IN IRELAND.

Hokitika Guardian, 7 June 1920, Page 3

IN IRELAND.

STRAIGHT TALK

(Reuter’s Telegram.)

(Received this clay at 1.5 p.iM.) LONDON, June 5. • Hon. Lloyd George replying to rail- ' way deputations, said regarding the position in Ireland, within a. very short time there had been forty-eight murders of police and .120 attempted murders. Men were shot down carrying out elementary duty of preservation of . life yet when a box of revolvers was sent to these men to enable thorn to defend their lives, the (Grade, union threatens to stop all traffic in Ireland, notwithstanding the fact that .murderers

with revolvers in their pockets were i carried backwards and forwards on the railways. We cannot, he added, have that, whatever it costs. It means ho said, that the railwaymen have refused to work trains carrying troops. He declared most 'emphatically that Government could not possibly agreed ' to action of any section discriminating, against Government traffic, or accept any decree issued , by, any body, no •matter bow powerful denying to the government the essential facilities for carrying out- its functions.

HOME RULE BILL. LONDON, Juno 2. In the HouSe of Commons, during ttfp

debate on the /Home Rule Bill, Captai Coote moved tile omission or the pre , vision reserving to the Imperial Parlia meat control of the armed forces’of th

Grown. : , * i : • - He suggested: “If we give the. Irish Parliament control of ‘tile armed forces things will come to,such a pass that Irishmen will be compelled to unite.” Si rE. .Carson and Sir W. Long opposed the amendrhent,' which was tived on the voices.