IRISH UNREST
ANTI-CONSCRIPTION MOVEMENT BUSINESS SUSPENDED IN DUBLIN. Bj Telegraph—PreES Association—Copyright Australian and N.Z. '■"'nW<i "AwoMaUon. LONDON,. April 23. No trains or trams were running in Dublin to-day, and all largo business bouses are closed, and no Nationalist newspapers are being published. The Protestant and Orange districts, bowever, are carrying on as usual. It i s estimated that one and a-half million to two million Irishmen are already pledged against conscription.. NO TIME FOR."SLACKERS." NEW YORK. April 23. ■ The "New York Times," in an. editorial strongly supporting conscription in Ireland, says: ''Some Irish poiiticianjj are said to be nursing the_ mad notion that the people of the United States sympathise with Irish slackers. There was talk of sending an emissary here to solicit America's opposition to conscription. It would be impossible for America to receive him. The Chief Burgomaster of Berlin would be as welcome." IRISH KING'S COUNSEL SIGN PLEDGE. Heater's Telegrams. LONDON, April 23. Sixteen, Irish King's Counsel, in* (jludmg several Crown Prosecutors, Have signed an anti-conscription dev claration. A separate Protestant anti-conscrdp. tion movement is obtaining increased support in many places.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XLIII, Issue 9954, 25 April 1918, Page 7
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183IRISH UNREST New Zealand Times, Volume XLIII, Issue 9954, 25 April 1918, Page 7
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