IRISH INTERNEES

New Zealand Times, Volume L, Issue 11653, 18 October 1923, Page 5

IRISH INTERNEES

DEMAND FOR RELEASE GENERAL SITUATION QUIETER HAD FOR YEARS. HUNGER-STRIKE AT MOUNT JOY. By Telegraph.—Press Assn. —Copyright. Australian ani M.Z. Cable Association. (Received October 17, 11.5 p.m.) LONDON, October 16. Though the situation is quietc- than it has been for years, the continuance of rebel sentiment is shown by frequent demonstration? in Dublin against the continual imprisonment of 11.000 political prisoners. Four hundred ol these in Mount joy gaol at Dublin on Sunday demanded that unconditional release, and when this was refused, they commenced a hunger-strike, which , continues. RELEASE IN ULSTER. Meanwhile Sir James Craig has announced in the Belfast Parliament that--200 internees are to be released, and that blip" Government proposes gradually to release the reu.-aining -500, provided the political condition continues nqrnial . "A" vendetta against foimer members of the Constabulary has broken out in Donegal. Several ca-ses of firing into the houses of ex-constables, and of exconstables being ordered to leave Ireland have occurred within three days BISHOPS’ COMPLAINT. The Roman Catholic bishops have issued a denunciation of the (lister Government’s proposal to abolish proportional reprase-ntaltion. The bishops also complain of the new Ulster Education Act, which deprives the Catholic clergy of the influence in the schools which they had exercised hitherto. Lord Carson, when visiting Ulster, received a. rapturous reception from all classes. At Belfast ho was presented with an album in a silver casket which contained tho autographs of 125,000 subscribers. ' Lady Carson was presented with a rope of pearls. “SINGING m JOKING” DEPORTED IRISHMEN. EXCESSIVE CLAIM, Reuter's Telegram. (Received October i 7, 5.5 p.m.) LONDON, October 16. The hearing of the claim of Kathleen Mary Brooks, one of the Irish deportees, for compensation, was continued today. The Attorney-General contended that £IOO would be fair ’ compensation, instead of the £2OOO claimed. - A police matron said 1 that when the wofnen viere brought there they were singing aufi joking. Tho Attorney-General submitted that tho allegations of ill-treatment in Mountjoy gapl were irrelevant. Judgment was postponed.