |