SECRET WELL KEPT.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 14610, 21 May 1918, Page 3

SECRET WELL KEPT.

ARRESTS MADE QUIETLY. SOLELY BASED ON TREACHERY. .-Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.? (Received May 21, 8.45 a.m.) LONDON, May 20. Tha Daily Chronicle's Dublin correspondent says the secret was well kept. The arrests came « as a surprise to the affected persons;~"Ulso" to everyone outside Dublin Castle. The. printer of the proclamation was entrusted only.--witfe.7the headings- ■ and formal parts. • Afterwards typerwrittcui „ copies of, the efFectivif parts were pasted in' the blank space's/*- >. ' The -Dublin fesideait^ ' firstr'iritimatioii that anything- unusual had occurred was the continuous barking of dogs several hours ,after .midnight,, while mentor Jerries with the\ prisoueiis" .wtere being driven through the . streets to Kingston. Early risers, found, a large' number of soldiers guarding the jetty and learned' that the ■Sinn Feiners were aboard a warship. The arrests have nothing 1 to do with the anti-conscription -oarapaign, or th? Sinn Fein as an -organisation, or with .seditious speeches*- -Some "of the prisoners are not Sinn .Feiners. Every arrest was solely based on suspicion of treacherous communication with the enemy. It is -rumored that incriminating- documents were found, on a man, captured m a collapsible boat,-^also that there .was 1 anQth^r^cap'iure oß' Kerry. > • The correspondent stays: "I believe something > mp^ ; definite has found its Way -to the British Government fr.j>m a friendly country which exposed/, the earlier plots against the Allies always m- the nick of time. I firmly believe tiio prisoners will not be couft-riifirtialled or brought to public trial. Th<3 jjjrovernm'ent will scrupulously abstain from givnuj any cause for disorders , ampng the Irish public, .;■ / ■;''.■[ .',' , Irish newspapers unitedly i; deny ; ; that there is any pro-43ermanism m Ireland and state that "therefor© the Governbieut nuist recognise the necessity of juslifyinct the ia^Testa by the production of'satisfactory evidence. Tlie arrests- are A war measure and do not imply the revival ,pf the classes of Coercion .Act,; btit war measures must ■ be : well grouii'd^l. ■Tli? Gk)y.erninjßnt j must,. no|r. lose,- time m proving to Ireland' and' thb 'whole w^orld .thnt the plot |svgenu.ine.;:,jlt(j»iTinTpi"tunate that the belated grudging withdtawal y <yi conscription>- which^ the^roclamation announces, is annulled foi v tl»o moment by the sensational arrests and jdiscoyer^of a^plj^.,,,, , ,-