THE IRISH PROBLEM.

Hokitika Guardian, 23 August 1922, Page 3

THE IRISH PROBLEM.

CABLE NEWS.

WAR ROMANCE. UNITED SERVICE TELEGRAMS. illeoeived this day at 8.30 a - m -> LONDON, August 21. The “Daily Mail’s” Limerick correspondent states the romance of the Irish war has been disclosed. Colonel Commandant O’Neill one of the best fighting Free Staters obtained marriage leave, travelling with his * Roscrea for the ceremony. When wit - Min sight of the church, motor oars ambushed the party who were taken prisoners and conveyed to rebe 1 ‘9 ters in the mountains. The corner . were released, but the Colonel was detained. A few days his fiancee received a message after which sh taken to a farmhouse in the mountains, where a priest performed the ceremony. Her husband is still a captive.

BERNARD SHAW’S VIEW. (Received this day at 10.10 am.) LONDON, August 22. Bernard Shaw who has returned from Ireland says what does it matter for Ireland dear, we fall. That is rebel idiots battle song. The idiocy is sanctified by memories of the time w there was really nothing to he dime for Irish freedom but to die for 1 • time has now come for Irishmen to learn to live for their country, instead of which they have blown up bndg and burned homesteads and factories, gaining nothing therefrom. The cause of Ireland was always doggedly ridiculed, which we have such fatal grft* of provoking and expressing. • P pose it will have to be settled by miother massacre of Irishmen by Irishmen If de Valera had any political genius he might have averted it, hut I cannot persuade myself that he lias any. De Valera and Childers had the choice of subduing the country m British fashion and coercing it into a Republic whether it wanted or did not want it, or living like brigands. The leaders are now pretending that they are contending for a principle while their followers are following Brigandism.

A HOLD-DP. (Received this day at 12.25 p.m.) LONDON, August 22. Two armed men held up a motor car of the manager of the National Ban at Ballyshannon arid robbed him of fifty pounds worth of silver. The manager notified the National Commandant and soldiers were immediately despatched and captured the Irregulars in the mountains and recovered the silver.