While this singular Proclamation, a compound of menace and argument,
was being issued, the Irish police were arresting a largo number of the Shan Fein leaders in various parts of Ireland. Mr. De Valera, Count Plunkett, and Mr. Cosgrave, the three Shin Fein Members ; Mr. Arthur Griffith, who is said to he the brain of the movement ; the notorious Mine. Markievicz, who was condemned to death for her share in the rising of Easter, 1916, and was reprieved and ultimately released ; and Mr. Darrel Figgie were among the hundred and fifty persons taken into custody on warrants issued under the Defence of the Realm Act. The prisoners were brought to England and interned.. The attitude Of the Nationalist Party towards their Shin Fein allies in view of the Government's belated but none the less commendable action has yet to be defined. Mr. William O'Brien has urged the Nationalists to make common cause with Sinn Fein ; but Captain Stephen Gwynn, with more wisdoth and patriotism, has begun a new voluntary recruiting movement. We discuss the matter elsewhere.
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