NEW PERIL.

Taranaki Daily News, 18 October 1920, Page 5

NEW PERIL.

IRISH MAY CAUSE WAR. ! BETWEEN BRITAIN AND AMERICA, By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright, Received Oct. 18, 12.45 a.m. London, Oct. 17. Mr. Winston Churchill (Secretary for War), speaking at Dundee, said it would be madness to put ourselves at the mercy of sucli terrorists as Da Yalera and his gang of murderers, "who we are assuredly going to break up absolutely and utterly." Tories and Liberals had fortunately joined together, making a full measure of Home Rule practically certain, "Were the north and south of Ireland left to fight out their own differences," added Mr. Churchill, "there would be most terrible civil war on an organised scale. Sympathy in Britain, in that case, would be developed in favor of Protestant Ulster. Influential persons in the United States would sympathise with the south, and while volunteers left Britain for Ulster, reinforcements would come from the United States for the south. This would create such tension that it would expose us to the greatest 4anger with which we could be confronted, namely, a quarrel between ourselves and the United States." "It will bo better to tolerate the present lamentable situation for two or three years more than to leavo Ireland to herself, thus opening the flood gates of organised war and later embroiling us with the United States," concluded Mr. Churchill.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.