THE SITUATION IN IRELAND.

Taranaki Daily News, 9 July 1920, Page 5

THE SITUATION IN IRELAND.

JURORS REFUSE TO APPEAR. ■ '; M JUDGE'S BITTER COMMENT. - ->■ By Telegraph-—Press Assn. -Copyright j Received Jury 8, 7.30 p.m. London, July f. ; j At the WaterforJ Assizes, Judge Gib-' son descanted ■ bitterly when nine juror,*,, appeared out of seventy-eight »um»j moned, because they had received notice threatening that their lives, women aud children would not be pro*] tected in future by the law. . . i "It makes my blood run cold," said": Judge Gibson. "It is horrible that §aj} Irishman Bhould be so weak. TW prisoners will remain in custody, i£gi the guilty go unpunished." '' ~<j The judge defined the jurors' dejauUfi as a crime against God and man,; audi fined each grand juror £IOO, «»ciat jurors £25„ and petty jurors £lO, fhart) were also a hundred petty jurors JBswJ, in the County Court. ■ 'k The Irish Times declares ftwftMJ Waterford fines mark the end of thfc beginning chapter in Irish history. • If states that jurors will have the ciolc* of facing the imposition of a large 'floe or the vengeance of organisation, wbfcs hits hard, hits surely, and keeps'tot whole province in servitude and fear. <j Freeman's Journal quotes Cox4lm| Loguo as stating that the Pope int& pathised with Ireland's national asjjmi tion, but he added that the clared they would never attain {font] through crime, bloodshed, or confutf! brought God's cure ,on them.—U#tes Service. ' "i