OVER ONE HUNDRED ARRESTS.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 14609, 20 May 1918, Page 3

OVER ONE HUNDRED ARRESTS.

AUTHORITIES ACT .PROMPTLY .^ AND FIRMLY; (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) .-(Received' May .20',:71,1'-5 adtoj) ■ 7 LONDON, May 19. The Government's sudden display of firmness caused a sensation in Ireland, where the loyalists had been * alarmed by the Sinn Fein raids on •houses, for arms and the seizure - of farms without' molestation. The Sinn Feiners have long boasted that the' Government was afraid to interfere with them. The story of the arrests shows that the arrangements were skilfully planned and carried out like clockwork. The proclamation was issued at midnight of\ Friday, and arrests -began- immediately. Most were effected before dawn." Arrests were made in Dublin, Belfast. Kilkenny, Diogheda, DurtdalU, and many other places. Over one hundred haye been arrested up to the present,' most of whom were arrested during the Easter rebellion i.i 1,916. .yx y'y ,V*. ■ Military motor -lorries conveyed the arrested men , to Kingston, where, jthey were" embarked on a Gbvernmeut^ansport, which remains in the harbor. - The Sinn Feiners' -standing committee met in Dublin on Friday night. Most of the members subsequently wero ariested. >.'..-,.• The - police raided the organisation's . headquarters in Dublin, and seized books and documents. Wl»en 'they departed th© remaining) 'Sinn Feiners Vurig 'Oiit a placard inscribed/ "Business as msuai." De ValeraVwas arrested at- his home .at Gceystones iiaid the- Countesa. Mavckowitz at l-tathmincs at one o'clock in the morning. '-■'.'• 'YY,. ' \ '■'"''■'•' i>\ •"""•■ •/, The only resistance. was at Skiddei'oen, where Ted O'Driscoll and five others inhis hous« t .fought.,.the police. O'Driscoll received '.&• revolver bullet wound in the arm. • Patrick Hogan, head! of the Irish Volunteers in Casbel, evaded arrest, escaping through a •window, and running acroi-a 'the-;- tud joining oorivenfc - grounds- to open country. Lloyd's J^ews' Cork correspondent says it is stated there that prominent Sinn. Feiners had declared the Republicans had a gobd 'treaty with Germany', but the general public did not belieVe tlie statement. :-. ■ Latest reports show there iwas no excitement either in the North or South. The arrested men include Peter- Hughes, chairman of th'e Dundalk Urban Council ; George- Nicojsj coroner for' Qallwajy; George Geraghty, cliairman of Roscbriimoii Town Commission; Dr. Richard Hayes, Sean Milloy, and Sean meinbers of the Sinn Fein exeou^ye,^ai\<l a. number of captains of Irisfr'Vbluiiteers in the .provincial centres.