IRISH CRISIS.

Taranaki Daily News, 31 August 1920, Page 5

IRISH CRISIS.

WAR ON POLICE. CARDINAL CONDEMNS MURDERS, By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright Received August 30, 8.35 p.m. London, August 29. Cardinal Logue, in a letter condemning the attack on police at Dundalk, in wWch one was killed and two were dangerously wounded, says: "No end however high, and no plea however plausible, could justify such an outrage I know the poor victim who has gone to eternity. He was a go.od upright man who never gave offence to anyone in the discharge of his duty. I will be told it is an act of war; that it is lawful to shoot at sight anyone wearing a policeman's uniform. I prefer to call it by the term of a cool and deliberate murder. Anyone who plans, encourages, abets, or even sympathises, with such acts participates in guilt before God. "I am reminded by anonymous correspondents that there are worse faults on the other side. I know there are, and I denounce and condemn them most heartily. We are living under a harsh, oppressive, and tyrannical regime of militarism and brute force, which invites, stimiii j. find nourishes crime, but crimo ; :>i. exciwp crime. We must not do .vug because others do."— Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. DISORDERS IN BELFAST. CASUALTIES IN RIOTING. Received August 30, S.li p.m. London, August 20. Rioting continued in Belfast last night. Six persons were shot dead and over fifty were wounded. Armored oars wore used for firing on the mobs.—Aus.N.Z. Cable Assn. Received August 30, 8.35 p.m. London, August 20. Two men wounded in the Belfast riots have succumbed in hospital.—Aus.-N.Z Cable Assn. McSWEENEY SINKING. WIDESPREAD INTEREST. London, August 20. Interest in MeSweeney's condition is widespread. It is reported that lie is sinking and cannot last more than two tiv three days. Many temperate appeals to release him hove been sent to the Government, besides intemperate ones. It is generally believed bis dc-alh will intensify Irish bitterness. A crowd outside the City Hall at Cork await the latest bulletins regarding the prisoner. Numerous masses are offered daily in many churches. Miss McSweeney found her brother rapidly sinking to-day, and declares lie may die at any moment. Great- pressure has been exerted on the Government, especially by a certain section of the Liberal press, for clemency to McSweeney. Other papers point out that while it is reassuring to find Ireland moved at the prospect of a man's death, the record of brutal murders in past weeks seem to indicate that Ireland is indifferent to the fate of victims. The Yorkshire Post points out to the Catholic Church that it is a sinister sign that suicide is being raised to a national cult. It cannot think that clergy's Sinn Fein sympathies will lead them to condone suicide or the use of organised suicide as a political weapon. —AuB.-N.2. Cable Assn. HIGHLANDERS RETALIATE. London, August 28. The Cameron Highlanders broke barracks and proceeded to avenge the death of a comrade,' wrecking the shops in the principal streets of Queenstown. The officers got the men in hand after considerable damage had been done. PROTEST STRIKE FAILS. New York, August 28. . The longshoremen's strike as a protest against England's treatment of McSweeney and Mannix failed to halt the sailings of the liners for England. Part of the strikers returned to work and the companies' office staff and passengers loaded the baggage.