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Show . v tr -. v y y cy -SP . g 1 v v" y gi v fM J ''BIG BILL" HEYWOOD AND MORE REDS INDICTED I i I LEADERS ARRESTED . m rain TiEi 1; TOUill'DPUCE j ; ; Government on Friday Ignores ' ; 1 Hoisting of Republican Flag j Over City Building ! 1 MEETING OF COUNCIL I j . BRINGS OUT HUMOR jjL Tom Kelly, New Lord Mayor, I W Now in Prison, Really Of-J Of-J ficer of British Army DUBLIN, Jan. 31. Many TllKf Sinn Fein leaders were arrested arrest-ed in a big- roundup early today. to-day. They were taken to an ; unnamed destination. DUBLIN, Friday. Jan. 30. It ap- j ; pcared tonight that the govornmenl j j had Ignored the hoisting of republican j I: flags on the city hall at the initial J 1 meeting today of the new municipal; council, which, is made up mostly of Sinn Feiners. The corporation offi-, cials say that the flags were riown ' from the building without their author- ily. . i A feature of the council meeting was the complete domination of the body by republicans, the temper of the 1 3L participants as manifested by angry i protests and the town clerk's disqual-ification disqual-ification of Mrs. Wyss Power, v.iio 1 was elected to the municipal council, j I ft because sh6 insisted on signing the ' I !r roll in Gaelic. About half the mem-' 1 bers of the council answered the-roll i 1 call. V Awkward Questions. J 1 A motion by the Irish transport ( L worker O'Brien to remove the sword ' 1 and mace on the ground that they i ' r were implements of feudal authority, i J, . relics of barbarism and perpetual J i . symbols of servitude, raised an awk-1 pr ; ward question because acceptance of o! ' the motion would mean repudiation of j -?j ; the traditional authority of the coun- if ell, which rests on British charters fc j ;, and British acts of parliament. I :? The situation "was saved by Alder-' ; man William T. Cosgrove, a Sinn Fein j I member of the house of commons, ,' ' upon whose request the resolution was I withdrawn. It will be raised again t ! and the question whether the council ' I; : means to continue municipal work or ' use the results of the elections solely ' i for political action will be determined. '3J I ' The Sinn Feiners are said to be cllvid- 'i cd on the point, but in political cir- 'i - cles it is expected that ' the council j h ; will settle down to business and obey i SS such British regulations as are inev- " ffi itable. s W The new lord mayor, Tom Kelly, I i now in Wormwood Scrubbs prison,-! I will not be compelled to take any ' I oath and it is one of the humors of ! jj the situation that under the charter j 1 a of Charles I he becomes nominally a 'j yL captain in the British army. Alder- man Cosgrove probablV avIH be ap- :i W pointed to fill the lord mayoralty as jj Kelly deputy while he is in prison. T'10 refusa oC tne council to ap- I a point a sheriff because this would ne- i cessitate swearing allegiance to the d it, king, is immaterial as the co-operation I )f of the council is not essential to the I 11 appointment of a sheriff. Kolchak Reported Bayonetted 9 & |