30 MARCH 1918, Page 3

In the by-election on Friday week at Waterford, occasioned by

the death of Mr. John Redmond, Captain William Redmond, the son of the late Nationalist leader, was returned by a majority of 479 votes over Dr. V. J. White, the Sinn Fein candidate. The Sinn Feiners denounced Captain Redmond, who is in the Irish Guards, for holding a British commission. Their defeat—the second that they have sustained—seems to indicate that the tide of revolutionary sentiment in Ireland is ebbing. It was stated last Saturday that the Irish Convention had concluded its discussion on the statement received from the Grand Committee, and, " decisions having been arrived at on all material points," would consider a draft Report by the Chairman on Thursday next. This may mean much or little.