“TRAGEDY OF ERRORS”

New Zealand Tablet, 31 March 1921, Page 26

“TRAGEDY OF ERRORS”

We ,desire to call our readers’ attention to the powerful article, “ Tragedy of Errors,” by . J. L. Hammond, taken from the Irish Supplement of the Aat ion,” which appears in our columns this week. This is the most consecutive, logical, and forceful article which we have read on the history of England’s dealings with her sister nation — lreland —during the last seven years— since John Redmond made his famous declaration in the House of Commons: “I say to the Government that they may to-morrow withdraw every one of their troops from Ireland. Ireland will be defended by her armed troops from invasion, and for that purpose the armed Catholics of the South will be only too glad to join arms with the armed Protestant Ulstermen ’ — to the latest farce in the long tragedy of blunders, the bastard Home Rule Bill, devised to divide the Irish nation into two. We strongly recommend our readers to keep this copy of the Tablet by them and to read it again and again, and read it to their fLends, especially to those who say ‘‘lreland is governed by the same laws as England and therefore Irishmen have no grievance,” or that “all the recent troubles in Ireland lie at the door of Sinn Fein.”