IN IRELAND

Hokitika Guardian, 26 January 1920, Page 1

IN IRELAND

(By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.; LABOUR’S DELEGATION. / LONDON, Jan. 24. Tlie British Labour Delegation to Ireland has visited Cork. The Lord Mayor of Cork -welcomed the Party, and escorted them to the City Hall. There they found that the police had again ejected the Sinn Fein Industrial Commission.

Tho Lord Mayor vainly protested at tho ejection.

■Addressing the Delegation, the Lord Mayor said that Ireland distrusted Njberal, Conservative and Coalition Governments. He expressed, the opinion that Ireland’s only hope in England lay in tile English Labour Party. Mr Adamson (Leader of the Labour 1 arty) predicted that the Delegation’s report to the Labour Party would bo ‘one of a far reaching character.”

hide and seek at cork. LONDON, Jan. 20,

The Irish Republican Commission, which was appointed to enquire into tho country’s resources, arrived at Cork regardless of the prohibition against their proceedings- They found the police in possession of a Cit-v Hall. The Commission held a short sitting at the School of Art building, of which the police took possession during the luncheon adjournment. The Commission secretly assembled during the afternoon at the Courthouse. The citizens are amused at the hide and seek” movements of the Commission, whose witnesses include farmers and manufacturers, among whom are a number of Unionists.

A POLICE BRUSH. LONDON, Jan. 20. The' authorities having removed the police from the Donberg Barracks, which were recently burned to the ground, Sinn Feiners ordered Constable Costigan and his wife to remove from tbe neighbourhood. Costigan was removing his furniture in a police motorvan with a cyclist escort, when a large body of armed men waylaid the motor. A sharp fight followed ,in which the police shot and killed a man near a, flooded river. The body was swept away in the flood. The police pursued the others, capturing two men, who were escorted to lyih'usli, where there was great excitement.

ENCOUNTER- WITH STRIKERS. LONDON, Jan. 20. The police encountered a procession of motor driver strikers at Dublin. Soldiers captured the banners carried by the latter. A melee followed, but a bayonet charge scattered the strikers. There were no casualties, but two arrests wore made.

TO SUPPRESS DISORDER. PARIS, Jan. 23. “Lo Journal’s” Dublin correspondent states he interviewed Lord French, who expressed his determination to suppress disorder, even if martial law was necessary. He drew a hopeless picture of the future. It seemed likely that a period of peace would follow the restoration of order, but it was probably that the trouble would break out again later. ■ Lord French declined to discuss the prospects of satisfying the Trish by means of a generous measure of Home Rule. He said that that was .'l.acpher-' son’s task.