IRELAND.
Nk'T-V AND FURIOUS AGITATION FOR SELF-GOVERNMENT. London, March 12. The Dublin correspondent of the Daily Mail says that the present position in Ireland calls for the immediate establishment of some effective system of «eif-government. The situation has steadily been growing worso since the armistice. Rebellion is the only talk heard. The release of the interned. Sinn Feiners has inflamed popular passion and has become the starting point for a new and furious agitation for the release of more serious offender s . The whole country is industrially stagnant. Everywhere there is labor unrest, threatening further big strikes with demands which no employers can concede-
Another session of the Republican Parliament is pending at which the released members will be present and this is likely to cause serious trouble for the British authorities. —L T nited Service.
ESCAPE FROM PRISON. Received March If). 1.10 a.m. London, March IS. Barton, a Sinn Fein member of the House of Commons, escaped from Mountjoy prison, where he was awaiting trial for a speech at Wicklow. He left a dummy figure in his bed.—Aus. N.Z. Cable Assoc.
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Taranaki Daily News, 19 March 1919, Page 5
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