Norwich bulletin., 1920-04-07
Irish Tickets Use Flying Machines
Challenged the Police to Come Up and Stop Them-Rain- ed Down Leaflets.

Washington, April 6.-(By The A. F. Barred from the streets sur- rounding the British embassy, the Irish pickets today took to the air.
 From flying machine, they rained down packages of leaflets, espousing the Irish cause, and challenged the. police to come up and stop them, As the national capital lacks sky cops, T no arrests were made. Four land plckets, however, who ventured out earlier in the day. were arrested and
 held in the house of detention.
 The bombing" expedition attracted plenty of attention but it registered
 no hits. A low visibility and squally winds scattered the bombs" widely but missed the embassy.
 The propaganda leaflets whirled in tiny snowstorm about the windows Of Dolly Madison's house. half a mile off. circled Andrew Jackson's rock : Ing horse in Lafayette Square. were almost waited into the White House grounds by the gusty squalls of early April, and showered down on groups or romplng children in Dupont Circle, Evidently somebody in the embassy thought the pickets deserving of some reward for the nervy effort. for late III the afternoon, as official Wash lngton was streaming homeward and the diplomatic corps was out for promenade on Connecticut avenue there appeared in a front window of the embassy one of the banners pre- Flously captured from the militants Down with British militarisn wa the legend it blazoned out from the l old Victorian mansion all even : 1 ing. It furnished the capital with a 1 topic for discussion of British hu-
 nor.
 l But quite behind the curtain of gooa-natured banter which has ac- l companied the exploits of the pickets l so lar, IS something more serious to which the government is giving care ful consideration The information tnge of the affair. officials feel. make i 1t of more moment than the demon
 strations of the militant s1ffra gists 1 which were considered quite import I ant year ago. The resumption ot 1 the p1cketing was maj arked early in the | day by the arrest of four women 1 plckets on charges of violating fed i eral statute making it a felony to of ] Ter an insult to diplomatic represen-
 tatlves of foreign government. | The women, who were arrested
 gave their names as Mrs. Honor
 Walsh, 9S6 East Shelton avenue. Ger. mantown, Pa; Miss Elaine Barrie s3S 1 NAA -Vhu SlI00t, 1nlIaQSlDhla Pa
 Miss Helen O'Brien, 5227 Delma, Road, St. Louis, Mo-, and Miss Kath. leen O'Brien. 1644 South 26th street
 Philadelphia, Pa.
 l The arrests followed quickly the
 decision of United States Attorne, l Laskey. that continued picketins
 would provoke application of the fed. | eral statute
 United States Attorney Laskey | placed the bond each arrested wo. man at $1,000. It was not furnished l and they were locked up, for a hear.
 ing in police court tomorrow. Franl P. Walsh, of Kansas City. Mo. wh, represented Irish independence claim.
 in Paris in 1918. has been retained "a,
 their counsel.
 The British embassy has made Ii,
 complaints Of the picketing to tn,
 state department. Leaders of th,
 women refused tonight to divulge tn, l plans for tomorrow. They stated n,
 bail would be offered for the wone1 under arrest