SINN FEIN RULES.

Taranaki Daily News, 27 September 1921, Page 5

SINN FEIN RULES.

GLIMPSE OF IRELAND. FEELING OF THE PEOPLE. GUT FOR INDEPENDENCE.” By Telefraph.—Press Assn —Copyrigtt. London, Sept. 25. Mr. Harold Espender, the Daily Chronicle’® speeial oorrMpondent towing Ireland, saw strange sights in villages along the Dublin Road. Moat of the little villages fly Sinn Fein flags. In one village men wearing Sinn Fein armlets were marshalled outside the courthouse, in which Sinn Feinera were trying cases. There ifi no party in the south that counts, except the Republican. The whole population i# out for independence from British rule, some peacefully, some violently. To judge from talks with many people by the wayside, all desire peace. It was hell, they * Mid, when speaking of the wrecked homes and missing friends. It was hell, the soldiers also say, telling of comrades foully murdered. Both sides desire peace, but always on their own terms. The two aides are absolutely apart. On one side the soldiers and police have absolutely nothing to do, and are already tired of the truce; on the other side the Irish people say the gulf of blood fixed between them will again flow more freely and more terribly unless civilian •tatesmen find a way out. Every man of clear judgment expects warfare more horrible and devastation more extensive if the struggle is renewed. PEACE WRECKERS WORKING. DESPERATE EFFORT FOR WAR. Dublin, Sept. 24. Reuter’s Dublin correspondent supplies a statement made by an independent authority poa&eesing the highest credential!, who has had opportunities of seeing Irish negotiations at close range. He declares that the peace wreckers are again silently working in a final desperate effort to renew the war, and, unless the British people and the world public see to it, they will succeed.