Ernest Blythe sentenced to three months imprisonment

Belfast, 6 August 1915 - Ernest Blythe, a journalist from Lisburn, has been sentenced to three months’ imprisonment for failing to comply with an order under the Defence of the Realm Act which required him to leave Ireland on 17 July 1915.

[Editor's note: This is an article from Century Ireland, a fortnightly online newspaper, written from the perspective of a journalist 100 years ago, based on news reports of the time.]