§ Mr. KINGasked the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland if he will state how many persons in Ireland have been during the years 1916, 1917, and 1918, respectively, apprehended and kept in prison or internment without being brought to trial; and how many of these persons are now deprived of liberty and kept in Ireland and Great Britain, respectively?
§ Mr. SHORTTIn 1916, 2,871 persons were interned in Great Britain and subsequently released without being brought to trial. In 1917 none were interned. In the present year seventy-one persons have been arrested, and are all of them interned in Great Britain.