ARCHBISHOP HELD UP BY SOLDIERS.

Marlborough Express, Volume LIV, Issue 183, 4 August 1920, Page 5

ARCHBISHOP HELD UP BY SOLDIERS.

[Press Association.] .Aus. and N.Z. Cable Association. (Received Aug. 3^ 5.5 p.m.) LONDON, Aug. 2. Archbishop Barry, of Hobart, while -••visiting his, home at Middleton, i County Cork, in company with' "Father Braver, Archbishop Kelly s . .secretary, was stopped by a party ■ox Cameron Highlanders. The officer ordered them to. quit the motor-car and submit to a. search. Archbishop Barry protested, and proved his episcopal rank. The officer .sent a solder to a military post to obtain instructions. He Teturnedin jhalf an hour and the party were peiv. .mitted to pi;oceed. Archbishop Barry will- lodge a pro•tesifc.

Diarmuid Lynch, a Sinn Feiner, resigned his seat in Itho House of Oom'anons, owing to a difference of opinion with D© Valera about tlie Iris3i>Amerioan policy.