IN IRELAND.

Hokitika Guardian, 8 February 1921, Page 3

IN IRELAND.

BY TELEGRAPH —PRESS ASSN., COPYRIGHT.

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION

BISHOP OF CLOYNE

reuter’s telegrams. LONDON, Feb. 6. The keynote of Lenten pastoral letter issued by Bishop Cloyne, is that

Britain’ is imitating the ways oi the Hun and the condition of Ireland at ; . present parallels that of Belgium during the late war. He adds that peace is the urgent need of the hour, hut a request for a truce of God was met by a ferociously applied martial law. The future is still seemingly dark. The Home Rule Act will only foster and perpetuate disunion .among Irishmen. At the same time, the road to freedom I does not lie through crime, and no use- i ful result will follow the murder of policemen.

WHOLE TOWN RAIDED. LONDON, Feb. 7

Military forces systematically searched Queenstown, the port of Cork. • Practically every' house was entered, j All the persons under 40 years of ag. j were detained, and. wore escorted to Ihe barracks. There they wore all as | sembled for identification purposes. •

MAYOR OH CORK. j PHILADELPHIA, Feh. 6. Donald O’Callagßan (Mayor of Cork), has unexpectedly appeared at Philadel- ( phia, and he there addressed an and- , ience, asking for tho United States’ recognition of Ireland. He indicated that- ho was leaving for Ireland shortly, but on his own volition. He added that the Labour De- 1 partment had intimated a date when h 0 must leave the country, but it had , granted him full freedom of movement in Fie meantime.

MORE SHOOTINGS. (Received This Hay at 8.30 a.m.) LONDON, Fob. 7. ' Michael Collins, Adjutant General of the Sinn Fein Army, was shot dead in the Skibberen light cabled on the 3rd. ( ! Constable Gumming of Ulster Constabulary, was 'murdered at Warrenpoint by a bomb which was thrown I from behind a wall. - A military patrol surprised a party 1 of men at Clonmel, making a trench. 1 Shots ..were exchanged, a youth being i shot dead and one soldier injured.

BISHOP OF CORK. " THE TIMES ” SEUVIOE. (Received this day at 11.30 a.m.) LONDON, February 7. Bishop Cohalan, of Cork, in a Lenten Pastoral letter says—According to the teaching of our church, Ireland is not a republic. The Pope has not accepted the Irish Republic.' The proclamation of the Sinn Fein members of Parliament is not sufficient to constitute such. If a sovereign state, she has the right to use physical fpree. If nothing else, physical force is unlawful. However desirous she is of absolute independence, and it cannot be held that she is validly a sovereign* State. Whenever tried in the past, physical force has failed to restore freedom. If the Partition Bill is not amended, and an election announced, the elector should insist on the fullest freedom, and consider whether to take what they have got, and strive for better or indefinitely submit to Crown colony oppression.