IRISH RULE

New Zealand Times, Volume XLVI, Issue 10608, 5 June 1920, Page 7

IRISH RULE

THE ARMED FORGES

PROPOSED CONTROL BY SINN FEINERS NEGATIVED.

SIR EDWARD CARSON'S CANDOUR. By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright Aus. ajid N.Z. Cablo Assn. and Iteuter. (Received June 5, 12.10 a.m.; LONDON, June 2. In the House of Commons, on the Home Rule Bill, Captain Cooto moved to oust the provision reserving- to Im perial control the armed forces of tho Crown. Ho suggested: "If we pivo the Irish Parliaments control of the nrmed forces things will come to such a pass that Irishmen will be compelled to unite." Mr Walter Long said that the fact that additional troops wero still being dispatched to Ireland proved the determination of the- Government do everything to restore matters. Ex service men in Ireland wero being hounded out of the country by Sinn Feiners, yet it was proposed in tho amendment to transfer to the Sinn Feiners the control of the armed forees. There was no comparison between Ireland and the Dominions on this point, and any attempt to hand over the .-■military 'forces to the Irish Parliaments ought to be resisted to the uttermost.

Sir Edward Carson opposed the amendment. He appealed to the Government to modify the bill with A view of delegating certain specific powers to the Irish Parliaments, which ought to be enlarged in the future, while tho real strength and power waa left to tho Imperial Parliament.- He bclievod, moreover, that the bill would lead to separation, and said the people of Ulster were complaining that the Government was kicking them out. The state of things in the south and west was hideous and disgraceful to the British Government. Tho amendment was negatived without a division.

FURTHER DESTRUCTION. MANY TROOPS _ LANDTNG IN THE SOUTH. (Received June 5, 12.55 a.m.) LONDON, June a. Sinn Feiners have attacked and destroyed five more coastguard stations. A Government troopship is landing soldiers, with full equipment, at Bantry Bay and other contingents, equipped with campaigning material, are disembarking at other places. Two thousand marines are going to Qneenstown to be distributed among the various coast stations owing to the recent Sinn Fen seizures of fog signals and rockets which put the signalling stations iut if nctfin.