AN IRISH GRIEVANCE
MIGRATORY LABOURERS ARRESTED FOR THE ARMY. (Eeuter's Telegram.) (Rec. August 15, 7 p.m.) London, August 15. Ijl tho House of Commons one of the Irish members complained that Irishmen who had been temporarily resident in England had been forced to serve in the army. Mr. Hugh Law (M.P. for Donegal) declared that men had been arrested in droves and marched through tho streets handcuffed. Mr. H. W. Forster (Financial Secretary to the AVar Office) said that if it could be proved tbat migratory labourers liad been improperly taken into the army they would no doubt be given an opportunity of obtaining their discharge.
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Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2851, 16 August 1916, Page 5
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106AN IRISH GRIEVANCE Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2851, 16 August 1916, Page 5
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