IRELAND

Taranaki Daily News, 7 April 1921, Page 5

IRELAND

MANNIX APPEARS AGAIN. NO HOPE OF EARLY PEACE. DEMAND FOR SELF-DETERMINATION By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyr.'gnt, Received April 6, 7.40 p.m. New York, April 5. The Chicago Nows’ Rome correspondent interviewed Archbishop Mannix, who said that so long as the Irish question remained unsettled there would never be real friendship between Britain and the United States. England, he said, may reach out hopefully to seek peace, but each attempt will be frustrated by the long hand of Ireland opposing every hope, every desire and every t plan relentlessly. *T see no hope for Ireland so long as England is governed by the men now in power,” he added. ‘'The Labor Party and a large part of the Liberals are favorable to us, but they cannot get a hearing, and I expect matters will take their course until they get so bad that they will solve themselves. The Irish ■will accept only one thing—namely, the acknowledgment of the right to decide their own destiny, and any arrangements to safeguard the Empire are possible once thie is admitted. The creation of two Parliaments will do nothing to ease the situation.” Archbishop Mannix added: “The majority of the people in the Dominions are favorable to Ireland, but their Governments are conservative. I, as a free man, claim the right to land anywhere •I please, but instead I could not even visit certain cities in- England?’ The correspondent asked whether the Vatican was contemplating intervention in the Irish situation, and Archbishop Mannix replied: “Not that I know of, but I may say this, that when the Pope received me a few days ago he offered to present a request to the British Government, through the ordinary diplomatic channels, that I be allowed to visit my family in Ireland. I refused the offer. ’Either I enter Ireland as a right, or I never enter.”—Ans. and N.Z. Cable Assn. PLEA FOR A TRUCE. THE VOICE OF THE CHURCH. Received April 6, 8.55 p.m. London, April 6. Several bishops and heads of the NonConformist Churches in England and Scotland have signed an appeal to the 'Premier and Sir Hamar Greenwood, protesting against indiscriminate reprisals in Ireland, and adding that they cannot regard the outrages which occasioned the reprisals policy as ordinary wanton criminality, but as the outcome of a sense of political grievance. They urge the Government to attempt to secure a truce, and adopt a policy of conciliation. —Aus. and N.Z. Cable Assn. VICTIM OF SINN FEIN VENDETTA. MYSTERY 01 MURDER CASE. London, April 5. The Ashford victim has been identified as Vincent Fovargue, a prominent Sinn Feiner, who has been on the run for some months. It is evident that his death was the outcome of a Sinn Fein vendetta. Received April 6, 7.40 p.m. London, April 6. Dublin is mystified over the shooting of Fovargue. Dublin Castle issued a communique on February 1 stating that a prisoner named Fovargue. while being conveyed in a military lorry for examthe lorry. Sinn Feiners discredit the ination, escaped during an attack on Dublin Castle story, and state that Fovargue is unknown in connection with the Republican >r any other movement Id Ireland.—Aus. and N.Z. Cable Assn. ATTEMPTED OUTRAGE FAILS. London. April 5. Sinn Feiners unsuccessfully attempted to blow up the line of water pipes from Lake Thirlmere, which supplies Manchester with water. A STACK-BURNER’S EXCUSE. London, April 5. An Irishman, charged at the Hertford Police Court with having set fire to a stack, stated when arrested, “You have set light to my country and I’ll do the same to yours.” His aged father had just been shot in Ireland.