IRISH AFFAIRS.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3471, 27 April 1920, Page 5

IRISH AFFAIRS.

RESTRAINING INFLUENCE OF CLERGY._

Received 11.40 a.m.

LONDON, April 26.

The Manchester Guardia.n’s Dublin col-respondent ins.ists, that despite ap--pearances, the church stands between the_Governmentcand Irish anarchy. It is unqllestiofinable that a majority of bishops and priests constantly risk their popularity by counselling patience and the observance of laws. The Government ought- to put greater value on clerical 'rc~o<-operation’, and therefore abandon the provocative Education Bill.

MOUNTJOY TACTICS.

REPEATED AT WORMWOOD SCRUBS. ’

LONDON, April 25.

One hundred and fifty Irish prisoners in Vvormwood Scrubs prison demand release. The majority have been. hunger-striking since Wednesday‘, though a‘ few have lbeen exempted by their comrades owing to their physical condition. One has already been released and sent to a nursing home owing to heart failure. Others are reported to be reaching a state of collapse. " Members ofkthe Irish Self-detennim ation League of Great Britain decided to repeat at Wormwood Scrubs the scenes outside Mountjoy _ Prison. Seven thousand sympathisers" assexnbled, representing heighten” branches of the Irish pipers, and

carrying Republican‘ flags, 'A] priest recited the rosary in Irish anti the crowd cheered when handkerd chiefs were waved from the windows.‘ The cheers were answered by cheers’ from inside. Later flames were seen‘ inside the prison and it was rumoured!’ that the Sinn Feiners were seting fire to their- blankets. Every head in the«_' crowd was uncovered when the lrislz‘_ Diners played “God Save Ireland."The prisoners inside joined in the Singing of “The ‘Wearing of the? Greenj’ There were no disorders. ARMED MEN AMBUSH CON- ‘ STABLES. T I ' LONDON, April 25. A large party of armed men at In«; nishanon (Cork) ambushed three com ‘stables on patrol duty. They fired a: volley without warning, shooting Sera geant Croan in the heart and blowing off part of Constable McGoldrick’s_ head. The third constableiesca.pecl_ "