THE IRISH PROBLEM

Hokitika Guardian, 5 April 1922, Page 3

T H E IRISH PROBLEM

»l> 1 »<• I.IAN AMi N.Z. (.ABLE AS.-OCIAIION ULSTER’S DAMAGED REPUTATION. LONDON, April 3. At a meeting of three thousand representatives of business men, at Belfast, it was decided to form an association to work lor peace, and to take steps to put Ulster’s case and difficulties more clearly to the world than had hitherto been done, because it was felt Ulster’s enemies conducted propaganda that was damaging her reputation. Sir J. Craig (Ulster Premier) addressed the meeting privately. The meeting pledged itself to support his efforts, to subvert externa] or internal enemies and to suppress crime.

LANDING ARMS AT CORK. LONDON. April 3. The Hon. Mr Churchill, speaking in the House of Commons, said that the tug captured in Queenstown Harbour. in Cork by a party of the I.R.A. contained four hundred rifles, seven hundred revolvers, thirty nine machine guns and half a million rounds of rifle ammunition. It was rebel Republicans who captured the tug, taking her on the high seas. They took her to a bay nearby, and landed the arms in a hundred motor ears, which had been commandeered in Cork. Then the British destroyer Heather reached the bay, but found the populace looting the tug. The incident he said, was dishonourable, and a breacn of the truce entered into, not by the Irish Provisional Government, but by the elected representatives of the Irish people. The Admiralty, be added were holding an inquiry, and the future movements of munitions would i be guarded.

•THE BELFAST OUTRAGE. /Received This Dnv at. 12.25 p.m.) LONDON, April 4

MaoMalion’s eldest son, cabled, on 25th March, has died. The sole survivor of the outrage is another son, who is still in the hosnital.