IRISH AFFAIRS.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 3622, 8 November 1920, Page 5

IRISH AFFAIRS.

MORE MURDERS AND REPRISALS. LONDON, Nov. 6. An unconfirmed report states that seventeen “ black and tans” were killed in the Ballinalee disturbance. An affray occurred at Edgeworthetown between Crown forces and volunteers, two of the former being killed and a number wounded. Reprisals followed, in Longford",'Several houses being burned.

Sinn Feiners attacked a coast guard station near Skibboreen. They killed a marine and wounded two dangerously. 1 ANOTHER SERIOUS FIGHT. J. SIX KILLED AND MANY WOUNDED. LONDON, Nov. 7. A number of armed civilians at Ardfert attacked the police and military proceeding from Tralee to disperse an assembly of armed civilians at the Causeway. The fire was returned and the aggressors dispersed. One report states that six were killed. Others state that many were wounded. Twenty were arrested. A girl named 0 ’Connor was killed. Of the two civilians arrested, one was in possession of a loaded German pistol and ammunition. The Crown forces sustained no casualties. The assembly at the Causeway was dispersed after a short conflict.

INDIAN UNREST. GHANDI’S PROPAGANDA. Received 10.20 a.m. DELHI, Nov. 7. The Government of India has issued a definition of its attitude towards Gandhi’s non-co-operation movement, declaring it non-constitutional, as its object is the paralysis and subversion of the existing Administration. The Government refrained from taken action, firstly because of its reluctance to iuterfere with the liberty of speech and newspapers at a time when India .was on the eve of IT great advance towards the ‘realisation of responsible Government; secondly, because of its reluctance to make martyrs of individuals, some of whom may be honest In their convictions; thirdly, because it trusts that the commonsense of India will reject the suggested non-co-operation as visionary and chimerical, leading only to chaos and loss of benefits attained by years of orderly progress. The manifesto refers to the fact that the movement has failed so far as the educated classes are concerned, but; non-co-operators are now appealing to the immature students and illiterate masses. It adds a warning that a continuance of the Government’s present policy of non-interfer-ence depends upon the success of moderate citizens in keeping the non-co-operation movement within reasonable bounds.