IRELAND.

Taranaki Daily News, 7 April 1922, Page 5

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THE ELECTION CAMPAIGN. VIEWS OF DIFFERENT PARTIES, I By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. London, April 4. A representative conference of the Nationalists of Fermanagh, held at Inniskillen, unanimously passed a resolution strongly objecting to the present operations in Northern Ireland approving the treaty and pledging support to Messrs. Griffiths and Collins in the election campaign. A subscription list in aid of the Free State election fund was started with several large amounts. A train from Londonderry w held up at Foxhall, Donegal, by mutineers from the Irish Republican Army. . A considerable quantity of goods consigned to west Donegal merchants was commandeered. The mutineers seized a Donegal man’s residence at Foxhall, established their headquarters . there, and removed the goods from the train there.

The executive of the Constitutional Anti-Partition League, at a meeting at Dublin, passed a resolution welcoming the agreement between the Northern and Southern Governments and protesting against crime and outrage. A large meeting of Limerick Protestants passed a resolution viewing with horror the persecution of any section of their countrymen on account of religious or political beliefs and hoping the differences would be composed, leading to a united Ireland. Representatives of the principal commercial firms in Cork, which are not Catholic, have made a statement recording their abhorrence of reprisals or violence in connection with religion. SINN FEIN PRISONERS. LAST BATCH RELEASED. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. Received April 6, 5.5 p.m. London, April 5. The last batch of Sinn Fein prisoners in England have been liberated, including Roche.