IRELAND.

Taranaki Daily News, 29 May 1918, Page 5

IRELAND.

DILLON DENOUNCES ARRESTS. TOLLY OF SLStN FEIN POLICY. London, May 27. An urgent meeting of the Nationalist partv has been summoned at Dublin for the 30tli. Mr. Dillon, addressing the Nationalists' ■ Conference at ftsillebcrousli. stronalv condemned the arrest* and official statements concernine them Mr. Llovd Oeonre was «r?ai'v mistaken if he thoneht his dctlnration would be accented in Ireland or by fair-minded people anvwhere. Mr. Dillon n«kcd if the Government rrallv expected Trelanor nny libertyloving wetlon or the British people, to believe that the Government would withhold evidence if it established the Sinn Fein'a, treasonable communication with the eatoy. Mr. Dillon added that the united Irinh opposition to conscription liad caused 1 tbe Government \a modify its attitude. Sinn Fein pLived into the Government's htr.ds. It was more concerned in dc«t roving the Irish Party than fiiliting for Irish liberties. The conference selected a Nationalist to contest East Cavan instead of Mr. Crfllths. the interned Sinn Feiner. Mr. Dillon, congratulating the conference, said then-hole wcrid would notice the decision. He disapproved of Mr. Griffiths' arr;«t, but was more t ian ever satisfied of the folly of Mr. Griffiths' policy. There is no indication that the Sinn Fein will withdraw Mr. Griffiths' nomination. The Nationalists are nominating Mr. C. Hanlcn.—Ans. S.Z. Cable Assoc.

tRIAL BY JURY URGEDMR. DEVON'S VIEWS. Received May 23, 8.10 p.m. London, Hay 27. Mr. Devlin, addressing an anti-con-scription demonstration of ten thousand persons at Dungannon, said the soul of Ireland molted against the claim of the English Government to conscript the Irish qumhood. They denied the right of a foreign authority to impose a blood tax, which Britain dared not enforce upon the colonics. He demanded the trial of the Sinn Feiners by a jury of their own countrymen.—Reuter. DEPORTATION OP ENEMY , INTERNEES. London, May 27. The deportation from Dublin of 450 Austrian and German civilian internees occasioned sympathetic Sinn Fein demonstrations.