IRISH AFFAIRS.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume V, Issue 1339, 29 May 1918, Page 5

IRISH AFFAIRS.

SINN FEIN PLOTTERS. I r> >> C«'4e. — Fret* lutein'*—, — CoryrijM I (Neuter) LONDON. V.» >: Mr J. Devlin (M.P. for Belfast», .addressing an anti-conscription demonstration of ln.(M)i) persons at Duncannon, said that Ihc soul of Ireland revolted against the claim of I the Lnghsh Government to conscript ! the Irish manhood. They denied the right of a foreign authority to impose a blood tax which Britain dared not enforce on her colonies. He demanded the trial of the Sinn I-einers by a jury of their own countrymen. BARRED FROM AMERICA. j AuttnUan and .VJT. CaUr .1...-T,..i I <noc. May 2<t, B.:*i LONDON. Mar 21 It is stated that the reason wh\ {the Lord Mayor of Dublin is not i visiting Washington is that he has received intimation that be will not | be permitted to enter the United , States. lit was recfiiUy announced that the Ijm-J Mayor of Dublin had heen granted his passports to g» to the United State* to explain the Irish sule »f the conscription question.]