IRELAND

Taranaki Daily News, 21 February 1921, Page 5

IRELAND

A SEARCH OF DUBLIN. LARGE AREA INVESTED. ALL BUSINESS SUSPENDED. B, Telejrapb.—Press Assn —CopyriCbL Received £gb. 19, 5.5 p.m. London, Feb. 18. A large area of North Dublin was invested to-day by several hundred soldiers, and no one was allowed to enter or leave. The investment covers an area five miles square, in the Mountjoy district, affecting 35,000 people. Troops, supported by tanks and armored cars with searchlights, closed the area by barbed wire entanglements and sand-bag defences, and a house-to-house search is in progress, which will probably last two days. Machine guns line the streets, and some are placed on roofs and some in windows.

All work and business is suspended. Trams are stopped, and only urgent food supplies are allowed through the cordon. The object of the investment Is to locate “wanted” men, who are believed to be hiding there. Hundreds of young men are being assembled in Mountjoy Square.—Aus. and N.Z. Cable Amu. RAID IN LIVERPOOL. IRISH EMIGRANTS BLOCKED. yfGKETS TO AMERICA CONFISCATED Received Feb. 20, 5.5 p.m. London, Feb. 19. Armed Sinn Feiners raided three * boarding houses in the Irish quarter of Liverpool during the night. They searched bedrooms and took tickets and passports from a dozen young Irishmen booked to sail for New York to-day. The rebels ordered the victims to return to Ireland immediately. They gained admittance by saying that they were police making inquiries. The action is considered a development of the scheme for the prevention of youths emigrating to America thus depleting the ranks ,of the Republican Army. The police search for suspects is hampered because no one will descriptions of the raiders, although the latter were not masked. Cunard Shipping Companv officials issued duplicate passports and*tickets, enabling some of the victims to sail to-day. while others are following bv the first boat. * The Evening Standard states that prominent London business men have received Sinn Fein threats against their property, and special guards have been posted.—Aus. and N.Z. Cable Assn.

THE GOVERNMENT’S POLICY. ATTACKED BY MR. ASQUITH. LIKENED TO RECKLESS GAMBLERS. Received Feb. 20, 5.5 p.m. London, Feb. 19. Mr. Asquith, speaking at St. Pancras, stated that the reparations arrangements sanctioned in Paris could not be carried into effect from a practical ViewReferring to the Government s refusal to publish General Strickland’s report on the Cork fires, Mr. Asquith said Irish property had been destroyed wholesale, and wholly innocent people had been killed and* the bodies mutilated. The Government, like reckless gamblers, had thrown on the table Britain’s good name, and the whole future and fortunes of Ireland. The Government, while setting up the League of Nations, was indulging in ugly and lawless violence, thinking that when order had been restored the cowed and subjugated Irish would gratefully accept the Home Rule Act.—Aus. and N-Z. Cable Assn.

INFLUENCE OF THE CHURCH. A RECENT APPEAL CONDEMNED. ’‘ROME’S DICTATION NOT ACCEPTABLE.” Received Feb. 19, 5.5 p.m. London, Feb. 17. Mr. Arthur O’Brien, writing to the newspapers on behalf of the Irish SelfDetermination League, says Archbishop Bourne’s recent letter has aroused the greatest indignation among Irish Catholics residing in England, who repudiate Archbishop Bourne’s right to use his ecclesiastical office to influence them politically, even in matters of faith and morals they prefer the Irish Hierarchy’s guidance. Mr O’Brien says Archbishop Bourne never protested against the English Government’s acts bf barbarism and repression in Ireland, and he says the archbishop is mistaken if he thinks his political lectures will assist British activities at the Vatican, which are aimed at obtaining Papal condemnation of Irish Republicanism. Archbishop Bourne and English Catholics should understand that the Irish people throughout the world will not accept Rome’s political {dictation. —Aus. and N.Z. Cable Assn. DISASTER AVERTED. RAILWAY LAKE. Received Feb. 19, 55 p.m. London, Feb. 18. An official communique states that the railway lines between Cashelnagore and Gweedore were diverted so as to lead snto a lake,, but the diversion was discovered be fire any disaster resulted. — jAijg, and N 35. Cable Assn.

CRIMES DECREASING. OPTIMISTIC OFFICIAL REPORT. Received Feb. 20, 55 p.m. London, Feb. 19. Six armed men invaded the Cork workhouse during the night and ordered an inmate named Michael Walsh to accompany them. Subsequently Walsh’s dead body was found outside, with a Republican Army’s warning: “Caught at last: traitors and informers beware.” Dublin Castle’s weekly report comments on the smaller successes attending the Republican criminal efforts, and predicts a considerable improvement in the situation, owing to the steady drain on the Republicans’ resources, the arrests of members and the seizure of material. — Aus. and N.Z. Gable Amp.