IRISH AFFAIRS.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3566, 31 August 1920, Page 5

IRISH AFFAIRS.

RIOTING IN BELFAST. Receive! 9.10 a.m LONDON, Aug. 30. Rioting resumed in Belfast to-day. A man and woman were shot from a military armoured car.* A CARDINAL’S PROTEST. LONDON, Aug. 29. Cardinal Logue, in a letter condemning the attack on the police at’ Dundalk, in which one was killed and two dangerously wounded, says: "No end, however high, no plea however plausible, could, justify such an outrage. I know the po'or victim who has gone to eternity was a good and upright man, who never gave offence to anyone in the discharge of his duty. I shall be told it is an act cf war, an*’

that it is Tawful to shoot at sight anyone wearing a policeman’s uniI prefer to call it by its true name —a cool and deliberate murder. Anyone who plans, encourages, abets even sympathises with such acts, participated in the guilt before God. I am reminded by anonymous correspondents that there are worse faults on the Other side. I know there are. I denounce and condemn them most heartily. We are living under a harsh, oppressive, and tyrannical regime of militarism and brute force, which invites, stimulates, and nourishes crime, but crime does not excuse crime. We, must not do wrong because others do.’