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Show BRITISH PAPERS DISCUSS STATUS OF COL. LYNCH. Some of the London papers say that if Colonel Arthur Lynch, who has been elected to parliament by Gal way City, comes to England to take his seat in the house of commons, he will be arrested ar-rested for high treason. The colonel is now in Paris. As to his nationality, citizenship and legal status the Glasgow Glas-gow Observer remarks as follows: "Some of the daily papers have been discussing the nationality of Colonel Arthur Lynch, who fought for the Boers in their Irish brigade. Mr. Lynch is an Australian by birth. That would make him, in the eyes of British law. a British subject. Before he took the field for the Transvaal he became a Burgher,, and so a citizen of the South African Republic. That being so, the British might, with as much justice, jus-tice, attempt to hang Botha if they got him as hang Lynch. As Lord Roberts rather hurriedly annexed the Transvaal, Trans-vaal, that annexation in the fiction of the British law. if not in fact made Lvnch aeain a British subject. That he remains. Since he left the scene of action before the epoch of Kitchener's proclamation, it is difficult to see how British law can enmesh him. He means to come over from Pari-5) and take his seat, and notwithstanding the almost universal desire entertained in Great Britain to make a felon of him, it looks as if he had the law on his aide." |