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Show Third Sinn Feiner to Be Re- jM turned to Parliament Im- jl portant Incident. PRESS IS ALARMED Consider Prospects of Irish Convention Seriously Im-paired Im-paired If Not Doomed. H LONDON, July 12. The election of 'H Edward De Valera as member of par- H liament for East Clare, the third Slna H Feiner to be returned to parliament i of late, Is treated as an event of greati H political consequence by the morning papers. The tendency of the Unionist press, reflecting their advices from Belfast and Dublin, is to emphasize what it always contended the folly of the government in liberating Sinn flH Fein prisoners and refraining to deal with revolutionary talk and acts as such would be dealt with in England, iH These papers regard the situation as 'H gravely threatening, for they see nothing in the Sinn Foln movement but rebellion. I The Liboral press also is alarmed but rather for the position of the ofn- cial Nationalist party and for the pros- , pect for the establishment oi conbui.u- tlonal home rule. One opinion seems common among all parties, namely that the prospects of the convention. in Ireland to consider home rule is ! seriously impaired, if not entirely . doomed. Another view is that tne election is an irreparable disaster foe : the Irish Nationalist party, which, I many Irish people complain, held the lH country for years in the dead hand ol I jH rigid machine policy. Expression of Discontent H The Sinn Fein movement is regard-" I 'H ed in the same quarter as an expres i slon of discontent and vehement re-sentment re-sentment of a long course of admmis trative folly, indicating rather a lacK of confidence with present parliament- ( ary methods Uian a revolutionary ten-dency ten-dency and in this respect resembling-a resembling-a state of mind which often leads , Prussian electors, who themsolves ara not at all Socialists, to support So- I clallst candidates at the polls. The Telegraph's parliamentary re-porter re-porter says all the Irish sections of the i house of commons regard the result as. i virtually a death blow to the Nation- l alist partv the end of constitutional agitation and the beginning of repub-llcanism. repub-llcanism. It is declared that no Na- tionallst sea outside of Dublin is now safe. The local correspondent at i Ennis quotes Professor De Valera as saying he does not Intend to take his seat in the house of commons. The Chronicle says the Sinn Femers; 1 receive enormous sums of money from the United States, much of it doubt-less doubt-less from German sources, which en- , ables them to conduct extensive propav I ganda. |