IRELAND

Southland Times, Issue 18846, 11 June 1920, Page 5

IRELAND

SINN FEIN JUSTICE. VOLUNTARY PRISONERS. (By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright.) (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association). LONDON, June 9. The Sinn Fein tribunal in County Clare sentenced three men to a fortnight's detention on Motion Island for refusing the tribunal’s order to rebuild a farm wall which they demolished. The constabulary learned of the incident and sent a boat to rescue (he marooned trio who. however, stoned their rescuer? and declined to be released, declaring themselves citizens of the Irish Republic. Therefore the constabulary bad nn authority to interfere. The constabulary withdrew. The prisoners had ample provisions. AMERICAN LABOUR ATTITUDE. A CONTENTIOUS PROPOSAL. NEW YORK, June 9. (Receiver! June 10, II p.m.j Mr Walsh at the Federation of Labour conference pleaded for a plank pledging full formal recognition of Ireland's elected Government by the United States. Telegrams from Montreal report vigorous opposition to the proposals of Irish sympathisers that the American Federation of Labour should demand the withdrawal of the British troops from Ireland. Sever:J Canadian delegates announced that they would combat such a move on British soil, while others intimated that they would withdraw if the question was brought up before the convention for debate.