IN IRELAND.

Hokitika Guardian, 28 September 1920, Page 1

IN IRELAND.

Reuter’s Telegrams.

FIGHTING IN ulster. LONDON, September 26,

i Sinn Feinei\s are persisting in provoking trouble in Ulster by murdering the police in Protestant towns, hoping to discredit Ulster by arousing reprisals. Directly after the shipyard workers.in Harland and Wolff’s works at Belfast withdrew tlieir ieIfusall to work with Catholics, Sinn Feiners shot four more policemen killing one and seriously wounding three A fierce faction of fights immediately recommenced, three well-known c;inn Feiners being killed. It is alleged that a party of five constabulary armed with rifles entered the houses of two men at night and shot one dead The other was killed in the street. The police fired over the heads of rioters, in order to secure a dispersal of the crowds The curfew law, which has just been withdrawn, is now reimposed. Armoured cars are patrolling Belfast. The military inquiry into the death of Lynch at the Royal Exchange Hotel, Dublin, resulted in a verdict that Lynch ivas shot by a member of the Crown forces in the execution of his duty.

QUESTION OF REPRISALS., LONDON, September 97

The Dublin ‘Freeman’s Journal’ prints wliat is termed a, sensational interview with Sir Nevil Macready, head of the Irish police. He was seen by an American reviewer. Macready now denies that the reprisals being made by police and others for assassinations of police officers have been actuated by the new set policy of the Government. He declares, however, that if the guerilla warfare by the Irish Republican Army were continued the situation might demand such a set policy of reprisals. It would result if policemen were murdered. The machinery of the British law was now broken. The constabulary, be asserted, felt that there were no certain means for redress. He said it was only human that they should act as they did on tlieir own initiative.

He went on: “If the police are able thus to deal with the situation, there is no need for the military in-Ireland But there is an impossibility of recruiting for the Irish constabulary. This makes it essential to recruit for forces of law and order in England. The “Daily News” denounces Maeready’s attitude. It says: “Unless this virtual condonation of the reprisals is disowned, then Macready will be relieved of bis post.”

For Children’s Hacking Cough, Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure 1/9, 2/9