IN IRELAND.

Hokitika Guardian, 9 October 1920, Page 3

IN IRELAND.

REPLY TO CRITICISM. EARL GREY’S VIEWS. (Reuter’s Telegram.) (Received this day at 9.30 a.m.) LONDON, Oct. 8. Replying to criticisms to proposals cabled on 27th Sept, particularly Mr Asquith’s suggestions, Viscount Grey says there are in Ireland, ports which if effectively equipped, can dominate our communications with the greater part of the world. They are, in fact, gates between us and the outer world, the keys of which must be held in London, not in order to lock them, but to prevent their being locked against us. We cannot let a. submarine base be established in Ireland, which is not under control of the British Admiralty. Regarding British responsibility for the domestic Government of Ireland, that morally and politically is a failure. The truest way to fulfill our trust in Ireland is to wind up British management of purely Irish affairs, as soon as we can. It must be ma'de clear that the starting point of our policy is .our conviction of the incapacity of British parliament to manage purely Irish affairs, and the determination to end this tragic failure within certain limits Frankly stated by us, Irishmen must arrange their own Government. In no other way con Nationalists and Ulstermen he made to realise they must make concessions to each other. AN ARMED ATTACK. (Received this day at 9.30 a.m.) LONDON, October 8. Civilians bombed a military lorry in Barrack Street, Cork, killing one soldier and dangerously injuring three. Two soldiers in the lorry fired on the attaokttra. The street was full of people proceeding to work. Two were wounded.