IRISH AFFAIRS.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3502, 14 June 1920, Page 5

IRISH AFFAIRS.

DESTRUCTION OF PROPERTY IN IRELAND. Received 8.45 am. LONDON, June 12. It is officially stated that since January Ist claims for compensation for malicious destruction of property in Ireland totalled £2,218,000.

CAMPAIGN OF MURDER IN IRELANL.

STRAIGHT TALK BY CHURCHILL.

Received 11.40 a.m

LONDON, June 13,

Mr Winston Churchill, in an article in the ‘Sunday Herald on the Irish murder campaign, states no nation ever established its: title deeds by a campaign of assassination. The 81-iti» ish nation after coming grimly through the slaughter of Aramagaddon will not be scared by the squalid scenes enaéted in Ireland. She may be alienated/(irritated, and ultimately infuriated, but not terrorised. Two things the British nation will -never grant to the Irish appeal, Whether violent or contziliatoi-y." She will never concede an Independent Republic or forcibly compel Ulster ”to participate in a Dublin Parliamenf. -