IRISH PROBLEM.

Press, Volume LVI, Issue 16854, 7 June 1920, Page 7

IRISH PROBLEM.

FEELING IN UNITED STATES.(Br Cable—Pres.' Association —Copyright.) (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) WASHINGTON, Juno 3. Tho State Departmemnt lias ordered on inquii-v into the burning of a British flag in the streets of Washington by a number of women friends of the Irish freedom movement. No steps were taken by the English Embassy oven to make a protest. (Received June Gth, 5.5 p.m.) NEW YORK, June y. Sixtv members of the Yale faculty have protested against the Congressional expression of sympathy with the Irish cause. Do Yalera arrived at Chicago to-day. He announced he would trv to obtain a declaration by the Republican Party in favour of the recognition of the Irish Republic bv the United States. MILITARY STORES BOYCOTT. (Rcceivcd June 6th, 5.5 p.m.) LONDON, June 4. Tho dockers at Cork refused to discharge a shipment of barbed wire intended to fortify police barracks in Ireland . (Received June 6th, 0.0 n.m.) LONDON, June 4. Mr J. 11. Thomas telegraphed to the Irish branch of the National Union of Raihvaymon, asking them to resume work pending a conference at Bristol on June loth regarding the handling of military stores.