IRELAND.

Taranaki Daily News, 16 October 1920, Page 5

IRELAND.

& POLICY: OF BESPAtfc MR. answers premier, 1} W«r»slu—Pr»ss lun.^opnlght. Received Oct. 15, 7.55 p.m, London, Oct. 14.. Mr. Asquith, addressing the Scottish Liberal Federation at Ayr, Btated that it was the meanest calumny to say that those like himself who denounced the present administration in Ireland were responsible for the existing anarchy. The administration of Ireland was unequalled in any civilised society. Notwithstanding his flippancies and brutalities, Mr. Lloyd George could not divert attention from this outstanding fact. The increased Tecord of crime by reprisals amounted to anarchy, and was a disgrace, not only to the Government and the head of the Government, but to the country as a whole. The Government's policy was a policy of despair. Mr. Asquith advocated Dominion Home .Rule in Ireland, with complete administrative and legislative independence in [local affairs and absolute financial i autonomy. Irishmen would not quit the Empire, because that would reduce Ireland to national insignificance. Mr Asquith, continuing, denied emphatically that the military and police reprisals were for outrages committed on them. Parliament should demand a thorough and impartial inquiry. They were not in any sense acts of defence, but aqts of blind and indiscriminate vengeance. There was no parallel to such a state of affairs, unless it was the jwork of the Germans in Belgium:—Aus. | and N.Z. Cable Assn.

ASQUITH CONDEMNED. "TRAITOR TO HIS COUNTEY." 1 Received Oct. 15, 8.30 p.m. London, Oct. 14. Sir Edward Carson, in a speech at tia Constitutional Club, said there would .be only two parties in the future — those who desired to maintain the existing constitution, and those who desired to subvert it. Mr. Asquith, at Ireland's most critical moment, was attempting to minimise the efforts towards a solution. There was no use in mincing words; the man who did that for party purposes was a traitor to his country.— Aus. and N.Z. Cable Asan.

SHOOTING IN DUBLIN. SOLDIERS FIRE ON CROWD. Received Oct. 15, 7.55 p.m. London, Oct. 14. An armored car stopped in Philsboro' Street, Dublin while an officer entered a bank, whereupon three men attacked the crew with revolvers, wounding a soldier. His comrades killed one assailant, and the others escaped. While the troops were seeking these, a crowd gathered, and the troops were obliged to fire, killing three and wounding thirty.—Au3. and N.Z. Cable Assn.