IRISH AFFAIRS.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 3635, 23 November 1920, Page 5

IRISH AFFAIRS.

I NOISY SCENE IN COMMONS. Received 10.20 a.m. > LONDON, Nov. 22. ■ In tlie House of Commons, Sir HamarGreenwood read details of the of thirteen officers, which deeply impressed the House. Mr. Lloyd George promised to ask the House for powers necessary to stop the campaign of murder. „ Mr. Devlin attempted to speak, but was pulled down by Major Molson, A noisy scene followed, and the Speaker suspended the sitting. Eeceived 2.17 p.m. LONDON, TTov. 22. In the House of Commons, after Sir Hamar Greenwood's detailed statement regarding the Dublin murders, wKeh made a deep impression on the erowued House, Mr. Devlin attempted to speak, but a member, angry and excited, shouted him down. Answering a private question, Mr. Lloyd George said he shared the general horror at these cold-blooded murders, but the 'Government was convinced, despite recent occurrences,-that the Irish authorities were gradually breaking up the gangs of assassins. If experience showed that' the Government's powers were insufficient, he would ask tho House for further pow-

Mr. Devlin, amid shouts of "sit down'", asked why nothing was -said about the appearance of military forces on the football field and the indiscriminate shooting, in which ten were killed. [■ This question was followed By renewed shouts-of "sit down". MANNIX ON MURDER. ipr'i ' -■■ . i , •* . LONDON, Nov. 21. Archbishop Mannix, in a speech at Bolton, stated that no outrages occurred in Ireland until troops "were sent. There was not any'murder gang he knew of, or, if one .existed, the i Sinn, Fein' alone were able to suppress it.