IRISH RULE.

Taranaki Daily News, 11 October 1920, Page 5

IRISH RULE.

,"A HANDFUL OF ASSASSINS."j PREMIER'S FIGHTING SPEECH. jAYS IRISH HELPED GERMANS. Bj Telepasb.—Prm Assn.—Copyright. Received Oct. 10, 5.5 p.m. London, Oct. 9. Mr. Lloyd George delivered a speech it Carnarvon, where he had an enthusiastic reception. "The defence put forward for murd«r» and outrage* in Ireland," he said, "is that a state of war exists, the police being garrison of a foreign enemy; but Ireland cannot have a one-sided war. Is war you don't have one set of men standing up to be shot at and never Brtßf back. In war no soldier ever complains if the other side shoots baek. Are the police to allow themselves to be shot like dogs in the street without attempting to defend themselves? The police have endured for two or three y«art, in a way which is the highest testimony to their discipline and restraint, the murder of their comrades and attacks on their barracks. _ The patience of the police is now giving way; they .are beginning to hit back severely. Is it any wonder the police shot, the murderers of their comrades, (Then terrorism made it impossible to obtain evidence against the murderers?" "But order must be restored in Ireland," the Premier added. "However stern the methods, these murderous gangs must be broken up, and unless I an mistaken we shall do it. The Government must proceed with the Bill providing for self-government for Ireland. I protest against the doctrine that Ireland must be given more than _ Mr. Gladstone and Mr. Asquith gave it in their Home Rule Bills, not because Ireland 'Aoes not need more, but because crime has been successful, and because a gang of assassins is trying to bully us into giving more. If we give Ireland complete Dominion Home Rule, which Vr Asquith now advocate, it will mean that Ireland can have her own navy and army, can shut Irish ports against British ships, can organise her owb submarine bases, can introduce conscription and raise an army of half a million, led by Sinn Feiners who have rowed the destruction of Great Britain. "Ireland was engaged during the war assisting the German submarine campaign. Ireland stood at the gateway to Britain, and the Irish coast is now girdled with British wrecks. Are we to have Ireland as our enemy's submarine base in the next war? Was ever such lunacy propoeed by anybody? Britain is the greatest country that ever existed, and we will not risk its future—its destinies—because of the threats of any gang in Ireland. We saw the Great War through at gigantic coat, and we mi not going to quail at thejhreats of a handful of assassins." Toe Premier added that the Home Itule Bill would give Ireland every facility to manage her own domestic afiiaia.—Auf.-N.Z. Cable Assn.

BOMBS IN CORK. CASUALTIES in street attack. Received Oct. 9, 5.5 p.m. London, Oct. 8. Two Irish girls were awarded £2OO each owing to Sinn Feiners cutting off their hair. ' A military lorry conveying stores to Port Elixabeth was passing through a crowded street in Cork when a number of bomb* were thrown and shots fired. A bomb exploded on the lorry, and another beside it. One soldier was killed *nd four others dangerously wounded, whil* four civilians, including a girl, were also sent to. hospital. Two soldiers on the lorry, who were injured, opened Are on the attackers, who suffered one casualty, though all •vaded capture.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. Received Oct. 10, 5.5 p.m. London, Oct. 9. A party of uniformed men threw incendiary bombs into the Cork City Hall, but the fire brigade succeeded 'n confining the fire to the public health office, ft is believed the outrage was a reprisal for the murder of a soldier.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn..

KEEPING THE GATES. REYIBW BY VISCOUNT GREY} London, Oct. 8. Replying to criticism of the proposals for the Government of Ireland, particularly Mr. Asqnith's suggestions, Viscount Grey says: "There are in Ireland ports which, if effectively equipped, can laminate our communications with the greater part of the world. They are, in fact, gate* between tla and the outer rorld, the keytf of which must be held in tiondon, not in order to lock them, but to prevent their being locked against us. We cannot allow a submarine base to be MUttUhed in Ireland which is not under tb» 4?fttrol of the British Admiralty. "JUgarding British responsibility for jfet £p|negtic Government of Ireland, that MriSlT an< * politically is the failure of a IrOft. The way to fulfil our trust in Ireland is to wind up British management of purely Irish affairs as soon as ' ire can. It must be made clear that the itarting point of our policy is our conrifition of the incapacity of the British Parliament to manage purely Irish affairs and our determination to end this tragic failure. Within certain limits, frankly stated by us, Irishmen must arrange their own government. In no other iray can Nationalists and Ulstennen be Dade to realise that they must make conMfiions to each other.—Aue.-N.Z. Cable i«n. PROPOSED KING OF IRELAND. London, Oct. 7. At a meeting of the Irish Vigilance Society in London, a proposal was made j n> behalf of the Irish American section that Prince Albert should become King , pf Ireland, with the title of Patrick L It wu claimed that the granting of an frUh sovereignty under Prince Albert (rould mean that Ireland would remain to Integral part of the British Empire, tnd the right arm of Britain. ] The chairman stated ithat De Valera supported the proposal. Discussion was postponed pending the obtaining of views of certain leaders in Ireland.—United Service*. MILITARY LORRY BOMBED. London, Oct. 8. Lilians bombed a military lorry in BaiWk Street, Cork, killing one soldier nod dangerously injuring three. Two soldier! in the lorry fired on the attackers. The street was 101 l of people proceeding wM m***