IRELAND

Taranaki Daily News, 10 February 1921, Page 5

IRELAND

ULSTER’S PARLIAMENT PESSIMISTIC VIEWS. W® IT WILL DIE.” By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright, London, Feb. 8. The Times’ special correspondent in Ulster predicts that the Catholics will win 12 to 18 seats, but will abstain from attendance, hoping t 3 Parliament will die from inanition and ridicule. The immediate outstanding questions are liquor, which is mainly in the hands of Catholics. Many protectants are fiercely against liquor and will try to rush reforms through before Catholic support is brought in. The education question will be similarly tackled, though the correspondent hopes a compromise will be offered as an inducement to unity. Mr. Devlin’s position is problematical. He is the greatest personality in Ireland and certainly the only man capable of creating a party as an alternative to Sinn Fein, yet the leadership of Ulster Catholics has undoubtedly passed to the hierarchy, whose policy is not known. The independent Labor Party is negligible. Sir James Craig, speaking at Belfast, said the policy was not to put a paling round Ulster, but to bring the south and west into line with progressive Ireland NEW FORCES FORMED. COMPULSORY ENLISTMENT. Received Feb. 9, 8.10 p.m. London, Feb. 9. In pursuance of military orders all males between seventeen and fifty years in a number of towns and villages in west Cork, in the martial law area, have been required to form platoons and act as civil guards to prevent and give immediate notice of ambushes and intended attacks on Crown forces. The guards will be held responsible if attacks and ambushes occur. Males at Bantry, Glengariff, Kealkill, and other places have been mustered and enrolled. Those refusing to serve are arrested. —Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. FURTHER RAIDS. Dublin, Feb. 8. The authorities deny th'e shooting of Colling. A strong party rushed an armored car escorting a King’s messenger from Dublin Castle. Two of the attackers were wounded and arrested, the remainder escaping. A hundred armed masked men raided the Great Northern goods yards at Dublin after rounding up the staff. They cut the telephone wires and escaped.