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IRELAND.

REPUBLIC WANTED. j |By Cable—Press Association—Copyright.) j (Renter'- Telegrams.) < LONDON, November 3. j In the House of Lords, Lord Lore- j burn moved a resolution condemning j the Sinn Fein murders, denouncing the policy of reprisals, and urging tho granting of complete self-government to Ireland, including fiscal autonomy, but reserving to the Imperial Parliament control of tho Army, Navy, and j foreign affairs. J Lord Curzon, replying, said it was ! tho immoderate men who were in an overwhelming majority in Ireland, and what was tho good of offering concessions which would satisfy only the moderates, when the majority wanted an independent republic. Tho motion was rejected bv 44 votes to 13. COMPENSATION AWARDED. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) { LONDON, November 3. j The widow of the Right Hon. Frank j Brooke, P. 0., has been awarded £9500 compensation. She claimed £23,000 on l>ehalf of herself and her son and daughter, but the claims for tho son and daughter were disallowed. [The Right Hon. Frank Brooke, P.C., chairman of the Dublin and SouthEastern Railway, was shot by Sinn j Feiners in Dublin at the end of July.] CAMPAIGN OF MURDER. (Received November 4th, 8 p.m.) LONDON, November 4. The,., intensive campaign of murder against the Irish Constabulary since Sunday has already resulted in seventeen being killed, seventeen wounded, and at least seventy being fired at. The outrages are spread over a wide area, and aro of tho most cold-blooded character. Constable Maxwell* went into a publichouse with a friend. Four men, masked, followed and shot the constable dead. Seven men were present, but none raised a. hand to defend tho constable. Constable McCarthy went for a cycle ride. His body was found stuck into a. drain stripped practically naked. Sergeant Fulton was killed in a street in Ballymote. Ho was. surrounded bv a dozen men, who fired a number of shots at short range, and who then escaped by minglinrr wjth the crowd in the street. It i.s believed in' some quarters that the Irish people sympathise with the murder campaign, which is _ embittering tho constabulary and soldiers, and increasing the reprisals. Though the murderers • must be known to scores of people, none assist the police to track the murderers or warn them of danger.