IRISH AFFAIRS

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2215, 30 July 1914, Page 7

IRISH AFFAIRS

A MANIFESTO 'THE RIFLE IS THE PARENI OF LIBERTY" * GOVERNMENT ANXIOUS FOR A • SETTLEMENT. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright ■ .7. \ London, July 28. ihe gun-running yacln, that landed arms at Howth for the Nationalist \olThir 6 / 6 -b?- a ladyof title. ~ ? Ihere wore three ladies aboard, and the jack. was navigated. by tfie .ownerls \ nS r Il<>S - 8 ■ < - ,vllo w aß resigned tho Uuef Commissionership of Police in Dublin owing to the firing/on a.crowd / bj men or vho Scottish' Borderers) dismissed Glee-son and O'Neill, con stables, for refusing to_ obex • Mr! Barrel's deputy Commissioner) orders. Other : members of tho Dublin ... police force have threatened to strike unless the constables are reinstated'. ' The Under-Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant (Sir. - James .Dougherty), hearing that .Harrel waq taking 'action, Sent a niiuute from his office instructing that no attempt at forcible disarmament should be made, but that the au- " thorities take the names, with a view to prosecution. 'Mr. Harrel had not. received jiote, as tho office • was closed ? it being a Sunday.: :" . ; . Nationalists. hav 3 successfully landed and hidden four thousand rifles front Newcastle at Wicklow. • N Many attacks have been made \ on small groups of soldiers in the Dublin streets. ... • The inquest on those killed in the street fighting was opened, and ad) journed on the military authorities' application. ... . .' > .. - ■ The cruiser Liverpopl and .'two destroyers have been stationed ofTHowth. Eight policemen who. refused to charge the crowd during the trouble in v Dublin on , Sunday last have resigned. (llec, July 29; 10.30 p.m.) - London, July 29. The demonstration of Nationalist volunteers at Athlone against the so-called 1 :i Dublin murders/ included squads of the . : Dublin Royal Artillery Reserve, which has just completed training. It is stated that a trawler landed twelve machine guns at Kingston, and: motorcars conveyed them to -Berry and Belfast. ' : The Government has returned to the . - Nationalist volunteers the twenty-seven rifles captured,at Glontarf. ■ , .■. The Irish volunteers have' issued a manifesto headed "The Right to Murder England's Claim." , The manifesto v states that the English .Government. .• through the. executive, has' reasserted its old claim to inurder Irish people without trial., Tile shooting in Dublin on Sunday would shame 'the maddened \ soldiers of a rebel army thirsting for blood, and concludes: "The-rifle is tlie . f •parent o f liberty," and exhorts the people to arm. . ' • j The Dublin victims were taken from ' tho niorguo to Marlborough: ; Street ; Cathedral. Not a single policeman or, Goldier \yas present, while tlie procession passed through the streets,; . the ;i thousands participating were absolutely silent. A public funeral follows tomorrow. ■ ' 1 The "Daily Chronicle" demands the withdrawal of-the .Arms Proclamation, '• and to give a sort of recognition to the- \ "volunteer forces. The. proclamation i will inevitably provoke conflicts with j the Nationalists of Ireland, and adds ■ J it is rumoured, that the Government is j willing'to offer to leave out Antrim, Down, Derry, and Armagh, and abolish ' tfhe'time limit.' ■ 7- , ,;■'! The "Daily Telegraph" says tlie.im- ' * pressifin on both sides is that,the Government, 'owing'.to the Europeansituation, will go. far to satisfy the Covenanters, land severe pressure is likely to be '•.? put on both Nationalists and Ulstermen., ' ■ -'. ■' .• '' ; ••'

AMENDING HOME RtJLE BILL

DATE OF SECOND READING. i ~ London, July '23. ; . ! ' Mr. Asquitl. announced in >the Houbs of Commons that'the amending Bill would come, up for its second raiding on Thursday nest. • -