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New Zealand Tablet, 25 March 1920, Page 13

Of the 09 Sinn Fein members of Parliament, no less than 03 have, since their election, been imprisoned— of them imprisoned several times. Thirty-eight of these wore imprisoned for as long as 12 and 18 months without any trial. And none, of all the 03 got a jury trial. The Irish Chief Secretary, lan Macpherson, when heckled in the House of Commons, about imprisonments, tried to save himself by the utterance of a deliberate falsehood. He said Sinn Fein Al. P.'s were imprisoned for inciting to murder. from the day of their election to the present day such charge has never been levelled against one of them. Arthur Griffith, the vice-president of Sinn Fein, vigorously replied through the press to Macpherson’s outrageous untruth. Tie stated the bald and eloquent facts in the case. And he showed how those slandered men who had been imprisoned (without trial some, and after mocktrials others), “comprise barristers, solicitors, doctors, professors, manufacturers, merchants, landlords, farmers, jounalists, shopkeepers, and public officials. They comprise representatives of every class and creed in.lreland—Presbyterian and Episcopalian, as well as Catholic.