§ 46. Mr. KINGasked the Prime Minister whether he has noted the allegations, suspicions, and recriminations arising from the fact that many Irish citizens, men and women, are detained in custody, restricted in their correspondence and their friends' visits, and not allowed to appear before any public Court to rebut the charges against them; and whether he can give an assurance that after a limited period 300 no Irish subject shall be detained in prison without the option of having a charge preferred against him in a Criminal Court?
Mr. SAMUELThe Prime Minister has asked me to reply to this question. I made a full statement on this subject on the 26th July, and I would refer my hon. Friend to that statement and to answers which I have given on several occasions in reply to questions.
§ 61. Mr. FFRENCHasked the Home Secretary if he is aware that Edward Foley, Wexford, now detained in Frongoch Prison, took no part in the Sinn Fein disturbance and that he had ceased to be a member of the Sinn Fein Volunteers previous to the rising; if he will say how many persons from South Wexford are still detained in prison owing to the Sinn Fein disturbance; and, seeing that the National Volunteers of South Wexford are still volunteering for the front and that they assisted the forces of the Crown to keep order during the rising, if he will consider the advisability of liberating the few remaining prisoners?
Mr. SAMUELEdward Foley of Wexford is being released on the recommendation of the Advisory Committee. Of the persons from Wexford who the Committee have recommended should remain in internment, only three appear to come from the southern part of the county.