§ 67. Major NEWMANasked the Chief Secretary for Ireland whether he has received any report on the rioting that took place in Boyne Street, Dublin, on the 18th instant; whether houses of women whose husbands are serving in the Army were attacked and windows and doors broken; and will he say what action the authorities are taking in the matter?
§ Mr. DUKEI have received a report as to the matter referred to. Stones were thrown through the window of a shop occupied by a woman whose son is in the Army Service Corps, and the soldier's wife was attacked by the crowd Seven persons have been arrested and returned for trial.
§ 68. Major NEWMANasked the Chief Secretary for Ireland whether the individual responsible for the murder of Inspector Mills, Dublin Metropolitan Police, in Dublin on the 10th instant has been apprehended; and, if so, is he still in custody or has he been liberated with the Member for North Roscommon and other politicians who were present when the murder was committed?
§ 69. Major NEWMANasked the Chief Secretary for Ireland whether he will state the pension to which the widow and dependants of Inspector Mills, Dublin Metropolitan police, who was murdered in the execution of his duty, are entitled; and is it the intention of the Irish Government to make such pension or gratuity equal to that which the wife and dependants of a sergeant-major of the Regular forces killed on active service would receive?
§ Mr. DUKEI cannot yet add anything to the answer I gave to the hon. Members for South Tyrone and Dublin University on Thursday.
§ Major NEWMANMay I ask the right lion Gentleman to answer the last part of the question?
§ Mr. DUKEI told the hon. Member that I could not add anything to the answer that I gave on Thursday last.
§ 70. Major NEWMANasked the Chief Secretary for Ireland whether he has any information to give to the House relative to attacks made in Dublin last week on invalid soldiers and on the persons and houses of the dependants of soldiers; and will the Government ensure that the victims, if protection cannot be afforded them, are adequately compensated?
§ Mr. DUKEI have not received any reports of attacks upon invalid soldiers. There have been some cases of assault on the relatives of soldiers. These have been, or will be, dealt with by the police magistrates.
§ Major NEWMANIs it not a fact that the reason of these attacks was that these people displayed the Union Jack?
§ Mr. DUKEI am not sure about the particular cases to which the hon. Member refers, but certainly there were cases a week ago in which the display of the Union Jack was the occasion upon which violence was offered to persons who had displayed them.
§ Major NEWMANIf that is the case, will the right hon. Gentleman see that the Union Jack is flown from every public building in Dublin from now, at any rate, to the end of the War?