WRONGLY INTERNED.

Auckland Star, Volume LIV, Issue 110, 10 May 1923, Page 5

WRONGLY INTERNED.

THE IRISH DEPORTEES. APPEAL COURT'S DECISION. ENGLAND'S LOST CONTROL (By Cable.—Press AesoeUtlon.—Copjrlglit.) (Received 12.30 p.m.) LONDON, May 9. The appeal of Art O'Brien, one of the leaders of the Irish Self-Determination League, for a writ of habeas'corpus wa s granted. The Appeal Court held that the internment order wae bad, and in delivering judgment, Mr. Justice Bankea expressed the opinion that since the establishment of the Irish Free State the Home Secretary could not properly make an order for* the internment of a person In the Free State. The order deprived the Executive of England of the right to direct the release of an interned person, while an interned person wrb deprived of the particular form of control provided by the regulations. No order could be made for internment in the Free State which would comply with the regulations. It would eeem, from the Home Secretary's answers in Parliament, that he wae under the impression that he had not lost control of the internees, but according to Mr. O'Brien's affidavit he was now under the control of an official of the Free State, therefore the question could not be properly disposed of unless Jtho rule nisi were made absolute. Tl';s would give the Home Secretary an clportunity of making the position clear. Hβ added that it would not be out of place to observe that the practice of legislating by Order-in-Council was one which led to difficulties and dangers, of which the present case was an illustration. Justices Scrutten and Atwin concurred. The Attorney-General said that the decision, which wae a reversal of that given by the Divisional Court, raised questions of grave' import. It wae therefore the intention of those instructing him to carry the appeal to the House of Lords. Mr. Justice Bankes said that the Court anticipated that would'be done, and application would be made to the House of Lords to expedite the hearing — (A. and N.Z. Cable.) A JCHSEJt HUNGER-STRIKER. LORD MIDLETON'S SISTER. (Received 0.30 a.m.) LONDOX, May 9. Miss Aldina Brodrick, sister of the Earl of Midleton (Mr. St. John Brodrick'), who was arrested a fortnight ago while on cycling patrol for the rebels, has been hunger-striking in the Dublin gaol for 12 dayg.—(A. and N.Z. Cable.) PEACE EFFORTS IN IRELAND. I.R.A. NEUTRALS. ACCEPTANCE OF TEE TRUCE. LONDON, May 9. The special' correspondent of the Australian and New Zealand Press Association in Dublin states that the executive of the Association of Neutral Members of the Irish Republican Army has issued a manifesto calling upon the Free State Government to order the immediate cessation of all executions, arrests, and provocative military. activity. The manifesto states that the association is inspired to make this appeal by the fact that dc Valera's suspension of hostilities has created a better feeling throughout the country, and the intense •desire of the whole people is for pence. This association includes a large number of men who fought against the British in Ireland, and it exerts a good deal of influence throughout the Froe State.— (A. and X.. Cable.)