THE IRISH PROBLEM.

Hokitika Guardian, 22 November 1921, Page 3

THE IRISH PROBLEM.

liSTK.tI.IAN ANI> N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. SUPPORT OF ULSTER. !Received'This Day at 9.40 a.m.) LONDON, November 21).

Lord Ampthil! speaking at the National Constitutional Association rally i u support of Ulster, said Englishmen would not submit to the suppression of freedom of speech and concealment of matters affecting the nation. The country did not give the Government mandate for things it had done and was doing. lie added that all want peace. Imt not at the price of dishonour, or in the form of a betrayal of friends, which would place more powd in the hands of alien mongrel conspirators. the sworn implacable enemies of England. Admiral Hall, a t'onuuoncr, said a false step had been made by entering into a conference with rebels which hail an immediate client. Ibe quarrel to-dav was between the Riitisll Government and Ulster The latter had ltoen manoeuvred round by Sinn Fein.

A FIH KOKAND'S SI'KKCH. ateceived This T):i v at 1.30 p.m.') MINIXIN, Nov. 21 At tlio National Constitutional Association railv, Oneral Prescott Decie. said: “Three times we have had the revolutionists hv the throat, and each time we were polled oil.

Martial, law, as applied bv the Bn tish Government, favoured revolution ists. Tip prayed Heaven that IBstei would not give way. I hey would have to fl^lit sooner or later. lie would ijolit now, and send these Sinn Fein murderers and their Bolshevik jVT 1 1 *■ ■ bad; to Hell, whence they came. A resolution moved by Mr Grettoo was adopted. urging Government >■„*, to enter into an agreement with Sinn Fein until the latter give effective prcol of their allegiane to the Throne, and 'until the idea of a separate army n Ireland is abandoned; also that Hm meeting records its deep sense of humiliation and regret that negotiator should he taking place between the British Government and persons steeped to the lips in an expressed policy of assassination.