IN IRELAND.

Hokitika Guardian, 10 December 1920, Page 3

IN IRELAND.

MR HENDERSON’S VIEWS

[LONDON TIMES SERVICE—COPYBIGUTj

(Received This Day at 12.20 p.m.) LONDON, Dee. -9.

Mr Henderson (a Commoner) in a speech at Houghreen declared it was certain, if the Government failed to give immediate consideration to the widespread desire- for a cessation of hostilities in Ireland, that a position of uttei chaps would result, more drastic than Cromwell practiced. Fire and the sword would he necessary to keep Ireland enslaved. The policy of the Government was producing in the mind of the Irish people the same effect as of a mad; dog loos© in the street. Coercion had been applied with such indiscriminate violence, that the people were terror stricken. He added that there was a great light in the darkness. His consultation with the leaders of all classes had disclosed an earnest desire for peace and willingness to join in reciproval arrangements to abandon acts of violence and every form 0 f provocation. What was wanted was a new spirit of conciliation, a period of truce and a conference with real leaders of the Irish people.

GETTING BACK TO REASON. (Reuter’s Telegram.) (Received This Day at 12.20 p.m.) ■LONDON, December 9. Railwaymen in Donegal have agreed to carry troops and ammunition. A similar decision is expected to become general in Ireland in the next few days.. Nine more Sinn Feiners have been arrested at Glasgow on a charge of attempting to. purchase rifles and machine guns from a Corporal of the Army Service Corps. They offered £550 for five hundred rifles and fifteen pounds each for machine guns.