FURTHER TROUBLE FEARED.

Taranaki Daily News, 14 April 1920, Page 5

FURTHER TROUBLE FEARED.

Received April 14, 1-2.45 a.m. London, April 13. The position in Dublin is growing worse. The Government absolutely refuses to release the hunger strikers, and the Nationalists are almost fanatically excited. A Justice of the Peace visiting Mount Joy was so alarmed at the prisoners' condition that he rang up the Vlce-Begal Lodge and assured Lord French's aide-de-camp that immediate action was necessary. He did not receive a reply. Later the private secretary informed the town clerk, is response to the previous request, that Lord French refused to see the Lord Mayor and the High Sheriff to discuss the prisoners. The Dublin Corporation adjourned for a week as a protest. Archbishop Walsh greatly fears the result will excite public opinion. "If the prisoners die," he says, "we shall be faced with the near prospect of an appalling calamity." The Times' correspondent considers it is a characteristic misfortune of Irish politics that a crisis has arisen at the commencement of Sir Hamar Greenwood's and Sir JTevil Macßeady's regime. The country is already bitterly aflame.—-Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.