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Show IRISH PICKETS TRANSFER flEHT TO C0M1E1T WASHINGTON, April 7. Bearing banners inscribed with quotations said to be taken from a recent speech by Secretary Colby, the Irish pickets today to-day transferred their activities from the British embassy to .the state department. de-partment. During the busiest hour of the afternoon, af-ternoon, the pickets presented to the gaze of homeward bound war workers, banners bearing the quoted inscriptions: inscrip-tions: , "There is not even a scintilla of legality le-gality in England's claim to rule Ireland." Ire-land." "The death of your martyrs, has called into existence millions of Irish by principle," and, "I cannot stand by mute and passionless pas-sionless while these votive offerings are laid upon the altar of patriotism" The banner bearers said the statements state-ments attributed to Secretary Colby were taken from his address at Carnegie Car-negie Hall, New York, May 14, rjVl At thc end of an hour, the pickets withdrew lo their headquarters. A squad of police appeared upon the scene as soon as the banners wore erected but no effort was made to interfere in-terfere with the picketing. Released on Bail Resumption of the patrol in front of the British embassy has been definite-fly definite-fly postponed until after the trial next Monday of the four pickets now under arrest. Arraigned before United States Commissioner Richardson, the quartet was released on $1,000 bail each, after pleading not guilly to a violation of section -1062, revised statutes, In having hav-ing "feloniously menaced bodily by violence the person of his excellency, the counsellor of the embassy and tho charge d'affaires of Great Britain, the, Hon. Ronald C. Lindsay.'; One of the four prisoners was pronounced pro-nounced "indisposed" after her release from detention. "Just an attack of woman's n erven" her colleagues said. None of the women offered any complaint com-plaint against food and lodging at'-1 forded them at the house of detention Plenty of Irish potatoes, they said, I were offered them besides Hungarian goulash and New England family din i ner. The state department refused to comment upon the system resulting fiom the transfer of tho patrol from' the embassy to the doors of the state 1 department. oo |