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Show ASQU1TH DENOUNCES IRISH POLICY OF GEORGE Says It Constitutes Blackest Page in England's Rela- tions With Hibernia LONDON, Ftb. 1J.- H. H. Aequlth. former premier. In a speech today, attacked at-tacked the Irish policy of the govern ment. He declared that "the hideous blunder and crlmee com ml ltd during the last six months' were the blackest In the annals of England's relations with Ireland, and that never In the life of the oldest amnngtit them had Great Britain sunk so low In the moral scale i of nations." He described the Paris agreement on reparations aa " Impossible of fulfillment, fulfill-ment, and, he added. It waa an extraordinary extraor-dinary paradox, which would be comic. If It were not so serious, that the people peo-ple who were proponing; the antidumping; antidump-ing; bill, to exclude German goods from the British markets, were in the same breath asking; Germany to pay the indemnity in-demnity In coodn. SINN FEIN LEADER CAUGHT. DUBLIN, Feb. 1$. Ttflchael CoHvet, Sinn Fein member of the house of commons, com-mons, waa arretftrd today. He was returned re-turned to tha commons unopposed for Limerick City in Det-ember. 1U, while Interned In England. About half the area Invested by the military yesterday waa still occupied today, and the soldiers were extending their operations to tha Hummerhlll district. dis-trict. A vigorous search Is being carried car-ried out, many persons being detained) within the sone. j TRAIN HELD UP. BRLKAST. Feb. It Armed men boarded a freight train this morning j at Bally ha lee junction. County Caven, j and proceeded on It to near Ballyhuise, mi hara thav hclrl sin t hat anginMS a nrl I searched the train. The men threw Into th. river, goods destined for Belfast and rifled th. mall bags. RAIDS IN LIVERPOOL. LIVERPOOL. " Feb. IS. A new scheme, which the police believe ts intended in-tended by the Sinn Fein to prevent young Irishmen from emigrating to America and thua depleting th. rank, of the Irish republican army, was Inaugurated In-augurated her. last night when armed men raided three emigrant boarding houses and seised tickets and passports of a dosen Irish youths who were ready to sail today on the ateamer Carmania. Th. victims were ordered to return to Ireland Immediately. No personal Injury was inflicted on the youths, and no damage don. the houses. The raids were carried out by large bodiea of men. |