IRISH DEPORTATIONS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18355, 22 March 1923, Page 7

IRISH DEPORTATIONS.

DEBATE IN COMMONS.

PLEDGE BY FREE STATE.

HEARING FOR INTERNEES.

LABOUR ATTACK DEFEATED.

By Telegraph— Association—Copyright. (Received 9.5 p.m.) A. and N.Z. LONDON. March 20. Mr. W. T. Cosgrave, President of the Irish Free State Executive, - replying to Mr. Johnson, Leader of the Labour Party in the Dail Eireann, denied that the iccent arrests and deportations from England implied that British Ministers had authority in the affairs of the Free State. In the House of Commons a Labour motion for the adjournment of the House on the Irish deportation question was rejected by 266 votes to 147 after a debate marked by repeated Labour interruptions and Ministerial counter-pro-tests. The Speaker had repeatedly to intervene to restore order. The Labour members stressed the question whether the Government would be able to secure the return of the deportees if there proved to be no case against them. The Homo Secretary, Mr. W. C Bridgeman, denied that the Government had lost control of the deportees, in view of the pledges given by the Free State Government, which had undertaken that the internees should have every facility for personal hearing before the Advisory Committee. 'the Attorney-General also urged the sufficiency of the Free State pledge to hold the deportees safe from harm and to return them if the Advisory Committee so desired. Sir Kingsley Wood (Conservative) introduced a Bill into tho House of Commons to amend and limit the duration of the Restoration of Order in Ireland Act. The measure proposed to make it compulsory for the Home Secretary to notify the Advisory Committee of the deportation of any person within 24 hours, and for the committee to furnish a report within seven days. Until the latter confirms the deportation order no British subject shall be ordered to leave the country. . The Bill also proposes to limit the duration of the Act to 12 months. The Bill was read a first time.