IN IRELAND. ESMONDE’S ARREST.

Hokitika Guardian, 6 April 1921, Page 3

IN IRELAND.

ESMONDE’S ARREST.

SINN FEI NEBS FAILED. AUSTItAIiIAN ANI) N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. (Received this day at 12.30 p.m.) LONDON, April 5. Sinn Feiners unsuccessfully attempted to blow ii]) Therlmere pipe line supplying Manchester with water. IDENTIEIED. (Received this day at 12.30 p.m.) LONDON, April <>. The Ashford victim is identified as A invent Fovargue, a prominent Sum l-'einer. He has been on the run lor some months. Evidently his death was the outcome of a Sinn Fein vendetta. HIRERXLAN RESOLUTIONS. CHRISTCHURCH, April G.

Hibernian Societies annual Dominion conference resolutiort'edThat in common with the overwhelming mass of the Irish people of the various faiths with representative English Liberal Unionists and Labourites, prominent English journalists, Baptist Union, Great Britain and Ireland and with seventeen Episcopalian leaders of the established Church of England, this New Zealand meeting of Hibernian Australasian Catholic Bom-lit Society, records its solemn protest agaiffst tho regime of militarist oppression and crime which has brought such bitter woe upon Ireland; thus meeting strongly affirms the just and inalienable right of the Irish people to control their own affairs; copies of these resolutions to be sent to the Prime Ministers of New Zealand and England, Cardinal Archbishop of Armagh, and President Hard, ing-

OTTAWA, April 5. Ksmonde’s arrest at Vancouver followed on a speech by Mayor Gale to an unemployed deputation. He strongly condemned the recent demonstration, including the singing of the Red Fiag. He then ordered tho police to arrest -Esmonde on a charge of sedition contained in the speech cabled on the 4th. Esmonde remained at Vancouver, notwithstanding his promise to depart for England immediately he landed.