IRISH AFFAIRS.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3517, 1 July 1920, Page 3

IRISH AFFAIRS.

LONDON, June 29. In the House of Commons, during the Home Rule Bill debate, Mr Lloyd George emphasised the point that in the present condition of mind there was so proposal acceptable to Britain *which would be' 1 acceptable to the Irish people. Nevertheless, he did not despair of improvement in the Irish opinion, but improvement would only come when it became clear to the Irish that the people of Britain would never cossent to extreme demands. When the Irish realised that no party in Britain • was ready to give Ireland more than the present Government was prepared to give he thought the practical good sense of tlPe Irish would reassert itself and* they would accept the present Bill. LONDON, June 92. A series of dastardly Sinn Fein outrages on girls is reported. Fifteen armed men at Tralee dragged girls out of bed at. midnight, and carried them into the road, where the girls were brutally assaulted. Their hair was then cut off, and tar poured over their heads. Similar outrages occurred in other places, but in these eases the tarring was omitted. LONDON, June 29. Lord French is reported to have left Belfast aboard a destroyer for an unknown destination. i Brigadier Lucas, who was captured by Sinn Feiners, has not been traced, , but he has written a letter saying he , is well treated and' deprecating troops i •looting in Fermoy. Sinn Fein volunteers are patrolling i the. streets of Fermoy. where troops are confined £»o barracks.