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Show DRASTIC STEPS II Arrest of Known Active Sinn Feiners Contemplated, Contem-plated, Writer Says. L"XI:uX, I-:.- I:i a d?p.h d-al- j with Uie Sinn m prohhrm in Ire- lar.d. the I nib! in ci'rr--spt.md'jnt oi Lhfe Kve;i:r.h' Standard ?uys it is no ser..-t in I lh.ibiin that the a .Hilarities a:e det.r- rrhnc-d to ha;ul.e :he. sif-.n ti':i with a -,t- ! tain amount oi ruthl'-ssness and to apply ap-ply draptl.j remedies to wli;'t they oon -sid-.-r a dangerous. dit-a?e. The correspondent says it is stated in quart-'-rs winch iiave the rc-piiUif ir.n o; hems he-ms well informed that the steps emt-remplatfd emt-remplatfd by the viceroy. Loni French, and his advisers fr r rstorini; ::-vnial 'ondition include t :v arrvst of ev.-ry ktiown active Sinn Fv.ner tlirunnhont the eonntrv. 'The vit--r Continues: "Considering the s'renuth of th- Sinn Fein movemeia, this in itself is a giizauti' task, and one v. limn the authorities are anvisrd will difih-uit f p-.Tforniamv, hut t fie advocn tes of a ch-an-sw.-ep pol-fv-v h-licvo it can effectively he don and refuse tn h diert'-d from thdr phi n by anv .-onsiderntinn o; the p.jlitica! or other efi'-t in Ireland or outside. "I am assured." omtinaes the rurre-snondent. rurre-snondent. "that Lord French, de-pit" his own discouT a frmr c periem es, is still an uniepentins believer in the prood sense and the LT-x-d v. hi of thie irajoritv o; his counrrym.-u. Tie holds that the Irish hirt outiirie-i by the render i;as a1! tuft cle-niei.th" cle-niei.th" or a permanent s'-Hlenient for 1r--h-inh if thi-r co-iriiry ets the opportunity |