CONSCRIPTION AND THE IRISH

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 185, 25 April 1918, Page 7

CONSCRIPTION AND THE IRISH

i ALL BUSINESS SUSPENDED 1 IN DUBLIN \ NEARLY 2,000,000 PLEDGES "j NEW YORK PRESS CONDEMNS "IRISH SLACKERS" j London, April 23. ! No trnins or trains Mere running in ; Dublin to-day. All large business houses ! arc closed, and no Nationalist newspapers nro being published. The Protestant i and Orange districts, however, are carry- . r ing on as usual. It is estimated that one ami a half million to two miilioii Irishmen a,re already pledged against conscription— Ans.-N.15. Cable Assn. ■ j KING'S COUNSEL AMONGST THE j PLEDGERS. , London, April 23. ! Sixteen Irish King's Counsel, includ- , ing several Crown Prosecutors, have ■ signed an anti-conscription declaration. • '.'.j A separate Protestant anti-conscription niovenient is obtaining increased support ; in many places.—R-eutor. , , \ 'scathing coiiw in America j New York, April-23. ' The "New York Times," in an editorial -I strongly supporting' conscription in Ire- j liind, says: '•'Some Irish politicians are l said to be nursing the mad notion that ! the people of the United States syinpa- j thiso with Irish slackers. Thcro was talk of sending an emissary here to so- j licit America's opposition to consorip- j tion. It v;ould be impossible for Ame- ■■ rica to receive him. The Chief Burgomaster of Berlin would he as welcome." —Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. ! —— j