IN IRELAND

Hokitika Guardian, 11 November 1920, Page 2

IN IRELAND

(‘•beutkbV’ ikleqeam.J MORE REPRISALS. LONDON, November 9; Latest reports from Ireland state that the “Black and Tans” (soldiers) have threatened' further action on lines of the reprisals. They havje ‘"black and tan” notices placarded in the town of Athlone ordering that all the factories and all shops shall be kept closed on Thursday. This is to honour heroes of the great war and police murdered in Ireland.” The notices add:—“Failure to comply will render the premises liable to destruction.” SHOOTINGS AND ARRESTS. LONDON, November 10. Fatal shootings at Ardfert are reported. While some police were arresting four men at Ardfert, two, alleged Sinn Feiners were shot dead by the police. The police have arrested numbers of the farmers in the Bantry mountains. The arrests are owing to the discoveries of large shoals of bombs, rifles and explosives concealed in some farm buildings. SPEECH BY LLOYD GEORGE. LONDON, November 10. Referring to the policy of his Government in Ireland, Mr Lloyd George in a speech at the Lord Mayor of London’s banquet, declared: —Unless he was mistaken, the Government’s present military measures in Ireland would now have effect. They had murder by the throat. Mr Lloyd George went on to say: —“There will not ibe real peace then until murder and conspiracy are shattered. Men indulging in these murders say it is war. If so, they cannot complain when we are applying -the same rules of war.” He said any kind of peace or conciliation must he of a kind that would prove fair to Britain as well as Ireland.” We are offering Ireland, he said “a partnership in the greatest Empire in the world, at the heights of its power, and in the greatest days of it’s glory.”