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Show SEPARATE NATION FOR SINN FEINERS DUBLIN, April 19, 7:22 p. m. The Sinn Fein convention met today at the Mansion House with Count Plunkett presiding. Two hundred and fifty-seven fifty-seven Irish public boards had been invited to send delegates, but two hundred of them declined to do bo. The attendance was Inrge, Including unexpectedly numerous priests, but no prominent Irish public men took part in the proceedings Tho convention proclaimed Iroland a separate nation and demanded representation at the peace conference, Arthur Griffith moved a resolution claiming the application ap-plication to Ireland of President Wilson's Wil-son's principle of national frocdom. 4 The Dublin trades council w'as especially es-pecially represented' at the conference Und Indorsed Its declarations. |