IRISH AFFAIRS.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3519, 5 July 1920, Page 5

IRISH AFFAIRS.

SPEECH BY ARCHBISHOP MANNIX.

NEW YORK, July 3,

Archbishop Mannix, speaking in Chicago, said; —Australia and the United States have one great thing in common, namely, the Asiatic menace. It is always lurking near, and Australia looks to the United States for support and friendship in the crisis. Australia and the United States have a friendship that was everlastingly cemented by the brotherhood of Australian and American soldiers in France. lam delighted to find here great’'sympathy for the Irish cause. It is the same in Australia, and with such great sympathy, and so much of the rest of the world enlisted on Ireland’s side, it is hard to believe England can stand very long against the independence of Ireland, no matter how great an economic loss such independence may mean. LONDON, July 4.

There are persistent .rumours that Orangemen are preparing reprisals on 12th July for the Sinn Fein outrages. Several Ulster members of the House of Commons have gone to Ireland with a view to exerting their influence to prevent disorder. The Government is taking precautions, especially in Belfast and Derry. DOMINION PARLIAMENT FOR IRELAND. " LORDS THROW OUT THE BILL. LONDON, July 3, The House of Lords rejected, without division, a Bill introduced by Lord Monteagle proposing a Parliament on Dominion, lines for Ireland. The division was reached after a speech by Lord Birkenhead, who declared that the Bill abrogated the supremacy of the Imperial Parliament.

Mr Bouar Law intimated that it was most probable the 'Home Rule Bill would not be proceeded with till the autumn session.

A party lying in ambush attacked a sergeant and throe constables at Ball inure, near Cashel, in County Tipperary. They shot the sergeant dead, and seriously wounded a constable.

TRAIN HELD UP.

Received 10.5,

LONDON, July .

The Irish Times describes how three thousand gallons of petrol intended for the military at Galway were loaded into a goods train, which was held np at Mullingar by masked men, who ran the waggons into a. siding and emptied (he contents on the ground.

The Time s is asking why was valuable munitions of war sent- without protection through a hostile region, where guerillas are working with remarkable audacity and infinite resource. The paper comments that obviously the British army has not yet succeeded in accommodating itself to the unprecedented bewildering state of a ll'a i rs. demonstration against lord FRENCH. Received 10.5 a.m. LONDON, July I. After interviewing anfl dining with Admiral Tuppor at Queenstown, Lord French when Returning aboard the destroyer Vampire was followed to the naval pier by large crowds shouting and hooting. Armed Cameronians guarded him.