ENGLAND AND IRELAND.

Taihape Daily Times, 4 September 1919, Page 5

ENGLAND AND IRELAND.

I _ ~——«»-—~- I Ireland 15 again in the limelight, at ugunq-unning scare is now on. More' English troops have just been sent in—~ to Ireland——this time also into the Norah, to guard against an Ulsterist‘ epidemic_ And some folks will say, “That is the English way-force‘ again!” (which .isn’t the modern Eng-' ilish way, vide South Africa). while! others will continue why. Commenting] lupon the ‘American anti—Bl-itish and; Ipro—rebel delegations which recently visited Ireland and Paris (with the full sanction of the British G-.wnrn-ment), the latest London Daily Express to hand says «editorially. “In this country, unfortunately few care a fig for the Irish question. In the war many Englishmen saw in Ireland ‘300,000 healthy young men who had .no better employment than to stand about at street corners cheering Ger-‘ man victories. Had these young men‘ gone into the fight to save civilisation‘ lEnglishmen would HOW have been in ithe mood to give the Irish all they asked. It is not s_o. Ireland is adImittedly a festeiing sore. We.s~hculd' }all be glad to get’ rid of it. But not, fat the Sinn Fein price of an enemy country at our back door. We must :‘ and will worry out the ‘problem for and by ourselves. The visit of Messrs Dunne, Walsh, and Ryan was as unfortunate as their report is impudent." The Express is S-ir Arthur Pea.rson’s paper, and he is very English.