Arthur Griffith, The English Government and East Cavan

The following letter, speaking so eloquently for itself, has been received from Mr. Arthur Griffith, M.I.P:—

Gloucester Prison,
June 28^th, 1918.

Dear Mr. Murphy,

On receipt of the figures in the Cavan Election I wrote to you with the object of thanking the people of Cavan through ‘Nationality.’ The letter, like the letter I wrote previous to the election to my Election Committee, has been refused transmission by the British Government. Generally speaking, any of my letters which contain references to personages such as Mr. Lloyd George, Sir Edward Carson, Lord Curzon, Mr. Shortt, Mr. T. Oates, Lord Milner, or Mr. Lyon will not, apparently, pass. I shall not, therefore, refer to these associates in this note.

The telegrams announcing the result in Cavan are now being delivered to me. The ‘Independent’ newspaper reaches us sometimes, but always three to six days after date. No Irish weekly paper comes. They are sent, but they do not appear to get beyond the Censor’s office. The Gospels in Irish, which were held up by the Censorship, have been delivered after a fortnight.

We are all well here. We got such of the English newspapers as support the war, and we had an amusing morning reading them to-day. We had heard that poor Dick Pigott was dead, but a short paragraph in the London ‘Times’ on page 9, reassured us.

Do chara,
ARTHUR GRIFFITH.