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Show Shm Feiners Are Severely Condemned DUBLIN, Nov. 4. (Correspondence of the Associated Press.) The Sinn Fein agitation continues to steam without boiling over into actual rebellion. rebel-lion. The purpose of the Sinn Feiners is alleged to be to keep the nerves of the government on edge, to produce tho impression that they meditate very dreadful deeds, and at suitable moments to provoke the government action as an evidence that England is "holding down Ireland by force. Their notion is" said to bo that the military measures taken against them prejudice preju-dice England in neutral countries, and in Russia. Tho attitude of the military commanders com-manders is that it is their business to check anything that could facilitate another armed revolt The last time they were caught napping and besides, be-sides, incurred a formidable list of casualties in killed and wounded. The government had to' pay three million pounds because it was obliged to admit ad-mit responsibility for the failure to protect tho lives and property of peaceful citizens. They are resolved that that shall not happen again. That is why they havo forbidden drilling, or uniforms, or processions. A disciplined body of men marching in military formation, and trained to the word of command, even if armed only with hurleys couhi outmaster any local police force and control any town. Hence such processions ar,e prohibited. pro-hibited. Today there vere to be Sinn Fein national parades in uniform all over Ireland with, a great meeting- in the neighborhood of the Curragh camp. That has been prevented. The military authorities are particularly particu-larly keen on preventing the acquisition acquisi-tion of arras. The Sinn Feiners main hope of getting arms is not from Germany Ger-many but from the British army, and thero is a constant activity to steal or purchase arms from individual soldiers. sol-diers. For the present the government is in the position that through the convention con-vention it is offering the Irish people home rule. But the convention drags along without coming to a decision. It it should not form a plan of government govern-ment Ireland will be left where it was at the beginning, with the knowledge that thero can bo home rule for twenty-six counties, and that Belfast will not come in and cannot ba forced in The situation then would bo that tlje government would dq obliged to suppress sup-press the Sinn Feiners. |