IRISH AFFAIRS.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3495, 25 May 1920, Page 2

IRISH AFFAIRS.

......._———-—¢~ —————— SIR EDVVARD CARSON SUMS UP.

LONDON, May :21

In the House of 'Conlnl.cns, Sir 'l*-Id~ ward Carson, speaking regarding Ire--lan('lT"sa.i(hl there was ample evidence that the con«l'i‘{io_u of aflairs xvas, an part 01' prop-mlgzinda being carried on in Egypt and India. The chief Offices were in New York, and the directors of the campaign ‘Wel-e not a’n‘lmated by any deeire to help Ireland, but, fl~.Olll u hatrefi of Britain, they were working 'to destroy the British Empire. Whet‘-:ler it came from Ge?many 01' not, the greater part of mu funds for the movement came from Anlerica.

Mr Denis Henry, At‘:orll(=y~Gonor;a} for Ireland, describing the 111i1itL1r_\‘ measures, said the Chief Secretary’ "put cavzflry in tli‘e caftle-driving (listriets of Roscommon, Galway and Leitrim, resulting in seventy prosecution for cattle-driving. A good. num~ ber of convictions had already been obtained_ In some districts the constable On. dll‘ry' had been S¥l'ollgthollG'(‘. 1.))-' the presence of t‘ln’PQ soldiers in full fighting kit. Sectarian biflreruess, due to the recent riot in Lon(lo~lld‘3l'l‘}'. resulted in a number of raids on private -houses, in which“ furniture was smashed and t':mlilies turned into the stl‘e?§t. Both Unionists and Nzitioiralisits were con(térned.