THE IRISH CRISIS

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 203, 22 May 1920, Page 7

THE IRISH CRISIS

POLICY OF THE GOVERNMENT TO EMPLOY ALL BRITAIN'S RESOURCES IN RESTORING LAW AND ORDER ißy Telesraph-Press Association-Copyright London May 20. In the House of Lords the Lord Chancellor, replying to Lord Salisbury, emphatically declared that it was the policy of the Government, whether the strugglo was short or long, to employ the whole of the available resources of Britain to restore law and order in Ireland, and rendcir utterly impossible, the 6ecessionary campaign at present in *> progress. The forces in Britain would bo as deeply committed to carrying to success the Government's purptse in Ireland as they vfire to carrying out their purpose in the late war. If the troops in Ireland presently proved to be insufficient, more would be sent; the only limits would ba the extent and degree of the crisis. If the existing military formation was insufficient, the Government .would not hnsitato to ask the population of the country to increase tho forces as in a crisis of. war.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.

MILITARY DETACHMENTS ARRIV- (. ■ ING DAILY. London, May 20. The new military policy is becoming more and more evident in Ireland. The cavalry is increasingly active. Hussars are patrolling the hills outside Dublin, and there are others, at AYicklow. A Naval Brigade lias arrived at Skibbercen. Further military detachments are arriv-' ing daily in the south-west, and are occupying the police barracks.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. "TO UPHOLD THE IRISH REPUBLIC" NATIONALISTS URGED TO POLL HEAVILY. New York, May 20. The New York "Times" says that Mr. De Valera, in a cable message to Mr. Arthur Griffith (Sinn Fein M.P. for East Cavan) at Dublin, urges tho Irish Nationalists, particularly the women, to go to tlie polls at the elections next month, to "expose the falsehood expressed by British propagandists, that the desire to uphold the Irish Republic is weakening."—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. disorderlTlimerick ONE CIVILIAN KILLED AND TWO WOUNDED. (Eec. May 21. 5.5 p.m.) , ■ ■ London, May 20. As the result of disorder at Limerick at night lime, police and military arrived, and some firing occured. A civilian was shot dead, an old woman was shot in the ankle, and a girl was wounded.— Aiis.-N.Z. Cable Assn. MuNITIONSMTIRELAND . DOCKERS AND TRANSPORTERS AGREE NOT TO HANDLE THEM. (Rec. May 21, 7.35 p.m.) London, May 20. English dockers and Irish transporters hav.; agreed not to handle munitions intended for use in Ireland.—United Service.