§ Mr. NEWMANasked the Chief Secretary whether he has received a copy, or been informed, of a placard largely posted in county Tyrone and elsewhere in Ireland, and a leaflet of a similar nature circulated in Cork city and county, calling on the Irish nation to remember that she has no quarrel with Germany, whom England has ringed about with enemies, and to only offer to defend Ireland for themselves, and to refuse to be slaves and defend it merely for the English foreign nation, and to further prevent the youths of Ireland going forth to be made targets of and put in the front of battle; and, if so, whether he intends to endeavour to discover at whose 817W instigation and at whose expense placard and leaflet were circulated?
§ Mr. BIRRELLThe answer to both parts of the question is in the affirmative.