IN IRELAND

Hokitika Guardian, 11 October 1920, Page 3

IN IRELAND

C'REUTEB’s” rELEQBAM.] I LIVELY PRISONER'S. (Received this day at 12.25 p.m) J LONDON, October 10. Early this morning Sinn Fein pri- I soners in Londonderry gaol wrecked I their cells, smashed the windows and I / damaged property. Troops were called \ in a nd fired. The uproar continued ■- until the arrival of an armoured car and further troops. LLOYD GEORGE’S PROPOSALS. LONDON, Oct. 8. Mr Lloyd George delivered a speech I at Carnarvon, where he had an en- j thusiastic reception. He said the de-1 fence put forward for the murders and J outrages in Ireland is that a state of I war exists, the police being the garrison of a foreign enemy; hut Ireland cannot have a one-sided-jvar. “In war,” said Lloyd Geof'gP, “you do not have one set of men standing up j to be shot at and never firing back. In war no soldier ever complains if the other side shoots back. Are the police to allow themselves to be shot like dogs in the street without attempting to defend themselves ? The police have endured for two or three years in a way •which is the highest testimony to their discipline and restraint against the. murders of their comrades and the attacks on tlieir-barracks. The patience of the police is now giving way, and they are beginning to hit back severely. Is it any wonder that the police shot the murderers of their .comrades when terrorism made it impossible to obtain evidence against the murderers ? But order must be restored in Ireland, ■<.' however stern the*methods. The murderous gangs must he broken up, and unless I am mistaken, we shall do it. The Government must proceed with the Bill providing self-Government for Ireland. I protest against the doctrine that Ireland must be given more than

Gladstone or Asquith gave in their Home Rule Bills, not because Ireland does not need morej but because a gang of assassins is trying to bully us into giving more. If we give Ireland the complete dominion Home Rule which Mr Asquith now advocates, it will mean that Ireland can have her own Navy and Army; can dint the Irish ports against British'shifts; can organise her own submarine bases; can introduce conscription and raise an army of half a million, led by Sinn Reiners, who have vowed the destruction of Great Brita n. Dominion Home Rule in Ireland means ■conscription in Britain as a defensive measure. Ireland was engaged during the war assisting the German submarine campaign. Ireland s-tood as the gateway of Britain. The Irish coast is now v girdled with British wrecks. Are we to have Ireland as our enemies, with submarine bases in the next war? Was ever such lunacy proposed by anybody ? Britain is a great country and has done more for human freedom than any country that ever existed. We will not risk its future and its destinies because of the threats of any gang in Ireland. We saw the Great War through at a gigantic cost, and we are not going to quail at the threats of a handful of assassins.” The Premier added that the Home Rule Bill would give Ireland every fa. !—cility to manage her own domestic affai^; AN AMBUSH. /Received this day at 9.30 a.m.) LONDON, Oct. 10. A patrol of Essex Regiment ,in twmotor lorries was ambushed at New costown, County Cork. A desperat Lht followed. Lieut. Richardson killed and another lieutenant and thre soldiers seriously wounded. Civilia