IN IRELAND

Hokitika Guardian, 18 October 1920, Page 3

IN IRELAND

f “kbuieb’s” ielkgbam.] IRISH INCIDENTS. (Received this day at 8 a.m.) LONDON, October 17. Defendants in Clare County for refusing to pay a Sinn Fein claim was Shut in a vault containing five coffins and terrorised into compliance. A Cork telegram states the auxiliary police dragged Lonane, a civilian of Ballymakery from his liome and put him against a fence shot him dead, v Military and auxiliary police thrice raided the premises of Peter O’Carroll, invalid shopkeeper of Dublin in search for his two sons, who however were sleeping elsewhere. Another raid attributed to the same parties occurred on Saturday when O’Carroll was killed and a paper fastened to his clothes inscribed traitor to Ireland, shot by I.R. A. CHURCHILL ON IRELAND., (Received this day at 8 a.m.) LONDON, October 17. Hon. W. Churchill at Dundee, said it would be madness to put ourselves at the mercy of such terrorists as De Valera and his gang of murderers, whom we were assuredly going to break up absolutely and utterly. ■ Torries and Liberals had fortunately joined together making a full measure of home rule practical ly eeirtain. Were the north and. south of Ireland left to fight out their own differences there would ho a most terrible civil war on an organised scale. Sympathy in Britain in that case would be developed in favour of Protestant Ulster. Influential persons in United States sympathised with the, south and while volunteers left Britain for Ulster reinforcements would come from United States for south. This would create such a tension that it would expose us to .the greatest danger with which we could be confronted, namely a. quarrel between ourselves and United States. It is better to tolerate the present lamentable situation for two or three years more than to leave Ireland to herself, thus opening the flood gates of organised war, and later embroiling u's with United States.