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Show DUNNE RETURNS PROM TRIP TO AID THE IRISH NEW YORK. July 8 Only "a &i-?unlic &i-?unlic miiitarv machine, equipped with machine un and armored cars" anr! "Imprisonment of their trusted leaders' can prevent the "full operation oper-ation of a republican povernment in Ireland." Edward F lunnp, former povr-rnor of Illinois, and one of three American d It gates sent abroad by the Irish societies of America to inter cede in benall of Ireland at the peace confen-nctr declared upon his arrival here today on tbe steamer La Saoie. With Mr Dunne came Frank P Walsfa anotber of the delegates, who also issued is-sued a statement predicting early success suc-cess of tho "Irish republic ' cause. The two delegates; who were preceded pre-ceded to ihe United States b several weeks by Michael Ryan, Ihe third member of the mission, were Riven an enthusiast Ic reception by a crowd of ' ral hundred persons. The reception recep-tion was attended by tbe waving of American and "Irish republic" flags and cheering for the delegates and fori Ireland The delegates drove Immediately Immed-iately to the hotel where Eamonn de Valera. "the president of the Irish republic" re-public" is stopping and were received by him Later they were Mr. du Va-Lera's Va-Lera's guests at luncheon. We are satisfied that our mission accomplished mos. if not all that we j set out to achieve," Mr. Dunne said. The case of Ireland before the world s peace conference was being deliberately ignored prior to our arrival arriv-al in Paris, and was being treated by England with her usual unconcern and contempt "Upon our Insistence, however, that it must be considered, the American mission made representations to ihe jL'.ntish prime minister urging that it should receive prompt consideration. The British prime minister thereupon expressed a desire to meet us in conference, con-ference, and pending the fixing of a date for this conference, gave us diplomatic dip-lomatic passports to visit Ireland, expressing ex-pressing a desire that we should visit all portions of that country, including Belfast "We went to Ireland and thus were able to slve resident Wilson, the American commission and to the world a true unvarnished story of English atrocities anil miiiiaiy misrule In Ireland. Ire-land. We compelled the castle authorities au-thorities in Dublin ;md finally the whole English and Irish press to take up and discuss openly Qio scandal of military occupation and oppression. We compelled them to admit that the right of trial by jury, the right of j habeas corpus and all the othrr safe-1 guards usually thrown around a people peo-ple in civilised countries had be D overthrown in Ireland, and that British Bri-tish domination was sustained only by the presence o an enormous army ol Occupation equipped with all Dim murderous mur-derous weapons of actual modern warfare, war-fare, "We have plainlv shown to th American commissioners that Ireland is not In the position of seeking favors fa-vors from England, but is in the position posi-tion of demanding from the world's conference recognition as a defacto and do jure government anri as basing the right to become a member of the league of nations We are confident of the outcome. Bight) P' f cent of the people of ire-land ire-land demand a republic and are endeavoring en-deavoring to function as a republic, and Its people will not be content wiih anything but a republic." |