IN IRELAND.

Hokitika Guardian, 22 November 1920, Page 2

IN IRELAND.

(Reuter’s Telegiam.) ASQUITH’S IRISH SOLUTION. LONDON, 'November 20. An address was given by Mr Asquith to the Independent 'Liberal members of the House of Commons on the Irish passed a resolution endorsing Mr Asquith’s policy of dominion home rule for Ireland. The resolution added: “Including as this proposal does adequate safeguard for the strategic security of the United Kingdom and for the protection of minorities.” A PRIEST KIDNAPPED. LONDON, November 20. In the House of Comjmons, Mr Joseph Devlin (Nationalist M.P.) asked for information regarding the alleged kidnapping of Rev. Father Grif- ! fin in Galivay. | The Chief Secretary for Ireland, Sir j H. Greenwood said he would refuse to i believe that the military or the police | were responsible for the kidnapping I He said Jt appeared to be a case of local revenge. He said Father Griffin was an extreme Sinn Feinism. He had raised enemies among local Nationalists. | MORE REPRISALS IN CORK. LONDON, November 19. ■ j Four murders occurred in Cork city 1 yesterday night. (They followed the . shooting of a, policeman named' O’Donoghue. The murders, the Sinn Feiners assert, is the work of the “Black and Tans’” (soldiers and polfoe). Some doubt is expressed of this. The ( Dublin Castle authorities say the murder is the work of men who are only masquerading in British uniforms, i They assert some of the four men shot dead had been friendly with tlieir police. GREENWOOD’S ALLEGATIONS: LONDON, November 19. The Chief Secretary for Ireland Sir Hamar Greenwood, informed the House of Commons lie had evidence of a Sinn I Fein plan to cause deaths ' among the | British Army of occupation in Ireland, jHe read what he said was a secret ■ document from the 'of the Irish Republican Army. It was ! directed to the Chief of Staff. It had 1 a suggestion for the infection with ty- ' phoid germs of milk supplied to the military and for infecting horses with glanders. He declared the document was found by the English military officers. They got it among papers ■of the Chief of Staff in a raid. \ . ! HOLDUPS IN DUBLIN, j LONDON, November 20. A number of holdups have occurred in Dublin, one including a theft of a 1 thousand pounds from the Armiens Street railway station. This money in- ' eluded old age pensions for Ireland which the Government had held up and interned. ~ i ; ALLEGED PLOT. I 'LONDON, November 20. ! It is reported by the military that there has been a seizure of papers regarding an alleged microbe murder ■ plot in Ireland. It is stated to have been made dining the search of the ! house of Professor Hayes at the Unij yersity College, Dublin. The soldiers i suddenly heard an unknown man moving, whose presence in the house had beerf concealed. The man, hearing ■ the raiders, escaped in his night-shirt 1 He dropped from a window, and climb- • ing a wall ten feet high. An attache ■ { case was found in his room. This, it i is claimed showed that he was chief of ‘ staff of the Republican Army. A mill. ! tary cordon was immediately thrown > round the quarter, but without any result. Professor Hayes has been ar- • rested, IRISH LAND BILL. LONDON November 29. In th© 'House of Commons, the Government have introduced an (Irish Land Bill which they state is complementary of the Home Rule Bill, and will practically abolish landlordism in Ireland. The Bill’s provision does - not touch, land purchased under the previous Land Acts, or building land, or other land not exceeding two hundred pounds in value, on which the owner resides or cultivates. The estimated total value of the land that would be subject to compulsory purchase under the Bill is seventy millions. Landlords would be paid by five per cent bonds redeemable by periodical drawings. The Bill will not be proceeded with this session, however. Even if passed, it would not be operative until thirty mpnths after its passing. V - LONDON, November 29. jit is (reported two soldjers were killed at Catlrp, while the military guards there were bejng attacked. John Cavanagh, a gppeer’s assistant was arrested at Lovestoft on a charge of murdering a policeman in Wexford REPRISALS. (Received this day at 8 a.m.)‘ , LONDON, Nov. 20. A masked man shot and severely wounded Jeremiah O’Connell, a shoemaker of Cork, being the sixth reprisal , victim for the murder of O’Donoghue, cabled on 17th,