IN IRELAND

Hokitika Guardian, 21 February 1921, Page 2

IN IRELAND

•NOixvMdssv hmhvo -z-n aKV Nvnviusnv DESTRUCTION OF PROPERTY. LONDON, Feb. 19. Tlic Cork sessions awarded Robert Ferguson and Company £213,000 for the destruction of his drapery business during the Cork fires (cabled December 12th). A CURL'S DEATH. (Received this day at 8 a.m.) LONDON, February 19. Bettie Bray, daughter of an excise official, recently shot by the Curfew patrol, Belfast, has died. Colivett, a Sinn Fein member of the Commons for Limerick city, has been uYrcsted.

.AN ALLEGED RAID. LONDON, February 9th. Armed Sinn Feiners raided three boarding houses in the Irish quarter of Liverpool during the night and reached the bedrooms. They took tickets and passports from a dozen young Irishmen hooked to sail for New York to-day. The rebels ordered the victims to return to Ireland immediately. They gained admittance by saying they were police making enquiries. The action is considered as a development of a scheme for preventing youths emigrating to America, thus depleting the ranks of the Republican Army. Police search for suspects is hampered because no one will give the descriptions of the raiders although the latter were not masked. Cunard officials issued duplicate passports tickets, enabling some of the victims to sail today. others following by the-first boat.

MR ASQUITH’S INDICTMENT. LONDON, February 19 The Rt. Hon. H. H. Asquith, speaking at St. Pancras, stated that the reparations arrangements sanctioned in Paris could not be carried into effect from a practical viewpoint. Referring to the Government’s refusal to publish General iStriek bind’s Veport, Mr Asquith said that Irish prosperity had been destroyed, innocent people killed and the bodies mutilated. The Government while setting up a League of Nations was indulging in ugly lawless violence thinking that when order had been restored the cowed and subjugated Irish would gratefully accept the Home Rule Act. A NEWSPAPER REPORT. London; February 19. The Evening Standard states that pro-' minent London business men have received Sinn Fein threats against, their property. Special guards have been posted. TERRORISM in DUBLIN.

LONDON, Feb. 19. Hie latest military move in Dublin, the investment, covers an area of five miles square. It is in the Alountjoy district. It affects 35,000 people. The troops are being supported by tanks and also by armoured cars, with searchlights. They have closed the area by barbed wire entanglements and by sandbag defences. House to house, searches are in progress. They will probably last for two days. Machine guns line the Dublin streets. Some are even placed on the roofs of the house. Some are in the windows. All work and business in the area has been suspended. " The trams have been stopped. Only urgent food supplies are being allowed to go through the cordon. The object of investment is to locate some wanted men. They are believed to be hiding there. Hundreds o t’tlie young men are being assembled in the Mouiitjov Square.

“TRAITORS, BEWARE!” LONDON, Feb. 19. Six armed men invaded the Cork Workhouse during the night and ordered an inmate named Michael Walsh, to accompany them. Subsequently, Walsh’s dead body was found outside with the Republican Army’s warning: “Caught at last Traitors and informers, beware!”. • IRELAND’S CAUSE. LONDON, Feb. 18. The well-known writer, Mr Arthur O’Brien, writing in the newspapers, puts forward the case on behalf of the Irish Self Determination League here, tie Yays: Archbishop Bourne’s (the Catholic Primate of England) recent letter .(cabled on February 14), has aroused the greatest indignation among the Irish Catholics residing in England. They repudiate Cardinal Bourne’s claim to the right to use bis ecclesiastical office in order to influence AngloIrish Catholics politically. Even in matters of faith and morals, he points out, the Irish Catholics prefer the Irish hierarchy’s guidance.” Mr O’Brien says: “Cardinal Bourne has never protested against the English Government’s acts pf barbarism, and of repression in Ireland, and this Archbishop is mistaken if he thinks that his political lectures will assist the British diplomatic activities at the Vatican, which are aimed at obtaining a Papal condemnation of the Irish Republican demand. Cardinal Bourne and the English Catholics should understand that the Irish people throughout the world will not accept Rome’s political dictation.

DUBLIN CASTLE’S REPORT. LONDON, February 19. Dublin Castle’s weekly ‘report comments on the smaller successes attending Republican criminal efforts and predicts a considerable improvement in the situation owing to the steady drain on the Republicans’ resources, arrests of members and the seizure of material.