CRISIS IN IRELAND

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 149, 19 March 1919, Page 7

CRISIS IN IRELAND

IMMEDIATE ACTION IMPERATIVE

PROSPECT DARK WITH j TROUBLE j By Tolesraph-Prcss Association- Copyrleb! i London, March 12. , Tlio "Daily Mail" correspondent at ; Dublin states that the present position of ! Ireland calls tor the immediate establishment of some effective system of self- • i government The situation has steadily 1 grown ivorso since the armistice. Re- 1 hellion is the only talk heard. The re- j lease of tho Sinn ein internees has in- . i flamed popular passion, and has become ; the -starting point of a new and furious agitation for the release of the more , serious offenders. The whole country is j industrially stagnant, and everywhere | thsre is widespread labour unrest, threat- [ oniag further big strikes, with demands • whbli no employers can concede. An- j other session of .the. Republican Parlia- j ment is pending, and will include the re- i leasvd members. It is likely to cause. j serious trouble with tho British authori-ties—Aus.-N.Z. Gable Assn. i SINN FEIN PRISONER ESCAPES j (Fee. March 19, 1.10 a.m.) London, March 18. Barton, a Sinn Vomer, and member o£ the Houso of Commons, has - escaped ; from Mountjoy Prison, vhcro ho was ' awaiting trial for a" speech at Wieklow. ] Ho left a dummy figure in the bed.— | Aus.-N.Z. Cablo.Assn. •: