CABLE NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 2 September 1921, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

THE IRISHIJROBLEIH. AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION, HE I. FA ST IHOTiNG. LONDON PRESS REPORTS. LONDON, Sept. I The London ".Morning Post” il'ni nist) .has a report from its Relhist correspondent stating: The public here have welcomed the intervention of ti troops, as it was feared that the disorderly elements were getting the upjH'r hand. The soldiers were stationed, with fixed bayonets, in the principal street, and also armoured ears at vulnerable points in the city. These prevented the trouble spreading. The disorders, however, continued at many places. Women and girls were fired on as they went to work, thus forcing 1 ■ mill owners to forbid the employees to leave the factories. The London "Morning Post’s” Helfast correspondent states: Scenes of indescribable panic followed an invasion . f a Protestant quarter of the city by some gunmen,' as one party of Sinn Eeiners, by a trick, secured admission to a York Street spinning mill and >!■•• a worker. Attacks on Unionists w repeated during the evening. when some shipyard workers and others wore leaving factories in West lielfast. The police in West Helfast, he says, were compelled to fire on a crowd un' ilie shipyardors had passed the danger zone.

THU CASUALTY HIST. LONDON, September !. The Helfast riot casualties up to Wednesday evening totalled 1-1 killed. \ Isuit 100 had been wounded. A VIOLENT MOVEMENT.. LONDON. September 1. The l»nd»n ‘‘Daily News” Dublin correspondent says: There is no doubt us to the meaning of this barbarous pogrom of Catholics in Helfast. It is intended by its promoters, who are the most violent Orange leaders, to wreck the peace movement, by making any rapprochniilit between the North and South of Ireland impossible. The correspondent continues: A wickeder device for the enthroning of a political feud and lot* bringing the half-built edifice of an Irish peace, crashing, cannot be imagined. At the same time, Sinn Fein is hardly entitled to complain after having itself taken up the swoid. Ry still keeping cool and acting in concert with AD' Lloyd George, Afr do Valera mav stem this pood, blithe must act quickly, and resolutely. , Unfortunately, says the correspondent. it rather looked now as though Air de Valera intended to qse the Ulster trouble in order to score off England and to gain a tactical advantage in the negotiations. If so. the consequence might be supremely tragic.

MILITARY dire ox CROWD. LONDON. Sppt.-mlu'r 1

Tli,' ‘•Daily Xmvi" Belfast torresvnpflnnt report that A\ ednesday < " *’• H-ulial.lv tli>- rierco»t liphtinp i» i>"' !;,n.r hist or v of Hoi fast riotiiio. The tiouble brok, out tfresh in the eveninp. ami the military lired on the moll. Olio ;x'ison heinp killed and four

injured. The Ulster Cabinet, the Lord Mayor ~f Helfast, and the miltary and police chiefs held a conference and arranged for addition troops to he drafted into the city RING ON IRISH QUESTION. LONDON. August 31. The King, replying to an address from the Convocation of Canterbury says :—“Lot us thank God that some measure of response has l>oen vouchsafed to mv appeal to the Irish people. With a full heart I pray that their reconciliation may he eonsumatcd by the deliberations now proceeding, and that they may be united in making a new era for their native land, f also wek-ome recent settlements in the industrial affairs of this country. Without them wo could not advance in rebuilding onr commercial prosperity, which is a paramount duty upon which depends the very life of the country, ft is the doty to which, in a spirit of sacrifice, every citizen and worker of every rank and class mast .willingly contribute bis or her portion, even as tliedid so nobly during the war. GENERAL SAIUTS’S RECEPTION. CAPETOWN. August 31. General Smuts was accorded a i-ivi ■ welcome on his return from London. In the course of a speech lie dealt with the Irish situation. He said that he had tried, on his arrival : n England, to see if .some Moderating influence could not !>•• brought to bear upon the horrible situation in Ireland. He had adopted the attitude, that if he had anything to do with it. it must lie upon two conditions. Firstly, he would not take action, unless he was invited by the Leader of the Irish people themselves. Ho had acted only when he received that invitation. His second condition was that he tfid not want to be connected with the British Government but wanted to set from an entirely outside point of view, as a third party, bringing to bear on an old situation the peculiar experience a squired during many hitter veats in the history of Africa. On those conditions he had .ottered into a discussion with all tile parties concerned. He succeeded in persuading the British Government that any scheme of Home Rule, to give satisfaction to Ireland, would have to go much further than they had gone l>efore. Ho explained the Dominion point of view, and the Government agreed w ith him that that viewpoint was the solution. Now thev had reached a difficult, but by no means hopelss stage. but they must- not be under the impression that what lie bad done had been a failure. He felt satisfied that success would come from people talking peace instead of murdering each utlioThere was a new atmosphere in Ireland It would take time and perseverance, but they w«rc on the right road. He believed that the British Government and the other parties would be persuaded to come down to bed-rock which was the Dominion Home Rule. ANOTHER VERSION. LONDON, Aug. 31 The "Daily Telegraph’s” Belfast coriospondent says: During the fee' a couple of Sinn Feiners took up a position in tlie direction of a crowd ot people congregated to watch events. This encouraged some other snipers to get to work. The crowd then fired in all directions. A number were wounded, the first being a youth, who was struck and dropped like a log, and when a crowd rushed and lifted him lip, another shot rang out. A little hoy screamed in terror, as lie also was wounded. The two victims wore carried into a chemist’s shop, upon which some gunmen fired, breaking a window. These gunmen paid no respect to old age, as they shot Jane McCracken, a centenarian, who was walking across the street. Finally one of the armoured ears drove up, and the gunmen cleared out of the Royal Avenue.