UNREST IN IRELAND.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXIX, Issue 3768, 27 June 1907, Page 4

UNREST IN IRELAND.

London, June 24

Mr Redmond, speaking at New Ross at the unveiling of a memorial of Wexford men who had fallen in battle, at New Ross in 1798, declared that the principle of nationality wherefor men in 1798 fought, would neevr be surrendered. , They might differ as to methods, but all were j united- in demanding one j object, namel}' the freedom of Ireland. She was the Empire’s weakness, but if England was able to win her goodwill by a fi'ank concession of freedom to her people that would be more value to her than the goodwill of all her colonies put together. The Wexford men told England that they hated her, and they were as much rebels against her rule as in 1798, and she could and she would change that hatred by a grant of freedom, and by nothing else. The anti-grazing disturbances are so serious that the police in lonely parts of Roscommon have been armed with the latest pattern of magazine rifle. The potato blight has alread}' appeared in many parts of Ireland. The Department of Agriculture recommends that immediate preventative measures be taken.

A P. Kelly was remanded to gaol for a week for inciting to violence.

Feeling runs very high in Galway and only Kelly’s secret arrest prevented a demonstration being organised on his arrival there. The executive of the Sinn Fein dissents from the policy of the National directory, whose minimum demand, it declares, is a sovereign parliament with powes equal and coextensive with those of the British Parliament.

The Hon. Mr Ure, SolicitorGeneral in the present Ministry, in a speech at Manchester, said he was unable to conceive a greater mistake than the Liberal Government’s trimming and fashioning of Bills to conciliate a pack of nobodies carrying constituencies under their hats.

The Irish League is initiating great Plome Rule demonstrations throughout Ireland, and is asking the Nationalist members of the House of Commons, public boards, Gaelic and athletic societies, and other bodies to co-operate and make the demand for self-government irresistible.