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Show IRISH TAKE NO PART IN CORONATION SERVICES Dublin, Aug. 9. At a meeting of the Irish national parliamentary party held in the city hall here today John Redmond, who occupied the chair, said the party, as a party, had formally withdrawn from participation in the coronation celebration celebra-tion and had assembled for the purpose of protesting against the usurpation of Irish government by England. ' King Edward, he added, was not the constitutional monarch of Ireland. No English sovereign had been so since the union. A resolution which was adopfd declared de-clared that "Ireland separates herself from the coronation rejoicing of her merciless mer-ciless oppressors and stands apart in her rightful discontent and disaffection." John Dillon said England was unable to drag Ireland as a willing slave behind, her in the triumphal march through London Lon-don today. On leaving the city hall Dennis Kilbridge, a delegate, was arrested ar-rested on a warrant for failing to answer a summons to appear before the magistrate magis-trate of Temple. |
