JOURNALIST ORDERED TO QUIT.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3544, 4 August 1920, Page 5

JOURNALIST ORDERED TO QUIT.

A Canadian journalist \v‘rEl had been studying the Irish question on the spot, sending an account of his inlpressioné"* in long cables to American and Canadian journals, had personal experience nto iong ago of the ramifications of the Sinn Fein movement (states a Writer in London Truth.

One afternoon he handed in at the telegraph ofiice in a small Irish town a message in which, though Warmly advocating Dominion Home Rule. he ianimadverted on the “ailure of the Sinn Feiners to denotmce the cowardly murders of innocent policemen. Next morning he was waited upon at his hotel by two local Sinn Fein offi—ci:».ls_ who ordered him'/ to quife the town by the next tmin_ 5

All his renlonstrances ana prohessiruns of sylnpzithy with Erelnnd ‘-Ti-E6-’:‘,l vain. If he relnained_in the

town he would do so at his peril. There was no alternative «:~.\:ce::=t to obey. Shortly before the was due to depart. a group of _v«:-ung mm arrived at the hotel and solemnly es--rorted fhe journzi‘list to the :'ai‘.wa_v' sfation. In Ireland the secrecy sup-~ posed fo enshroud a telegram apparently violated without hesitation or remark.