IRELAND

Southland Times, Issue 18842, 7 June 1920, Page 5

IRELAND

DEMONSTRATION AT WASHINGTON

BRITISH FLAG BURNED. (By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright.) (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) WASHINGTON, June 3. The State Department has ordered an inquiry into the burning of the British flag in the streets of Washington at the instance of a number of women friends of the Irish Freedom Movement. No steps have been taken by the British Embassy even to make a protest. YALE FACULTY’S PROTEST, DE VALERA AND THE REPUBLICANS. NEW YORK, June 5. (Received June 6, 5.5 p.m.) Sixty members of the Yale Faculty protested against the Congressional expression of sympathy with the Irish cause. De Valera arrived at Chicago to-day. He announced that he would try to obtain the Republican Party’s declaration in favour of the recognition of the “Irish Republic” by the United States. CORK DOCKERS BOYCOTT BARBEDWIRE.

LONDON, June 4. The dockers at Cork refused to discharge a shipment of barbed wire intended to fortify police barracks. Tint IRISH RAILWAYMEN. MR THOMAS’S REQUEST. LONDON, June 4. (Received June 6, 5.5 p.m.) Mr J. H. Thomas telegraphed to the Irish branch of the National Union of Railwaymen, asking them to resume work pending a conference at Bristol on June 15, regarding the handling of munitions. THE FEELING IN AMERICA. NEW ZEALAND LADY’S LETTER. Commenting on the feeling in America towards England in regard to the Irish question, a New Zealand lady who has spent the last few months in America and is at present residing in San Francisco, in a letter to her brother in Invercargill, states:

“The Americans, for some reason or other (jealousy of England. I think) take a great interest in Ireland, and have given a lot of money for Irish liberty bonds to free Ireland from the oppression of England. They have been told innumerable lies by de Valera and Judge Flood, of San Francisco and have believed them. They make much more fuss here of St. Patrick’s Day than the Irish do in New Zealand or Australia. One seldom hears anything about England’s side of the question, but at church last evening a lieutenant delivered an address on the subject from an Ulsterman’s point of view. He spoke brilliantly and wittily and .after his address the audience crowded round him and congratulated him. I heard numerous remarks from people who stated that they had changed their opinion of England a little. Someone caid to me afterwards. T guess it did your British heart good,’ and you can be sure it did because since coming to America it is the first occasion on which I have heard anything good said of England in regard to the Irish question.”