IRELAND.

Taranaki Daily News, 19 December 1919, Page 5

IRELAND.

A CAMPAIGN OF 1 POWER OF THE SINN FEINEESJ . 8* Telegraph —P;«M Attn.—OopyrigiiL ' ' London, Dm. 16. I Strife in Ireland is reaching a ctd-t < minaAing point, English and American newspapers have sent special cortemondents. The gravest violence worn not! surprise the British public. A feeling if! horror is raised by the latest tions of the Sinn Fein vendetta. ' The special correspondent of The J Times states that this ii relentleiilyjrofrsued not merely against the police <i>dt against everyone who acta aa Jttdge or < gives evidence againßt Sinn Feiaers. He instanced a woman 4nAdair,Coun6p! Limerick, who, because she milked cows/ during a strike, was dragged from bm. and pulled with a rope along TOadJ kicked, beaten and left for dead. ftW screamed for assistance at a farmer's! door, but none dated stir. '■ ' ■

Sinn Fein has more terror and nosfl' power over the country than the Cw-i ernment; the result is the terrible epeetaele of a country on strike againit tips ( Government. The police an compelled! to move in parties of at least thiie, and sometimes four or five poUcwten ar» doing a beat; alone a policeman would not last a night. Hundred* of polio* barracks have been closed in order t» concentrate the men for their protectiott. The re-opening of the bairapk* is urgently demanded bv the local people for t&fc* protection of toe community, rot tills it' only possible by the use of goi&en. General Shaw refuses' to dispertt troops in small parties. He has a laifel army so disposed as to deal quickly Brit' drastically with any open outbreak with* { out heavy casualties amongst the trodbfc ; The Irish Unionists appeal for the cess** : tion of repressive measures, especially tbt 1 prohibition of fairs and markata, but' a vicious circle operates, 6vwr ittr crease of violence leading to a further display of QovermUtot strength.

The Time# «ays tie Government is Jaily driven to use more force be«Mj« it cannot get support from thectawtfinity; it is, pushed, into sheer ibnudtttl* of repression in order to eottbftt the claim which impeaches its authprity. Every policeman carries hia life ia Us , hand, and many are known ta hj» . by a secret, violent garig wfcfch, faMtod as & military force, dogs their iMfmi. waiting always until it gets ' alone, when it shoots from so elotetiist in many cases the clothing is The authorities were surprised <s4*7 by the publication of freezte** Jown»l evening newspaper, the taMtah. A special edition of the Journal <lnnounced that the proprietors wetj the legality of the suppression And »p----pealed to all newspapers to sifetat against the outrage.*-United" Sar?s»,