THE IRISH PROBLEM

Hokitika Guardian, 26 September 1921, Page 3

THE IRISH PROBLEM

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CARLE ASSOCIATION. THE IRISH DANGER. (Received This Day at 8.3 d a.m.) LONDON, September 24. A Dublin eni respondent supplies a statement made by an Independent authority possessing the highest credentials who had opportunities of seeing the Irish negotiations at close range, lie declares that peace wreckers are iioain silentlv working ill a final desperate effort Lu renew the war and unless the British people and the world public see to it. they will sticeeeil. SIGHTS TN IRELAND.

(Received This Day at l.b p.m.) LONDON, Sept. 25.

Harold Spender, the Daily Chronicle’s special correspondent touring Ire. land, saw strange sights in the villages along the Dublin roads. Most of the little villages fly STnu Fein (lags. In one village, men wearing Sim; Fein armlets, well marshalled, were outside the courthouse in which Sinn !'< mors were trying cases. No party in the south counts except Republican. Tbe whole population is out lor independence IT'oin British rule, some peacefully and some*violently. To judge from talks with many people by tli<' wayside all desire peace. It was hell they say, when speaking of the wrecked homes and mining friends. It was hell, the soldiers also say. telling of comrades foully murdered. Beth sides desire peace, but always on their own terms. The two sides are absolutely apart. On one side the soldiers and police have absolutely nothing to do, and are already tired of the truce. On the oilier side the Irish people say the gulf of blond fixed hettveen them will again flow more freely and more terribly unless civilian statesmen find a way out. Every man of clear judgment expects ,-i warfare more horrible, more devastating sind more extensive, if the struggle is renewed.