IRISH AFFAIRS

Hokitika Guardian, 11 May 1923, Page 3

IRISH AFFAIRS

AUSTRALIAN ANO N.Z. CARLE ASSOCIATION. HUNGER-STRIKING. LONDON, May 9. Aldina Broderick, Mulleton’s sister lias been hunger striking for twelve days in Dublin. WOMEN PRISONERS ESCAPE. (Received this dav at 9.45 a.m.) LONDON, -May 10. Twenty-two women prisoners escaped by sealing the wall of Dublin ( nion Prison with bare feet. ’The troops pursued them and eapaured 18, but four got away including Marie. Comerford, a relative ol Sir Thomas Esmonds, and Kathleen Barry, sister of Kevin Barry, who was recently executed.

STATEMENTS IN COMMONS. (Received this dav at 9.15 a.in.) LONDON, May 10. M.r Hogg, Attorney-General, made a statement in the House of ('ominous, that the Government was appealing to the House of Lords in the Art O’Brien case, and hoped that the hearing would commence on Monday. Mr Baldwin, Chancellor, promised that the Opposition would he given a chance to debate the Note to Russia on Tuesday. ART O’BRIEN’S AI’BEAL. (Received this day at 12.45 p.m.) LONDON. May JO. The Attorney-General has appealed to the House of Lords against the Appeal Court’s decision in the case of Art O’Brien. He declared that the matter was urgent and asked for an early hearing. Viscount Birkenhead said that, as the issue involved the gravest public consequences they would take the ease on Mo nay and sit day by day till it concluded.