Irish Pot Pourri

P: Mrs. Despard, sister of Field Marshal Earl French, had her bed carried outside the Kilmainham Prison, stating that she would remain in it on hunger strike until three women prisoners, also on hunger strike, are liberated.

P: Con Meany, Commandant of the Irish Republican Army in County Cork, one of the few remaining irregular leaders, was captured by Free State troops.

P: Irregulars fired upon a passenger steamer which was proceeding down the Suir river from Waterford. There were no casualties.

P: Dan Breen, formerly resident in Chicago, another prominent irregular, for whom the British Government once offered a -L-10,000 reward, was taken near Tipperary together with two others by Free State troops. When called upon to surrender he called out: " It's all right! I'm Dan Breen."

P: President Cosgrave, speaking in the Dail Eireann, said that he would introduce a bill to redeem the Irish

Dail bonds issued in the United States.

Out of twelve members of de Valera's Council of State only five are free, and three of these are abroad.

The Freeman's Journal, Dublin newspaper, points with pride at the imminent annihilation of the Republican Party and utters a warning: " The nation is at last master of its own house, and those who in future challenge that mastery by other than legitimate means must be prepared to abide by the consequences."