IRISH PROBLEM

Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 173, 18 April 1921, Page 5

IRISH PROBLEM

ARCHBISHOP MANNIX INTERVIEWED THE POPE’S VIEWS CN BRITISH POLICY Sy Telegraph—Press Association—Oopyrijrli* (Rec. April 17, 5.5 p.m.) Paris, April 15. Irish residents entertained Archbishop Mannix at dinner. In an interview Dr. Mannix said the Pope had asked him to be his intermediary in condemning the acts of compatriots in Ireland. "I refused,” said Dr. Mannix, "and showed the Holy Father that there was something fine and heroic in Sinn Fein’s war against Britain. The Pope finally agreed that British policy in Ireland was shocking.” Dr. Mannix declared that the persistent rumours that the Vatican intended to issue a condemnation of Irishmen’s efforts to obtain the freedom of their country was merely English pro-paganda.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. RESOLUTION iTAMERICAN SENATE (Rec. April 17, 5.5 pun.) Washington, April 16. Senator Morris has introduced a resolution in the Senate that "the United States views with horror and indignation the British Government’s policy in Ireland.” The motion was referred to the Foreign Relations Committee.—Aus.N.Z. Cable Assn. THE MURDER CAMPAIGN A MAJOR AND A CONSTABLE SHOT. London, April 16. While a constable was bidding farewell to his fiancee in a street in Ballinamoxe an unknown assailant shot the constable dead and -dangerously wounded. his fiancee. While Major Mackinnon, of the Royal Irish Constabulary, was golfing near Tralee with a cadet of the earns force, ten civilians fired from a hedge. The major died of wounds. The cadet returned the attackers’ fire and escaped unhurt. A dozen farm-houses were burned in Bu-lty-maeclligot district as a reprisal. People arc fleeing from the district. Sir Nevil Macready has suspended the civil courts’ jurisdiction throughout the martial Law areas regarding claims for damages for injuries allegedly caused by Crown forces. —Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. MURDER OF SIR ARTHUR VICARS ASSASSINS STRANGERS TO THE DISTRICT. London, April 15. Sir Arthur Vicars, who had to resign office as King-of-Arms after the theftjrf the Crown jewels (valued at .£50,000) from Dublin Castle in July, 1907, was taken from his bed in a dressing-gown and murdered outside the house. Thirty armed men carried out the crime. Aus.N.Z. Cable Assn. (Rec. April 17, 5.5 p.m.) London, April 15. The police found Sir Arthur Vicars’s body lying across the footpath thirty yards from his house, with the head practically blown away. The murderers numbered thirty, and were strangers to the district. They were armed with revolvers, shot guns, and bombs. After the crime the inmates of Kilmorna House were given den minutes to leave, and the liou sc was set on fire, bombs being placed inside to. prevent an attempt to save it. —Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.