IRELAND

Southland Times, Issue 18828, 22 May 1920, Page 5

IRELAND

POLICY OF ACTION. ORDER TO BE RE-ESTABLISHED. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright.) (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) LONDON, May 19. Replying to Lord Salisbury in the House of Lords, the Lord Chancellor emphatically declared that it was the policy of the Government whether the struggle was short or long, to employ the whole available resources of Britain to restore law and order in Ireland, and render the Secessionary campaign now in progress utterly impossible. The forces in Britain were as deeply committed to carrying to success the Government’s purpose in Ireland as they were to carrying out its purpose in the late war. If the troops now were insufficient more would be sent. The only limits would be the extended degree of the crisis. If the existing military formation was insufficient, the Government would not hesitate to ask the population of the country to increase the forces as in the crisis of the war.

The new military policy is more and more evident in Ireland, where the cavalry is increasingly active. Hussars are patrolling the hills outside Dublin and others are at Wicklow. A naval brigade has arrived at Skibbereon. Further military detachments are arriving daily in the south-west and are occupying police barracks.

De Valera, in a cable to Mr Arthur Griffith, Dublin, urges the Irish Nationalists, particularly the women, to go to the polls at the elections next month to “expose the falsehood circulated by British propagandists that the desire to uphold the Irish Republic is weakening.” MUNITIONS FOR THE TROOPS. A LABOUR BOYCOTT. LONDON, May 20. (Received May 21, 7.35 p.niri The English dockers and Irish transport workers have agreed not to handle munitions intended for use m Ireland.

RIOT CASUALTIES AT LIMERICK.

LONDON, May 20. (Received May 21, 5.5 p.m.)

As the result of disorder at Limerick at night time the police and military arrived and some firing occurred. A civilian was shot dead, an old woman was shot in the ankle, and a girl was wounded.