On Wednesday evening it was known that the whole policy
as regards the untried prisoners in Ireland had been reversed, and that a large number of the hunger-strikers had been released and sent into various hospitals. Nor is this the sum of the contradiction and incoherence. The most painstaking student of the recent succession of events will not be able to make head or tail of much else that has happened. In this disorderly array of events, however, we will try to take the different points as far as possible in their order. In the House of Commons on Wed- nesday Mr. D. Henry, the Attorney-General for Ireland, ex- plained that there were eighty-one untried prisoners in Mountjoy Prison, and that twenty of these had been interned under the Defence of the Realm regulations. All the others were awaiting trial—not necessarily before a jury, it might be before a Court- Martial.
