THE IRISH PROBLEM.

Hokitika Guardian, 20 December 1922, Page 2

THE IRISH PROBLEM.

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. IRISH OUTRAGES - LONDON .Dec 19. Armed men set fire to the Gordon Campbell, Lord Glenary’s ■soil, Dublin. Raiders knocked at the front door and asked to see the iniscliildren as they had been ordered to tress whom they ordered to remove the children as they had been instriu ted to' set fire to the place. hell assisted his wife to remove children after which tli< incendiaries*-' sprinkled the rooms with pa'nffin and \ set fire to the house. Four rooms were ablaze when the tiro onga.de arrived. They succeeded in saving the remainder, hut the furniture and most of the inteiior. fittings were all. de stroyeu. Campbell who i.s an official in the Ministry of Labour helped to adjust hundreds of labour disputes during the last few years. Two bombs were thrown into the office of the IVish Independent, hut no •y'gdatnago was done. IRISH STRUGGLE. LONDON, Dee 18. Mr lie Valera attended Mass at the fashionable University Church at St Stephen’s'Green, in Dublin yesterday. He was recognised by those near him. Only tlirea dared to leave Mass and warn the headquarters of the Free State ti-oops, A force of troops arrived just after the congregation had poured out, hut De Valera had escaped in the crowd. . It is generally believed that De Valera has now been disposed from chiefship of the Republicans, FREE STATE UPHELD. LONDON, Dec 18. j The Scottish Sinn Fein Clubs have ~ decided to support the Irish ' Free State Government. They have decided also to form an Irish Exile League of Britain, which they are endeavouring to. extend throughout the country. Mr Cosgrave, Irish Premier, has sent a message to tins clubs as follows: “Ireland feels that she call count upon tho moral support of her eliildreii in Scotland in the present tusk of Combating an internal faction and of restoring peace.”