IRISH HATRED.

Taranaki Daily News, 18 March 1922, Page 5

IRISH HATRED.

DIRECTED AT ENGLAND. IRRITATION CAMPAIGN. AN OPPORTUNE TIME. By Telegraph.—-Press Assn.-—Copyright. Received March 17, 7.30 p.m. London, March 17. The Irish Republican party is maintaining its propaganda campaign of vitriolic hatred against Britain. A handbill circulated throughout Ireland states: “England’s difficulty is Ireland’s opportunity. England is in difficulties everywhere. Her war debt is colossal, her unemployed number nearly two millions, her quondam allies hate her, India is seething with revolt, and Egypt is declaring ‘Egypt for the Egyptians’. England therefore wants peace with Ireland. Ireland wants peace with honor, and she will not swear allegiance to England’s King, and she will not tolerate a GoVernor-General. Now is the time to get our terms—when England is in difficulties.”

De Valera is Continuing an inflammatory campaign. At Dungarvan he declared that Ireland had not secured independence. The treaty barred the way to freedom and independence could only be secured by Irish bloodshed. Mr. Griffith has ordered the Minister for Defence to cancel the army convention summoned for March 26, because the conveners proposed to remove the army from the control of the Dail Eireann. BOMBS IN BELFAST. A TRAIN HELD UP. London, March 13. At the Tyrone assises four men concerned in the kidnapping at Derry were sentenced to five years’ imprisonment and 13 others to varying terms for carrying firearms.

Three bombs were thrown in Seaford Street, Belfast. One hurled into a yard where the military were did not explode. The others exploded in the street and one person was killed and seven injured and sent to hospital. A second bomb outrage occurred in the same district and injured three persons, one of whom is dyiqg. There has been a series of cowardly murders in Galway. Four masked men entered a private hospital and fired at three members of the Royal Irish Constabulary who were ill. Two were shot dead. A police official, lying in the general hospital, was also fatally shot by two masked intruders.

The Belfast train to Dublin was held up near Adavoyole. Armed men put the signal at danger, covered the train officials with revolvers, and took the registered letters. There was a similar hold-up on Tuesday.

THE IRISH TREATY. DEBATE IN HOUSE OF LORDS. London, March 16. The Lords read the Irish Bill a second time without a division. Lord Carson said the ConservativeUnionist Party had broken every pledge given to the Unionists in Ireland. It would be useless to throw out the Bill. Hie mischief had been done. He detailed the murder of four members of the Constabulary in hospital and demanded that the Government should at least make an effort to stop such outrages, which were a travesty on civilisation. Let them say to those to whom Ireland had been abandoned that, unless this is stopped, we will go no further. Lord Birkenhead said it was unfair to blame Messrs. Griffiths and Collins for recent outrages. One of thei„ difficulties was that their control of the military instrument was incomplete. The Republican members of Dail Eireann have formed a Republican Association. Mr. de Valera states that among the declared objects of the association are the securing of international recognition of the Republic, the removal of every vestige of foreign, authority or interference and the repudiation of the proposed agreement with Britain as humiliating to the nation.