THE IRISH PROBLEM

Hokitika Guardian, 8 May 1922, Page 3

THE IRISH PROBLEM

i 4CSTHAMAN AND ri.SS. CABLE ASSOCIATION. MICHAEL COLLINS’ APPEAL. j AVASHINGTON, May (i. j .Alicheal Collins has sent a message through the Irish diplomatic mission, : appealing to Irish friends abroad to take no part in assisting or cncourag- ! ing the element in Ireland whose oh- j ject is to destroy the rights of five i speech, free assembly, free press and free election. IRISH UNITY CONKERKXCE. LONDON, May (1. i Mr Michael Collins, Mr Rory O’L'ou- I nor i Labour Leader), and Commandmt • Mnlcahy (.Chief of Staff in the I.R.A ). .' have attended a further conference of j the higher officers of the Irish Ropi-di- j can Army to-day. Hopes are now high j that progress towards unity is being ! made by two sections the Irish Army, j The Bail Eircann’s Peace Committee! has adjourned till Monday, after tnak- i ing a statement that the comma.od.--s ; on both sides of the Army have been ! instructed to arrange for a further pro- , longation of the truce. _ ! STRIKE IN ULSTER. ; LONDON, May h. | Notwithstanding heavy sentences, in- : eluding the cat, imposed on armed rob- j bers in Belfast, a raiding of offices

continues. The military forces me stopping all traffic In and out of Belfast, and are searching everyone. Several armed men drove np early one morning to a hotel at DungaL, in Tyrone, and shot dead the proprietor, John McCracken, a former district councillor. Some armed men removed John Cnrolan, a school teacher, and Denis Kilmartin, his nephew, from their beds in Duugiven. in County Derry, Ulster, and shot them on the roadway. The." threw them in a flax hole, from which Kilmartin crawled, dying from fire wounds. Neighbours later recovered Cardan’s body. Another armed party held up Jo m Mcßride, a former I.R.A. officer, on the roadside, at Donemana, in Tyrone, and'shot him. They lfcft him dying. RATDS ON BANKS. .Received This Dav it 8 a.m.) LONDON, May 6. Armed men in motors, raided the banks at Bailliehorough, Kilnaleck and Ballygamesduff, all in County Cavan, and'escaped with a large sum in each case. Similar hank raids were carried out at Pontvpass, County Armagh.