IN IRELAND.

Hokitika Guardian, 17 May 1921, Page 2

IN IRELAND.

iI’STHAI,IAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. ELECTION RESULTS. THE SOUTH PARLIAMENT. northern expectations. • LONDON, May 14 The election for the Southern Irish Parliament is completed, 125 Sinn Feiners being returned unopposed, including Arthur Griffiths, Michael Collins, Re Valera, Desmond Fitzgerald, Countess Markivicz, Mrs O’Callaghan (widow of ex-May or of Limerick), May McSweeney (sister of ex-Lord Mayor of Cork), Mrs Clarke a nd Mrs Pearce (widows of executed rebels:, all pledged not to take the oath of allegiance or work the act. About one-thi.d are in gaol and most of the others are on the run, a lew a heavv price on their heads. It is expected that Sinn Feiners and Nationalists will gain seventeen seats m the Northern Parliament, hut they will, not sit.

A DA RIN£! 15RCAPADK (Delayed). (Received This Day at 9.45 a.m.) LONDON, -May 16. Thirty Sinn Feiners, after a fight n which oiie soldier was wounded seized a military armed car awaiting meat sunplies at the abattoir. Dublin. T«v» Sinn Fritters wearing uniforms oi .R> tish officers wore driven in the car to .Mount Prison and presented to the Do vernor a forged document demandi 1 t that prisoner Griffiths, vice-President of the Republic be handed over. Ihe Governor refused doubting the gen li'i'ness of the document The intruders drew revolvers, overpowered, blind-fold-ed and tied tip the Governor and his assistant and locked them in a room. Other Sinn Feiners waiting in a car rushed the warders at the gate intending to rescue Griffith, but the alarm was given and the intruders retreated under fire and escaped in the car which was subsequently found outside Duhl-n with guns removed.

SIR J. CRAIG'S VIEWS. ißeceived This Day at 9.45 a.m.) LONDON, May 14.« Sir .J. Craig speaking at Comber, said when do Valera and his followers will endeavour to work a new act in South Ireland. I Relieve Nationalists and Sinn Feiners will not. adhere to the pledge not to sit in the northern Parliament if elected,” LORD ABERDEEN’S VIEWS. •Received This Dev at n..V, a m I LONDON, May 14. Lord Aberdeen, a former Viceroy of Ireland, interviewed said he believed a satisfactory settlement can be secured only by granting Ireland Dominion Home Rule of a most comprehensive kind.