IRISH AFFAIRS.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3464, 19 April 1920, Page 5

IRISH AFFAIRS.

EXPORT OF I*‘OODS'I"'U]?'FS STOPPLJD.

LONDON, April us.

In] obedience to yesterday’s manifesto, no butter, pigs, or bacon ‘were ofl"‘el-e<l‘for export from Dubliix. One hundred and twenty thousand tfJllspol't ‘workers ha_Vc been instructed to stl'ik"e‘imnlc_dill~tcly goods are tendered for export.

MORE OUTJRAGES‘

LONDON, April _l6,

A crowd at Limerick railway station stoned police who were escorting mails. The police fired, slightly wounding several. ’ Forty armed men held. up :1 mail car’ at Charleville, County Limerick. and seized the, mails. They then allowed the driver to pl'oc‘e'E'U.

Sir Hamar Greenwood, interviewed, suicl he was gciingi‘ in lreland, as all his -life he had been convinced that Home Rule was the desire of the poo‘plo, and he wished to appeal to moderate Irish opinion to help the Governmont in its ezirnest and sylnpatlicfic desire to settle -‘the Irish problem. He believed the vast. majority of Irishmen were opposed to violence, and the whole Empire was opposed to the ostablishniont of mi independent republic.

Captain White, son of the late FieldMarshal Sir Greorgcv White, was hunger-striking for four days ~ in Motmtjoy. He says he is‘ not in favour of resorting to physical force on behalf of Sinn Feihism.

A c.oroner’s ju’l‘y at Cork I'etlu'no.d. a \'erdic.’r of murder against Mr Lloyd George for the death of Mr MacCurmin. Foley, an ex-soldier, who joined the Irish Constabulary when he was demobilised, w:'l's found dead in .a creamery yard at Tl'aTee. There were fwonty—six bullet Wounds in his body. Foley had been blindfflded and his hands tied ‘beh‘in“('x"llinl., All the nrigina] Moull':.joy ‘hunger? strikers have nowdboon released.

BOARD OF GUARDIANS BOYCO’l."1‘ -.

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LoN.Dt‘>N,. - April 17.

V The Clonmol Board of Guardians, the majority of which are Sinn Feiners, passea x a I'(3SOl11“l7iv0'(1. excluding policemen and ex-soldiers from the Union hospital. The Board also dc» clared that ex-soldiers belonged to murder -clubs" organised to kill the Iris}: soldi.er.<. Subseqtiently six hundred ex-soldiers raided. the Board room, smashing the ful'nit\n‘e and fi’rtings. HOME RULE FOR SCOTLAND. Received 11.30 a.m. {lmperial News Service.) LONDON, April 'l6. In the House of Commons Mr Jnsepli Jolinstone, in moving the second reading of ‘the Scottish .H’)ll1(‘, Rule Bill, elainiezl Scotland ‘was at least as much entitled to 21. Parliament as Ulster. He emphasised that nobody in Scotland desired to interfere with the supremacy -of the Imperial Parliament. Mr Donald McLean, in supporting the Bill, said devolution would enable the Imperial Parlia.nlent to attend to Tniperial questions more closely_

5 The Secretary for'Scotla.nd admitted ‘the movement -had gained ground during recent: years. All successful Scot lfcish Commoners were pleugccl to Home liliule at the last election, The princi- . ple of Home‘ Rule for Scotland far out{weighed any objectjorxsv thaf could be advmmod. The Bil] was talked out