14 JULY 1917, Page 3

The East Clare election, to fill the place of the

late Major W. Redmond, resulted in the election of Mr. de Valera, the Sinn Fein candidate, by 5,010 votes to 2,035. This great Sinn Fein majority of 2,975 was entirely unexpected, although it had been generally foreseen that Mr. P. Lynch, the official Nationalist candidate, would probably be beaten. The result is full of meaning. Many of the released Sinn Fein rebels have become leaders of the revolu- tionary movement which Mr. de Valera represents. The official Nationalist Party has fallen into extreme disfavour, and in its place we see men with both money (wherever it may come from) and power preaching Republicanism, Separatism, and hate of England.