IN IRELAND

Hokitika Guardian, 13 November 1920, Page 2

IN IRELAND

fBEUTKB'B” tELEQBAJi.J REPRISALS AT TRALEE. LONDON Nov. 10. Fires are ablaze around the town of Tralee owing to reprisals for the shooting of two soldiers. These were two “Black and Tans,” who were travelling ' in a train to Tralee. They were shot dead at Balleyback station. The bodies were thrown on the platform. Many of the people’s farms and stacks are ablaze, las a reprisal over a large area of Traleo countryside. HOME RULE BILL. LONDON, Nov. 12. In the House of Commons, the Government’s Home Rule Bill was read a third time. ’ Mr Adamson (Labour Leader) moved its rejection. The Labor Leader said the British Labour Party while it did not believe in an Irish Republic, yet held that tho Irish People should be given full freedom of choice as to a republic. Hon Mr Asquith appealed to the House to try to make a real lasting settlement to ono of the Irish problems. Mr Lloyd George, for the\ Government ,declared a perverse fact of the situation was that the temper of the i people of Britain and those of Ireland j never synchronised or was the same, i There was, be asserted, an atmosphere j of morbid suspicion. This was so at j the present moment. Ireland, lie claim ed was in a bad temper. Ireland did not know what this Bill contained. Ireland would not look *at the Bill. • It was essential, he went on, that Britain should control all the Irish harbours. Britain could not allow Ireland fb raise any army. An Irish army might become. half a million strong. Finally, he iclaimed Ulster must not be coerced in any way into accepting a Parliament if it did not want one. Mr Asquith here interjected“l agree with that.” Lloyd George claimed that except for these things, namely, Ulster’s independence, and British control of all military matters, the British Government would bo prepared to give “almost anything” to Ireland. Sir Edward Carson said that while Ulster eould not pretend to like the Bill, they would do their best to per form its obligations. He hoped, with all his heart that this hill would be successful. Mr Joseph Devlin (Nationalist mem. her for Belfast West) said that ho believed if there were a truly great scheme of Dominion Home Rule, with full safeguards for Ulster it would satisfy the overwhelming sentiments of Ireland. Mr Adamson’s Labour amendment was rejected. The Bill as it stood was then read a third time. ENGLISH CARDINAL’S VIEWS. LONDON, November 11. Cardinal Bourne has stated his views regarding Ireland. He says he believes the immense majority of the people of England desire to see Ireland enjoy the widest possible system of self-Government, subject to tho connection with the Imperial Crown, and the safeguarding of the Empire’s defence. Ho asserts the withdrawal of the British troops would be received with apprehension, as a secret oathbound association was working in Ireland, >md using the weapon of asssas. sination. He says he is assured that Sinn Fein disavows the activities of this association. He declares it a fact that Sinn Fein cannot control this murder gang. The question was whether Sinn Fein’s impotence to cope with the gang was d'uo to Ireland’s undoubt, ed hostility to the presence of the troops. Ho also asks, could Sinn Fein destroy the secret association if left to its own resources. “If the latter question coluld be answered affirmatively,” lie says, “almost all difficulties would vanish, and England would insist on the withdrawal of troops.