§ MR. LEAMYasked Mr. Attorney General for Ireland, If he will state to the House the number of arrests which have been made under the Coercion Act of last year, from the beginning of its operation up to the first day of the present month?
§ THE ATTORNEY GENERAL FOR IRELAND (Mr. W. M. JOHNSON)Seven hundred and ninety-four persons have been arrested since the passing of the Protection of Person and Property Act up to the end of February, of whom 587 were in custody on the 1st of this month, 15 of them having been re-arrested.