WOMEN ARRESTED

Stratford Evening Post, Issue 82, 4 February 1928, Page 5

WOMEN ARRESTED

ALLEGED OCITJNG TO MURDER. IRISH POLITICAL POSTERS. LONDON, February 2. Charged with conspiring seditiously to libel Governor-General McNeill, who was installed in office at Lienster House, Dublin, on Wednesday, and Mr Kenner, Minister of Justice, and also with conspiring to incite the people to murder Mr McNeill or others, two women, aged 52 and 39, who refused to give their names, were arraigned in the Dubli n Court to-day. The prosecuting counsel stated that the accused were previously charged with illegal billposting. In the present case they were charged with pasting up a document recounting how the Invincihles executed twoi English officials in 1882. another referring to the Phoenix Park murders and setting forth the English officials had more right to be in Ireland in 1882 than in 1928. They were being forcibly exterminated by the Gael Irishmen of 1882, who were manly enough to alvenge the massacres of Belmullet and Ballina, One of the McNeill’s was brought -in do. Foster’s and Cavendish’s work. The document reads: “Countrymen, when will you end the reign of British officialdom in Ireland? Who will avenge the murders of Mountjoy and Ballyseedy?” A third poster referred to the treatment of Mountjoy prisoners. Evidence was given that accused were seen posting up the notices. They were committed for trial, one of them remarking that the judge was wasting time. “What we did before,” she said, “we will do again. We will kick everything British from the country.”

They were rempved amid a demonstration by some women supporters.

HEALY ON DE VALERA. LONDON, February 3. When the Daily Express special representative at Dublin interviewed Mr Healy at the conclusion of five years at Governor-General of Ireland, Mr Healy was most candid and did hot mince words, especially with reference to Mr De Valera. He said jealousy, not patriotism, was the root of his position. He was vain and shallow, without a shred of ability, a man who insisted on splitting the 'lrish race by pretended intransigeance. His reign of terror in the name of the Irish Republic brought only bloodshed and ill-will. He was nothing put a barren impostor. “If his futile, costly rebellion in 1922 had not occurred,” said Mr Healy, “I think there would have years as Governor-General of Ireland, Protestants could not be expected to enter a State afflicted by a factionist, deadly outbreak organised by this so-called leader of the Irish people.”