A recruitment meeting in Roscommon was disrupted by Sinn Fein activists until they were dispersed by a baton charge by the 6 policemen in attendance. One Sinn Fein protestor shouted,”We do not want German rule or English rule; we want rule by Irishmen”, to which Major Davey, the recruiter, retorted,”…do not submit to a policy founded by a Welshman and led by a Spaniard”¹.

¹Leitrim Observer, Saturday, November 16, 1918