§ Mr. W. THORNEasked the Home Secretary of the Irish Self-determination League was holding a conference at the Club Union Buildings, Holborn, on Saturday last, when a number of police officers attended and arrested Mr. P. J. Kelly, the president of the conference, who was taken to Scotland Yard in a taxi-cab; and the reasons why the police officers in question were ordered to attend the conference and arrest the president?
§ Mr. SHORTTThe facts as stated are correct. Mr. P. J. Kelly was detained in consequence of the outrages committed on the railways and elsewhere in the London area by persons connected with the Irish Self-determination League.