IRELAND.

Taranaki Daily News, 22 April 1918, Page 5

IRELAND.

MORE LAWLESSNESS.

CARSON URGES SUPPORT FOR SOLDIERS.

SINN FEINER W,INS /A SEAT.

Times Service. Received April 21, 5.5 p.m. /London. April 20. The Times' Dublin correspondent wires that the ironmongery shops in i Drogheda were raided anil large quanti- | ties of ammunition stolen. Masked ' men at Wexford held up a surveyor's j motor car and removed 250 pounds of | gelignite and other blasting material. I Sir E. Carson has sent a message to I the Belfast press in which he says: ''lt is our clear duly to support the gallant I soldier* at the front and resist any Home Rule Bill that is degrading to Ulster. Dr. Macartan, a Sinn Feiner, has been returned unopposed for Tullamorc.

SITUATION INCREASINGLY DANGEROUS.

A GREAT STORM BREAKING.

ORGANISING RESISTANCE TO CONSCRIPTION.

deceived April 21, 5.5 p.m. London, April 20. The situation in Ireland is becoming increasingly dangerous. Crime and lawlessness have temporarily simmered down, but there are indications of a great storm breaking. The fact that the church has taken over control and will throw its whole weight mto the struggle is regarded as being of great significance.

Slaynooth, Waterford and other theological colleges have disbanded, in order to concentrate on arrangements in connection with the anti-conscription pledge. Labor has declared a general holiday on Tuesday, to enable the workers to sign the pledge. Meetings of protest have been organised all over the country, and the prejudices of the people in southern Ireland, where the Sinn Feinism is highly organised, are fed by the wildest stories of the progress of the lighting. The Irish Catholic Hierarchy, after the Maynooth meeting, passed a resolution that the Irish people possess the right to resist conscription by all means consistent with God's will; also it ordered a pronouncement at every church on April 21 of the anti-conscription meetings at which a pledge would be taken to resist conscription by every means. The Dublin conference decided to prepare a statement of the Irish case against conscription for presentation to the world, and requested the Lord Mayor of Dublin to proceed to Washington and personally present the case to President Wilson.