IN IRELAND.

Hokitika Guardian, 21 April 1921, Page 3

IN IRELAND.

j AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. | LLOYD GEORGE! ON IRELAND. SPIRITED REPLY TO BISHOPS. LONDON, April 19. Hon. Lloyd George in a long letter in reply to Bishops and other churchmen, who wrote condemning reprisals by the Crown forces, says it is utterly untrue that there has been any authorisation or condonation of a policy of meeting ! murder by unchecked violence. Acts of indiscipline are now increasingly infrequent. The genera] record of patience endurance, displayed by the sorely tried police will command the admiration of posterity.' The Sinn Fein has inaugurated a reign of terror and murder of its opponents ruthlessly. The present quarrel is not about the Home Rule Act, hut secession. Government would never give way on this fundamental point. To abandon the use of force would he to surrender to violence crime and separation, and that I am not prepared do. .- MORE SHOOTINGS. (Received This Day at 8.30 a.m.) LONDON, April 20. Armed men held up a train for two hours between Dublin and Ballisodare, in Sligo. Constables Kelly and Hetlierington were taken from the train and shot dead.

1 I JURYMAN SHOT, ej | (Received this day at 12.30 p.in.) 1 j LONDON, April 20. 3 j O’Sullivan, a prominent Sinn Feiner j of Tralee, who served on the Coroner’s ! jury inquiring into M(.'Curtain’s death, j was shot at Cork last night. Hie * ] man was of splendid physique, and was j called upon to halt, hut ho ran. The " j police pursued O’Sullivan, who dashed 1 i into a liouso and tried to escape by a j window of a hack room. He was shot '! dead while dropping to the ground.