SINN FEIN AGITATION.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 17321, 22 May 1918, Page 4

SINN FEIN AGITATION.

GOVERNMENT PROHIBITION EXPECTED. LONDON, May 20. (Received May 21, at 8.20 p.m.) The Sinn Fein Emergency Executive, which was nominated before the arrests, assumed control. It is expected that the Government will prohibit Sinn Fein agitation. CHARGES AGAINST ACCUSED. EARLY FORMULATION URGED. Router's Tfilpprams. . LONDON, May 20. (Received May 21, at 8.20 p.m.) Newspapers urge the necessity of the Government immediately formulating charges against the Irish who have been arrested, and expediting the publication of material facts, so as to give the accused a full and fair opportunity of making their defence. PRESS COMMENT. FIRM TREATMENT URGED. BUT PROMISES MUST BE REDEEMED. Renter's TelcgTams. LONDON, May 20. (Received May 21, at 8.20 p.m.) The Daily Telegraph says the supreme mistake of successive British Governments during the past decade has been to allow British authority and law to fall into contempt. The Daily Telegraph congratulates the Government on having at length determined to end open treason in Ireland. have cast the net wide, and we hope there will be no more pitiful surrender to a clamour for the release of conspirators as political prisoners The Morning Post says : "The arrests are an excellent step towards the reestablishment of firm Government in Ireland. It complains that the Nationalist leaders are left to carry on a seditions agitation against conscription.' The Daily Express says: "The crazy Sinn Fein plot must be crushed, but we hope and believe that the British people will maintain the attitude of friendship and sanity so forcibly expounded by General Smuts. Pledges to the Iriit pooplo must be fulfilled." EVIDENCE OF COMPLICITY. EARLY PUBLICATION PROMISED. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association and Renter. , LONDON, May 20. t (Received May 21, at 9.30 p.m.) It is understood that evidence of the complicity between the Sinn Fein leaders and the enemy is being prepared, and will be published shortly. THE SINN FEIN EXECUTIVE. ONLY SEVEN NOT ARRESTED. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. LONDON, May 20. (Received May 21, at 11.40 p.m.) The official members of the Central Executive of the Sinn Fein totalled 30, and only seven are not arrested. These include two women and three priests.