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Taranaki Daily News, 16 April 1921, Page 11

Describing the state of Southern Ireland to-day, Sir Andrew Armstrong, of King’s County, Ireland, who arrived by the Shropshire on Saturday, declares that the Sinn Fein movement is not a religious movement at all; it is purely political. Apart from the politica' trouble, he said, Ireland was never mon prosperous than to-day. There was in enormous amount of money on deposit in the banks—farmers did not know what to do with their money, but woukl willingly pay exceptionally high prices for land. Emigration, stopped for six years, was commencing again. Politically, things were in a worse mess than ever before, and the ( whole of the southwest was under martial law—practically a state of war—with a large army of occupation. It was a matter of common knowledge that a number of Irish-Ame-rican gunmen had been prominent among the murder gangs and a good deal of evil was done by desperadoes, masquerading under .the name of Sinn Fein. Much of the terrible crime attributed to Sinn £ein could not justly be set to the change of that movement.