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Show I f IRISH PICKETS I j TO I CAUSE . ? Unique Method to Get Prop- ; aganda to English Diplo- fj mats Tkken in Nation's j Capitol. f Mi IH b NO "SKY COPS" ON JOB M J LAND PICKETS HELD In Government Plans Drastic Ac- ft tion to Prevent Insults j ' 1 M To Foreign Diplomats !; Vf: WASHINGTON, April G. ( (By the j t Associated Press) Barred from the w streets surrounding the British em-, I ft i bassy, the Irish pickets today took to J a the air. i From a flying machine, they rained' 3 down packages of leaflets expounding! s the Irish cause and challenged the po-)' p lice to come up and stop them. There!1 v being no sky cops in the national cap- I I ital, no arrests were made. Four lanJ , pickets, however, who ventured out 1 earlier in the day were arrested and ' held in the house of detenttion. 1 The "bombing" experition attracted ' 1 plenty of attention 4jut it registered no ft " t hits. A low visibility and squally wind3 ( k scattered the "bombs" everywhere but 1 r 1 on tha emhassv. 1 II ' "Bombs" Everywhere. 9 The propaganda leaflets whirled in M j a tiny snowstorm about the windows B i of Dolly Madison's house, half a mile, I off; circled Andrew Jackson's rocking! I horse in Lafayette Square, were al- If'" niost wafted into the White House h ' grounds by the gusty squally of early April and showered down on groups j j. of romping children in Dupont Circle. J Evidently somebody in the embassy j thought the pickets deserving of some award for the nervy effort, for late in the afternoon, as official Washington "as streaming homeward, and the diplomatic dip-lomatic corps was out for promenade, on Connecticut avenue, there appeared, Y' in front of a window of the embassy j J i one of the banners previously captured I from the militants. I I "Down with British militarism,'' was 1 1 the legend it blazoned out from the old 1 ) mid-Victorian mansion all evening. It j J furnished the capitol with a topic for discussion of British humor. 1 - But quite behind the curtain of good) 1 - natured banter which has accompan-' 1 ied the exploits of the pickets so far, f Is something more serious to which i the government is giving careful cou- . sideration. The international tinge of t the affair, officials feel, make it of t more moment than the demonstrations of the militant suffragists which were considered quite Important a year ago. The resumption of the picketing was marked early in the day by the arrest ar-rest of four woman pickets" on charges 9f violating the federal statute, making mak-ing it a felony to offer an Insult to diplomatic dip-lomatic representatives of a foreign government. I The women who were arrested, gave their names as:' Mrs. Homer Walsh , Gc-rmantown, Pa ; Miss Blaine Barrie I Philadelphia; Miss llylen O'Brien, St, j Louis, Mo., and Miss Kathleen O'Brien 1 Philadelphia. 4 The arrests followed quickly the de- 1 Clsion of United-States attornev Las- key that continued picketing "would provoke application of the federal stat-The stat-The first detachment of women picketed pick-eted the embassy at noon, bearing |