IN IRELAND.

Hokitika Guardian, 1 September 1920, Page 2

IN IRELAND.

“COOL, DELIBERATE MURDER.” CARDINAL LOGUE’S CONDEMNATION. *OBST Xian & N.Z. CABLE APSOCUTip'S LONDON, Aug.. 29. Cardinal Logue, in a letter condemning the attack dn police at Dundalk, in which one was killed and two dangerously wounded, says: “No end, however high, no pleas, however plausible, could justify such an outrage. I know tiiat the poor victim who has gone into eternity was a good, upright man, who* never gave offence to anyone in the discharge of his duty. I may be told that it is an act of war, that it is lawful to shoot at sight anyone wearing a policeman’s uniform. I prefer to call it by the term and name of ‘cool, deliberate murder.” Anyone who plans, encourages, abets, even sympathises with such acts participates in the guilt before God. I am reminded by anonymous correspondents that there are worse faults on the other side. I know there are. I denounce and condemn them most heartily. We are living under a harsh, oppressive, tyrannical regime of militarism and brute force, which invites, I stimulates and nourishes crime, but crime does not excuse crime. We must not do wrong because others do it.”

BELFAST RIOTS

LONDON, August 30. Rioting continutli in Belfast in half a dozen centres. There are rival mobs, who are setting fire to some shops and looting others. Five were killed and 53 wounded during the morning, including a woman. A child of eleven was killed while trying to get home to lunch. Tire Sinn Feiners are outnumbered. Many of them are armed with revolvers.

The Unionist mobs used paving stone rivets, and kidney shaped pavers, weigh ing a pound a piece. These they piled up ready for attack and defence. Additional troops were ordered out.

The police made repeated baton charges. Mon and women workers ha< to run the .gauntlet of street firing and baton charges before they reached workshops and offices. Most of these had to dose down. Workers returned home or joined rival mobs, thus increasing the confusion. Distressing scenes are to be witnessed in the Catholic quarter. Many families are taking advantage of any lull in the rioting to put their furniture into lor ries and hand carts. Many families headed by fathers and mothers, and followed by young children are walking behind the carts. \

Belfast is a veritable inferno of strife and riot. Never before, it is stated, have such scenes been witnessed. Fighting proceeds all round the clock Business has been suspended, and shops* barricaded. Armoured cars with police patrol the areas, but no sooner do they get coptrpl in one 'area than fighting ijitep.se apd forqcipug, breaks out in another, Some Sinn Ifeipers were the attackers to-day. A bad pielee followed their stone throwing at wprkmen’p tramcars early ip the morning. Stones flew in all pirwefiops, and for the remainder pf the day some streets were delivered to great mobs of Protestants and Catholics, who harrassed the soldiers and police. 'Gpufugioii was rendered worse by the screams qf jhp: terrified women and girls. These had been prominent combatants, descending to hair-fmlling. (Indeed their aggressiveness even excelled the men’s. <

ENTERING PROTESTS. LONDON, August 30. Sir Janies Long has telegraphed to Lord Stamfordham requesting that His Majesty the King shall remove his (Long’s) knighthood owing to the Government's treatment of. Mayor MeSWeeney and other hunger strikers. . The whole of the Labour leaders representing all Organised British Labour have *pppak‘jJ against the treatment of Mayor McSweeney. They have requested Mr Lloyd George to do the “big thing,” and release McSweeney.

MARTIAL RAW IN BELFAST. - LONDON, August 31. ■ Martial law has been proclaimed in i ESghtpen deaths and oyer two hundred people have been wounded since the rioting starred in Belfast on Saturday. Sir B. Cai-son is appealing to IJnioniscts to assist in the preservation of order, He states that peace negotiations has been proceeding with the Government and an important announcement is expected on Friday. INCENDIARISM SPREADS, y LONDON, August 31. I Inpendjarisni has spread over four-) teen streets in Belfast, if'be lire brigade was enl}ed out forty times. Sir E. Carson appealed to loyalists to co-operate in quelling the disturbances. Ulster Unionist Council announces that peace negotiations with the Government are proceeding.

; A FRENCH APPEAL, i PARIS, August 31. The “Matin” jn an article headed, an appeal tq England, saYs: “It would be of loyalty to our Allies not to Warn them of the peril they are incurring bp permitting a struggle between Englatyl and civilsation. Each refusal of clemency enhances the importance of McSweeney, whose death will spread Ireland’s teachings and convince the world that England is implacable, male-' jng no distinctions between criminals and saints.”