LATE CABLES

Evening Star, Issue 17327, 15 April 1920, Page 10

LATE CABLES

n , . LONDON, April 14. The ‘Daily Chronicle's’ political correspondent understands that the f!o’, eminent have decided that com os-sinus shall be made in the case of interned under the Defence of the Realm Act. ■'■'ir Neville M'Cready has gone to lieland. He crossed the Channel in a destroyer Lord Byng has been offered the post of Chief Commissioner of the London Police in his place. The ‘ Daily Chronicle,’ in a leader, justifies the non-release of Sinn Femora. stating : “They could not be put on trial because every man who gave evidence against tliei.i would be murdered, and every Judge and juryman concerned in their conviction would be marked for the same fate. We are facing murder and conspiracy on tiro largest scale. It cannot be dealt with by the ordinary methods of Taw. Nobody likes this, but no practical alternative has been suggested.” * ' . The ‘ Exchange Telegraph’s ’ Dublin correspondent reports that the Mount-joy prisoners will be released immediately. In the Commons, replying to Mr 1\ P. O’Connor, Mr TBonar Law announced that the Irish Government had decided that persons arrested and detained by order of tho military authorities would in future be given ameliorative tieatmeut from the date of arrest until convicted. They would be treated entirely differently from convicted and untried prisoners. WASHINGTON. April 14. ' President Wilson presided over a Cabinet, meeting, which was summoned special ’.v to appoint a board to endeavor to settle -the railway strike, now involving 100,000 men. LONDON, April 13. Official : Lord French has ordered the release of the hunger strikers in Muuntjoy Prison, whose condition was medically regarded as dangerous. The trade union strike has been called off.—Times. CAPE TOWN, April 14. In the Assembly General Smuts announced the reconstruction of tho Ministry. Mr H. Burton, K.C., takes the portfolio of Finance, Mr F. S. Malan Agriculture, Miens, and Education, Sir Thomas Watt Railways, the Interior, an 1 Public Health, and Mr Jacobus Graaf Post and Telegraph. General Smuts also announced that Sir - Thomas Oxt and Mr H. C. Van Hecrdcn had resigned their portfolios, and added that no other changes weie intended, but that the door was left open for a. rearrangement, so in. to .secure a parliamentary majority on the lines of ins recent proposals to the party leaden,. Thus, excepting for the redistribution of portfolios and tii; ics-igm-dions of Sir Thomas Orr and Mr Van Heerden, the personnel pf the .Ministry remained unchanged.—Reuter. ~ .. . -p,-, , . ~ .. LONDON, April 14. .. Mountjoy Prison continues to be tne object of pilgrimage of thousands ox irishmen. Despite tanks, machine guns, barbed wire, and soldiers witl fixed bayonets making it impossible to get near the gaol, processions o’ grim-faced _men, orderly and silent, constantly march to the gaol and bad again. . This passive demonstration is curiously impressive. Apart from the processions, thousands of working men and women are standing all day around the troops, who number at least 1,000. Occasionally the mob threw mud at the soldiers, who retaliated by threatening the crowd with them bayonets, but there has been no bloodshed. On the whole, the Sinn Feiners have behaved with restraint.