20 DECEMBER 1919, Page 1
NEWTS OF THE WEEK.
THE situation in Ireland has by no means improved, although on Thursday week the Government arrested several of the Sinn Fein leaders. The arrests were made in the early hours of the morning. Among the houses which were visited were those of Count Plunkett, Mr. Samuel Irwin, Mr. Thomas Kelly, and Mr. Michael Lennon. Countess Markievicz was staying with Mrs. Thomas Clarke, but she was not there when the police visited the house. It is said that about fifteen arrests were made. The arrested persons were brought to England in a ship of war. In the afternoon of Thursday week the Dublin Mansion House was surrounded, but when it was found that no illegal meeting was being held the soldiers and police withdrew.
