THE IRISH PROBLEM

Hokitika Guardian, 27 June 1922, Page 2

THE IRISH PROBLEM

lUSTRALIAN ANI) N.Z. CAULI-l ASSOCIATION

XFAV IRISH PARLIAMENT. LONDON, June 26. 'the filial tigl.i’es for the Irish Provisional Parliament are: pro-Treiity Aitti-Trenty Labour E tinners’ I’nion ' Independents *> Large numbers of Irish-Americans are returning. Thirteen hundred landed at the week-end. STEAM Ell SEA RCH ED. UNI HP) BKUVIOK TKI.FCnAMIS. LONDON, June 24. It is reported that Customs Officers in London searching the steamer Fi,viler, oil Scotland Yard instructions discovered ii quiintity of revolver tlmmunitioii. Two of the crew tterd arrested. The Foyrier was bound from Hamburg to Limerick and put in to Thames to discharge portion of the Cargo.

ULSTER ASSOCIATION’S REPLY LONDON, June 26.

The Ulster Association, replying to Mr de Valera, describes his statement as all outrage to decency, to fcieign instincts and British and Irish chivalry. It might have been thought, the Association stated, that oil such si-n occasion as this, \vhep the whole wt>rld was stunned by such !i murder, the voice of de Valera would have kept silent, hut instead, lie had chosen a most solemn occasion to make statements which were not onlv a travesty of the truth, hut were maliciously designed to excuse a crime unparalleled in the tragic history of Irish jiffairs.