THE IRISH PROBLEM

Hokitika Guardian, 23 September 1922, Page 3

THE IRISH PROBLEM

AUSTRALIAN" AND N.Z. CAULK ASSOCIATION. IRISH CONSTITUTION, i Received this dav at 8 a.m.). LONDON. Sept 22. The Dail Eirennn carried tlm .second reading ul the Constitution Rii! by L to LG." Mr Duffy condemned the Con sti tut ion as less wide 1 than the Iroatv, 11. charged Ministers with lack of moral courage in abandoning the original draft. Mr Cosgrove replying, said Ministers had the moral courage to accept full responsibility lor their acts, and sufficient courage to arrest five or six thousand, and would arrest as many more if necessary to secure the country from danger.

MORE FIGHTING. IN ULSTER AND SOUTH. (Received this dav at 8.(10 a.m. LONDON. September 21. The latest reports from Ireland indicate a recrudescence o! lighting in 1 !- ster. in addition to continued warfare in the smith. Two Ulster constables were- ambushed near Markethill. one being wounded.

A patrol from ('higher. Tyrone, was ambushed on tile road to Monaghan. They- returned the fire and the ambushes Heel abandoning ammunition and Held dressings hut blocking the road with trepx. Shots woro tiled at n sentry in the neutral zone on Fermanagh border. There is no sign of the end of the Irish postal strike. The stafts are gradually increasing, hut commercial people are organising their own letter deliveries.

Tlv princip >! iifu s from the south U <>l an attack on Marioom. Newport. Jrivonlnrs at Newport osed machine onus. Innilis iiiul rifles. Troops replied vifiorouslv nml lii'inir <*ontinue(l lor fonr or five liours. The residents were* terrorised. Tlio wore eventually forced to retire.