RESTLESS IRELAND

New Zealand Times, Volume XLIV, Issue 10290, 27 May 1919, Page 5

RESTLESS IRELAND

DISCUSSION IN THE COMMONS

GOVERNMENT CANNOT PARLEX WITH SINN FEIN.

By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. , LONDON, May 15 (delayed).

Mr V. Hartshorn, in the House of Commons, moved a resolution condemning military rule in Ireland, and urged the Government to grant self-govern-ment and self-determination. Mr Cavendish Bcntinck supported the motion. He said ho had completely changed his opinion. He believed that if the 'Government threw the responsibility on the people of Ireland to manage their affairs they would develop a national individuality, which would result in contentment and the best-gov-erned community in the Empire. The Chief Secretary was engaged in a mere scuffle with the Irish people. Mr J. I. Macpherson (Chief Secretary) said the Government had dealt with enormous patience with the IrishAmcrican delegation. Tho Government was anxious to find a solution. Ireland to-day was more prosperous than any other country in the world. Constitutionalism must be revived. The Government could not parley with the Sinn Fein, which was endeavouring to disrupt tho Empire. TRAIN HEATUP BY MASKED MEN. PRISONER RESCUED—CON ST A DDE KILLED. LONDON, May 15 (delayed). Twenty masked men held up a passenger train at a wayside station in Limerick County. They rescued a Sinn Fein prisoner, killed one policeman, and severely wounded another. No arrest was made.