IN IRELAND.

Hokitika Guardian, 2 December 1920, Page 2

IN IRELAND.

(Router’s Telegram.)

LONDON, November 30. Archbishop Mannix spoke at a gathering of Catholic clergy at Newcastle. He said the British' pabinet is not fighting a gang of murderers, but an inaugurated nation. If some Irishmen in England or Ireland went over the border of God’s law, he hoped that God would forgive them, remembering their suffering and exhaustion.

STATEMENT IN COMMONS. ,

LONDON, Nov 30

In the House of Commons, Sir H. "Greenwood, (Chief Secretary) read some telegrams regarding the Kilmichael ambush, which showed that the amhuscaders consisted of from 80»to 100 men. They were clad in khaki, with steel trench helmets. They fired from both sides of the road. There was also a direct and enfilade fire. Some of the Crown men were disarmed and brutally m'urdered, and their bodies rifled, all money, and valuables being taken, and clothing robbed from the corpses. Sir H. Greenwood said he thought that with fifteen ex-officers in the late war lying dead the House did not wish to continue the discussion in the face of a challenge to the authority of the House and civilisation. V Captain Archer Redmond said that none in the House would accuse him or those associated with him, of feeling anything but the deepest regret at such an outrage.

In the House of Commons, during the debate on the Irish position, Sir H. Greenwood (Chief Secretary) ‘'said that the Liverpool and London fire outrages show r ed a Sinn Fein murder gang w’as carrying its senseless campaign of murder and arson into Britain, and that it would be extended to persons and property in Britain, unless the country were thoroughly roused.

BURNING OF IRISH PAPER. LONDON, Nov 30. Before the “Freeman’s Journal” (Nationalist) office was set on fire in Dublin, a gang of armed and masked men entered the offices of the Unionist paper “Thei Irish Times,” and at the revolver’s point extracted promises from the editorial staff that nothing would he divulged about the outrage. OTHER PARTICULARS.

LONDON, Dec 1. The police searched the liner Aquitania on her arrival at Southampton from §ew York. They detained six Americans on a suspicion of their being connected with Sinn Fein. Some of th# men possessed firearms. After an examination of the remains of th© bomb in the Old Swan Lane, the Home office experts believe it is an amateurish production and probably contained only ordinary gun powder. It was not a Sinn Fein type of bomb. The experts believe the outrage has not any political significance. Three Sinn Feiners were shot dead in Ardee. / 4 ’• f