RULE FOR IRELAND.

Taranaki Daily News, 29 January 1921, Page 5

RULE FOR IRELAND.

PLEA FOR SELF-DETERMINATION. CATHOLIC CHURCH’S VIEW. By Telegraph.—Press Association Dunedin, Last Night. The following resolution was passed by the Roman Catholic Bishops and clergy of the dioceses assembled in Dunedin : “Whgreas the hierarchy of Ireland haye protested that the policy of friglftfulness under which civilians are ill-treated, flogged, and murdered, shops, creameries, and homes raided and looted, and young "women torn halfdressed from their homes in the middle of the night, has been connived at, encouraged, and apparently organised by the English Government, and whereas not only the friends of Ireland all over the world but also the Anglican Bishops, Tory Lords, English lawyers, statesmen, and pressmen have, in the name of Christianity, condemned this regime of in Ireland, we feel called upon to reiterate the declaration of Irish Bishops that not by inhuman aggression will the Irish question be settled, but by the recognition of the indeieasible right of Ireland, as of every other nation, to choose the form of government/under which its people are to live.”