ARTHUR LYNCH.

Evening Post, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 58, 6 September 1909, Page 7

ARTHUR LYNCH.

ELECTED FOR WEST CLARE. By Telegraph.— Press Association.— Copyright. (Received September 6, 8.25 a.m.) LONDON, sth September. Arthur Lynch, who held a commission in the Irish Brigade and fought against the British in the Boer war, has been returned unopposed for the West Clare seat in the House of Commons, in place of Mr. J. Halpin, deceased. Mr. Arthur Lynch, who has been returned to replace a Nationalist, is an Irish Australian, born in Melbourne in 1661, who has seen much of the world. He was trained with the view of making him an engineer, but ho went to the Old Country and turned writer for the press, in various capacities, among them that of war correspondent on the Boer side in South Africa. He was credited with organising the Second Irish Brigade under General Botha, and with taking part in the fighting around Ladysmith. In 1901 he was elected (in his absence from prudential reasons) for Galway City by a large majority. Mr. Lynch continued to reside in Paris till xau2, when he revisited Britain and was immediately arrested and put upon his trial for high treason. He was convicted and sentenced to death, but the sentence was commuted to imprisonment, and he was subsequently released. The seat for Galway was declared vacant, and _ a Nationalist (Mr. Devlin) was returned without opposition.