IRISH INTERNEES
FINDING OF ROYAL COMMISSION
THE MEN TO BE DETAINED
(UNITED PRS9B ASSOCIATION.— COPXRJBBT.)
(Received September 27, 11 a.m.)
MELBOURNE, This Day.
The report of the Eoyal Commission which inquired into the cases of the seven interned Irishmen states that there is no evidence that- the men were connected with enemy persons in trie Commonwealth, but the intenieee, who We members of the, Irish Republican Brotherhood, had collected money hereto assist an armed rebellion in Ireland, the money being expended in the purchase of war material from Germany, with which country the leaders of the movement were in communication. Cabinet has decided that the detention of the internees is to be continued. [The names of the interned men are: -^Albert Thomas Dryer, Edmund M'Sweeney, Michael M'Ging, William M'Cruinness, Maurice Dalton, Frank M'Keown, Thomas Fitzgerald.]
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Evening Post, Volume XCVI, Issue 77, 27 September 1918, Page 7
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135IRISH INTERNEES Evening Post, Volume XCVI, Issue 77, 27 September 1918, Page 7
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