IRISH TURMOIL.

Taranaki Daily News, 29 May 1922, Page 5

IRISH TURMOIL.

ORDEAL IN BELFAST. MURDER AND ARSON. THE LATEST CRIMES, By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. London, May 26. There were four simultaneous fires at Belfast last, night. The mob severely beat a man who was crossing Albert Bridge and flung him into the river, alledging that he was a gunman. His body has been recovered. Received May 28, 5.5 p.m. London, May 27. Gunmen continue the campaign of murder in Belfast. A Protestant youth (a prominent footballer) was shot dead while returning from work. The area adjacent to South Strand was the scene of very fierce fighting several being killed. A special constable was afterwards ambushed and shot dead. When Crown armored cars attempted to operate in the Republican quarter of West Belfast they were obstructed by barricades composed of road stone, sets of which had been piled up by civilian residents overnight. An armed gang attacked the steamer Tory Island as she was about to leave Dundalk. They locked up the captain in his cabin, smashed the compasses, and wrecked the engines. The vessel was completely disabled and she was unable to sail. Two British soldiers drove up to a post office in Dublin in a motor-cycle and side-car; they entered the office, transacted business, and were about to leave when two men seized and shot them. One was killed. A father and son who served in the “black and tans” were shot dead at Cooteha.ll. The arson campaign continues in, Belfast, where three factories were extensively damaged. The fire brigade was called out twenty-one times in twentyfour hours. ATTACK BEATEN OFF. A STATUE REMOVED London, May 25. A large force of Sinn Feiners attacked Ballywalter Park, Lord Dunleath’s seat in County Down, but the police after a determined fight beat off the raiders. The statue of Lord Dunkellin erected in Eyres Square, Galway, was pulled down, dragged through the streets, and thrown into the water. One of those concerned declared that they intended to demolish every symbol of landlord tyranny.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. IRISH OR THE JEWS. WHO SHOULD BRITAIN HELP? LORD CARSON’S APPEAL. Received May 28, 11.55 p.m. London, May 28. Lord Carson, in an article m tne Sunday Express entitled “Ireland and Palestine,” pleads for the loyalists in the south and west of Ireland. He says: “It is as a humanitarian that I venture to utter a humble plea for those still living and still breathing, Irish loyalists who are still clinging to the hope that they will be succoured by the great Empire which in the past has been sustained, and which in the present ought not to be embarrassed, by their unbroken and unbreakable allegiance. Their only safety is in flight, and they number some three hundred thousand women and children.

“The thin voice of parsimony may tremble at the prospect of a redemption that can only be wrought by the expenditure of money, but in this case it is the price of honor. Ido not know whether the deliverance of these Irish loyalists can be purchased for ten, twenty or fifty millions. It is not a matter for cheeseparing calculations or a miserly bargaining; it is a public debt. It may be said that England’s burdens are too heavy, that her people are taxed beyond the limit of endurance, and that she cannot afford to pay her Irish debt of honor. The retort of the Irish loyalists is blunt and bitter.

“It says: ‘You can afford to spend millions on Jews in Palestine; your pity overflows in rivers of gold for alien Jews, you subsidise a Jewisn State in Palestine, you foster and protect these Jews at vast expense, you send "your soldiers to uphold their rule over Arabs and you guarantee their safety and security. Why, we humbly ask? Is the alien Jew dearer to you than the Irish loyalist? Why do you take the bread of your own children and cast it unto strangers? The millions you are wasting on the Jews in Palestine would save our lives. Must we die that aliens may live ?’ ” —Aus.N.Z. Cable Assn. THE LONDON CONFERENCE. ADJOURNMENT TILL TO-DAY. Received May 28, 5.5 p.m. London, May 26. The conference of signatories to the Irish treaty will hold informal conversations at the Colonial Office pending Mr. Collins’ arrival to-morrow. Received May 28, n.o p.m. London, May 27. The conference of the British and Irish signatories to the Irish Free State Treaty met at Downing Street, Mr. Lloyd" George presiding, to discuss the effect of the Collins-de Valera agreement on the treaty, and adjourned until Monday. It is understood the British Ministers are satisfied there is a sincere desire on the part of Mr. Griffith and Mr. Collins to adhere to the treaty, but a divergence of opinion exists as to the legal interpretation of the terms of the Collins-de Valera agreement regarding the elections as affecting the treaty.— Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.