AN EMPHATIC DECLARATION.
OF GOVERNMENT INTENTIONS
(AnSTUA I.tAN k N.Z. OABBE ASSOCIATION & lIEUTEK.]
(Received This Dav at 1i.20. a.m.) LONDON, May 19.
Replying to Lord Salisbury in the Lords, the Lord Chancellor emphatically declared it was the policy of Government * whether the struggle was short or long, to employ the vhole available resources of Britain to restore law and order in Ireland and render the secessionary campaign now in progress, utterly impossible. The forces of Britain were as deeply committed to carrying to success the Government’s purpose iu Ireland as they were to carrying out their purpose in the late war. If the troops now there, were insufficient, more would be. sent. The only limits would he extent of the degree of the crisis. If the existing military formation was insufficient t.’iey would not hesitate to ask the population of the country to increase the forces, as in the crisis of the war.
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Hokitika Guardian, 21 May 1920, Page 3
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153AN EMPHATIC DECLARATION. Hokitika Guardian, 21 May 1920, Page 3
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