SINN FEIN IN ENGLAND.

Auckland Star, Volume LI, Issue 103, 30 April 1920, Page 5

SINN FEIN IN ENGLAND.

CORDON ROUND A PRISON. FREE FIGHTS AT WORMWOOD j SCRUBS. j (By CaUis.—Press Association. -Copyright.) (Received 10..",o a.m.) LONDON, April 20. Disorderly scene* continued at Wormwood Scrub.-' prison yesterday. Over a thousand Irish sympathisers marched to the prison in military formation mid formed n cordon around the gaol, women accompanying them in strung force. Anti-Sinn Feiners attacked the cordon with stones and clods of grass. During the free fights fiix were injured. Tim Sinn Feiners threaten that to-morrow opponents will =cc thai Irish boys can light. "Freeman's .louriial" reports a remarkable sound to tin- Mill Street raid ■on Monday. A large portion of the money will now he returned to the banks from which it was stolen. The captors also offered to hand over the thieves, and to furnish evidence, but the hanks replied that they were only able to deal with the Crown in such affairs. ("Time?.") The Irish Dominion League is not supporting amendments to the Home Bule Bill because the. measure is inconsistent with the fundamental features of the Dominion settlement. Count Pliinkett has cabled to Mr. Hughes and other Dominion Premiers expressing the belief that the fundamental principles of the Australian Constitution am essential to Irish welfare, and protesting against the imposition, under militaristic coercion, of a bill exacting an oppressive annual tribute and perpetuatini; partition. The League, relies on Australia's support for Ireland's demand of Dominion status, with adequate safeguards for minorities. (A. and K.Z. Cable.)