Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 64, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 November 1919 — ADMIRAL SIMS [ARTICLE]

ADMIRAL SIMS

The Irish national bureau, which is working in this country for the independence of Ireland, has asked that Admiral Sims be disciplined because he charged, in a recent article in World’s Work, that the Sinn Fein in Ireland were during the war actively pro-German. They were so much so, says the admiral, that they assaulted American sailors in the streets of Cork. So serious was the situation that it was found mecessary, in order to avoid trouble, to keep the Americans out . of Cork. Admiral Sims was on the ground,

and the American people will accept him as trustworthy authority. If the bureau wishes to put itself on record as favoring the American cause in the war that will be welcomed Indeed. But Americans have not forgotten the proved plottings of some of these Ston Feiners with Germany, the conduct of Sir Roger Casement, the efforts to seduce Irish prisoners in Germany—which utterly failed—and the activities related by the admiral. The record is made, and it is too late to revise it. In order to vindicate the Sinn Fein who assaulted American sailors Daniel T. O’Connell, spokesman for the press bureau, insults this country and its navy. There were attacks on our sailors, he admits, but these were prompted by "the determination of the Irish to protect their women”! No defense against this silly charge is necessary. It need hardly be said that there were hundreds of thousands of Irishmen who fought in tlje British and American armies, and that these *men were more bitterly hated by the Sinn Feiners than any others. We do n.ot think that there is any probability that Admiral Sims, a brave official and one who served with distinction? in the war, will be "disciplined.”—lndianapolis News.