DR. MANNIX.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 2162, 12 August 1920, Page 4

DR. MANNIX.

LANDED AT PENZANCE. TRANSFERRED TO DESTROYER. London, August 0. A dost rover landed Dr. Mannix at Penzance (at llio eastern rx(remit v of Cornwall). Telegrams from Queenstown slate Unit (lie Bailie arrived off the port at midnight, and slopped for an hour Avhile.oiie of the convoying destroyers entered Queenstown for some purpose unknown. Replying in the House of Commons to Major Barnes, Mr Bonar Law said the prohibit ion against D.i‘. Mannix landing in Ireland was ordered by competent military authority there, acting under the Defenee id' the Realm Aet regulations. DEMONSTRATIONS OF PROTEST London, August !). Seolland Yard annonneed that 'Arehbishop Mannix would not he permitted to land at Liverpool. The aelnal port of disembarkation was kept strictly secret. Demonstrators in Londonderry hoist ed Sinn Fein Hags and shouted “Up Mannix." This provoked a Unionist eon nter-demons! rat ion. The poliee and military intervened, but several people were injured. Dr. Browne. Bishop of Cloyne. read a pastoral letter in Queenstown eoneerning the insulting treatment of Dr. Mannix, which, lie said, did not lower the exalted esteem in which Dr. Mannix was held by .Irishmen. , Ili' appealed to Irishmen during the welcome to avoid giving l offence and causing .irritation. He added that Dr. Mannix was not (mining as an agitator to make inllaiuI matory speeches, but he was re--1 Lii ruing to his native land solely to | see his venerable mother and meet friends, lie desired that his visit should be unheralded. The Morning Post, describing Dr. Mannix as a pestilent, malignant prelate. -m vs ll.m t loveriinn-nl must not stultify ils decision by halfmeasures. He should be reshipped to Australia by tin* lir-t boat. A NEW IRISH TERROR. Dublin, Angnsi 1). A new secret society has,started to terrorise the South ol Ireland. It is an anti-Sinn Fein body, styled the ‘‘Brotherhood of Irish Avengers," and it promises a programme .of outrages,, burning, and violence.