IRISH AFFAIRS.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 3592, 2 October 1920, Page 7

IRISH AFFAIRS.

AIURDEE AND EEPEISALS. LONDON, Sep. 30. ;Sinn Feiners fired on a police patrol at O'Brien's Bridge, Limerick, killing two constables. Another patrol 'was. ambushed at TempleTnore, one constable being killed, one wounded, and one is missing. Armed masked men men raided two steamers berthed at Northwall, Dublin, and took away rifles, revolvers and ammunition. The following notices have been posted at Drogheda:— "Beware! if a policeman is shot liere, five Sinn Feiners will be shot. It is not coercion; it is an eye for an ■eye We are not drink maddened savages, we are not out for loot, we are not offensive to women, we are as hu•mane as other Christians; but we have j restrained ourselves too long. Are we to lie down while our comrades are being shot by (the ragamuffins of Ireland, We say never! and all the inquiries in the world will not stop our desire for revenge. Stop shooting the police, or we will lay low every one of those that siaelis of Sinn Fein. Remember Balbroggan!" AMERICAN SYMPATHIES. NEW YORK, Sept. 30. The police Were called to the Carnegie Hall to quell an anti-British demonstration by Irishwomen pickets ■bl youths, who forced their way into tercenenary celebrations of the Bug of the Pilgrims. PaudemonB reigned when the intruders broke

in, bearing banners inscribed "Hurrah for America; down with Britain.," .The singing of the British National Anthem prevented quietness b'ein;; r • stored wheja the Chairman orc'.-rf

th< J American National Anthem to b ,y sung The leader of the disturb-..> said their motive was to protc'it against the inveigling of American girls and boys into singing the British Anthem, and she charged the Gulgrave Institution with being a party to a plot to make the United States part of the B-itish Empire. American officers helped the police to eject the disturbers.

WASHINGTON, Sept. 30

Ex-Senator James Lewis, Democrat candidate for the Illinois Governorship, asks President Wilson to reqlest Britain to placate the Irish in Irelane! in order that the Irish in America may be placated. The Irish question is a domestic one for the United States. Lewis says: "Enough Irishmen went to the war to warrant us asking for a settlement, and Britain should consent to the appointment of delgates from America, Britain, and Ireland to .work out a solution, and should be willing to sacrifice distinctions of Government." In the second place, Lewis intends asking for a modification of the German peace treaty tp permit Germany to get coal for her ships and industries to enable hor to pay her obligations. ,