CABLE NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 21 March 1922, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

THE IRISH PROBLEM.

HETJTEIt’B TELEGRAMS. An ARMED RAID; LONDON, Mai^JS; Arriied men obtained eriifcpFyT td Tyrone barracks by ai ruse, and .creeping upstairs in stockinged feet tied up the entire police) force, placed the revolvers, ammunition, bedding, clothing n.nd bicycles of the police on waiting motors and got safely away, though large forces of troops from other towns are( scouring the country.

HUNGER STRIKING. LONDON, March 20. Twenty-five Republicans in Derry prison, undergoing long terms of peftfll servitude iri coiiiieclioh with rbtieHi border raids and kidnapping have commenced, a hunger-strike as a .protest against a denial of treatmenthitherto accorded political prisoners.

FIELD MARSHAL WILSON. LONDON, March 19. Field-Marshal Wilson (late Chief of the British General Staff), on the eve of assuming his new position as Commandant of Police in Belfast, has written to Sir Jamies Craig (Ulster Premier) as follows: Owing to the action of Mr Lloyd George, the South and West of Ireland were reduced to chaos' and murder. It is difficult to believe, and impossible to describe. A further consequence of Mr Lloyd George’s policy is to be seen in the unrest, suspicion and lawlessness which .has spread to the frontier ofJQL Jg, ster. It iai impossible to find under Mr Lloyd George’s Government, one man wo can crush murder and anarchy, and re-establish law and order, It is frank* l.v and laughingly impossible; bec&itsb men who are oiily capable of losing ait Empire rire obviously iiicapablfe of regaining it. Wilson gobs oil to advise Craig id ” Get Britain dn Ulster’s side,” and td tell Britain the real truth as th the coiidilion in Ulster; He says : “ With Britaifi on ybur side, there is nothing which eantidt he done.” Wilson also advises a reorganisation of the Ulster police. He urges ari amendment of the Arms Act,

WEEK-END IN BELFAST. LONDON, March 19. There was a sanguinary week-end lit Belfast, with many outrages, resulting in six being killed and scores wounded The most wicked atrocity was the flinging of a bomb in through the bedrom window of an aged Catholic lady, who was wounded. Her niece Was killed. This explosion attracted hundreds of rival factions, who sniped at each other for- hours. The gunmen thereafter were left apparently immune from interference, and they shot away at people indiscriminately, wounding many with their rifles and their bombs. One miscreant who had bombdd a. tramcar on Saturday was helped colleagues, who put up a revolver bar-, rage. The Ulster police have raided St. Mary’s Hall, in Belfast, the Sinn Fein headquarters. They seized voluminous documents,

DE VALERA DETERMINED. LONDON, March 19. - Mr de Valera (Sinn Fein president) •ontinues to endeavour to widen the breach between the Treaty suporters uid the Republicans. Speaking at KllInriiey, Mr de V alera is reported as having forecaster and pleaded for civil war. by saying:— “Those who want complete free- ■ dom, such as the armed men now before me, must meet, not merely foreign soldiers, but those forces of their own contrymen who support the - Free State Government. If tilts T’reuty is ratified, you, who are desirous of achieving freedom, must march over the dead bodies of your own brothers. You must wade over the dead bodies of your own brothers. You must wade through Irish blood.