IRISH AFFAIRS.

Colonist, Volume LVIII, Issue 14293, 23 December 1916, Page 5

IRISH AFFAIRS.

UNTRIED. REBELS TO BE

< RELEASED

MR CAMPBELL APPOINTED CHIEF

JUSTICE.

(Renter's Telegrams.)

(Received Dec. 22, 9.35 p.m.)? London, Dec. 21. In the House of Commons, Mr Dute, Chief Secretai-y for Ireland, announced that all.untried prisoners concerned in: the Irish rebellion were about to be released. - • . '

The ;Trishi Attorney-General, Sir -.T. H. Campbell, has been appointed Lord Chief Justice of Ireland. ' ;