IRISH AFFAIRS

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 113, 6 February 1919, Page 5

IRISH AFFAIRS

THE REPUBLICAN MOVEMENT

SINISTER DEVELOPMENTS

THREATENED

By TcleEraph-Press Assopiation- : Copyrißlit London, February 3.

The "Daily News" col-respondent 'in Dublin reports that sinister developments threaten Ireland,, where action is imminent by both political ' and industrial ranks of the Republican movement. Batteries will be raised for the release of the Sinn Fein prisoners and for a forty-hour week, which will probably prove the rallying ground for three-quar-ters of the population. The Sinn Fein executive, which until Friday night had the best possible reason to believe that the prisoners, of whom thirty out of ninety a.re members of the House of Commons, would be immediately liberated, now know that there is little prospect or their, liberation. Accordingly (lie Sinn Fein executive will go ahead-with its plans, which were matured weeks ago. The Fenian section of Hip Sinn Fein now has complete control, while the extreme Bolsheviki cnlirol.v control the Labour side.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. SINN FEIN LEADERS ESCAPE FROM PRISON. London, February i. De Vnlera, Milroy, and M'Garrv, Sinn Fein leaders, have, escaped from Lincoln prison.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. INTERNEES TN ENGLAND TO BE RELEASED. (Rec. February 6, 1.25 a.m.) London, February 5. The Sinn Feiners interned in England will be released on Monday.—Renter. THE SINN FeTnTeMBERS OF PARLIAMENT ABSENT FROM OPENING CEREMONY. (Rec. February (i, 1.10 a.m.) London, February i. Tho Sinn Feiners were absent from the opening of Parliament.—Reuter.