IRISH AFFAIRS

Press, Volume LIV, Issue 16257, 6 July 1918, Page 9

IRISH AFFAIRS

ARREST OF SINN FEXNERS.

(Ecutor's TelogrsmaJ

LONDON, July 4. The nol.'ce in tho South of Ireland aro actively arresting Sinn Feinera and flensing arms. They raided the houses of six prominent Sinn Feiners and seised rifles, ammunition, and volunteer uniforms.

APPEAL TO PRESIDENT

WILSON.

and N.Z. Cable Association.)

LONDON, JuTy 4. The Lord Mayor of Dublin, Mr John Dillon, Mr J. Devlin, Mr T. Healy, Mr William O'Brien, and tho Sinn Fein leaders, iii n message to President Wilson, say that England threatens to crush the people of Ireland if they do not accept a bJood-tax nu-ssago quotes the appeal which tho American revolutionaries addressed to Ireland in the eighteenth eentnry, and continued: '-If England had been able to conscript tho Irish race then, would tho United States enjoy its noblt> constitution now? Ireland as & nation 1 is more ancient than England, and throbs with national consciousness. Wo are now required by law to bleed to make the world safo for democracy in every country except our own. Surely this cannot be the meaning of Americas message to mai.kind. It is known that Australia and South Africa refused to adopt conscription while England lesolved upon such a law for Ireland. To overlay malpractice by imputing to tho victims perverse criminal conduct is. a State device of tyranny. We are as. sured that the President will not bi? among those condemning Ireland for determining to continue steadfastly her present course."