IN IRELAND.

Hokitika Guardian, 25 September 1918, Page 1

IN IRELAND.

! • .uisriiAMAN it n.z. cAiir.r. association] i LONDON, September 23. | The Irish correspondent of the | “Times,” (editor of the Unionist, pa--1 per “Irish Times”) writes on the pre- ! sent situation in Ireland as follows: | Although arrests, searches, and boyrot tes continue, the condition o| Ireland has immeasurably improved. This has taken place under Lord French's measures. Sinn Fein is now dropping j Hu* policy of organised lawlessness, ft | is organising instead for the next generJal election. It is particularly cnnvnssi ing women. j The Sinn Fein campaign is supported . by ample funds, including an . nnticonseription fund of a quarter of a million. It is intended by Sinn Fein to contest every Nationalist seat. The Nationalists’ Party prospects are most gloomy. Their organisation has gone to pieces, and they have no election funds. Their American subscriptions have entirely ceased. The majority in Ireland fearing conscription, will vote for Sinn Fein, which party is likely to gain fifteen scats. After the election tlin Sinn Peiners propose to hold out until after the Renee conference. Meanwhile Sinn Fein is adopting a policy of national sabotage, flic members on being elected to Parliament not, going to Westminster, but they will attempt to form an Irish Parliament, while shrinking from any violent conflict with the forces of the Grown, hut dislocating the machinery of the law in every way possible. These arc overtures with Labour. Those suggest that they may be meditating the use of a weapon of the general strike, and to take every means they can to make Ireland ungovernable by British Parliament, which will he therefore glad to get rid of the Irish difficulty at any price.