DEPARTURE FOR LONDON.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume XLI, Issue 9290, 11 August 1920, Page 5

DEPARTURE FOR LONDON.

THE. VISITOR INTERVIEWED

(Per Press Association Copyright.) •.■"*• LONDON, August 10. '„ Archbishop Mannix left Plymouth, at • jnidnight for London. There were many bonfires at Dublin to celebrate Dr.'Mannix's return.

;lt is believed that Dr. 'Mannix will ® jfind a means of visiting Ireland, des- ' :,jpite the veto. "Interviewed at Plymouth, <he said he -thought the Government were making the position worse ■ for themselves. "They .were not putting him to the slightest inconvenience but were makahg themselves very silly: He added: , \*ll- was not going to Ireland to tell ; Irishmen my views. They have made .'.up their own minds." ! ..^.lnterviewed at Penzance, Dr. Man'nix said the destroyer intended to conyey him to Fishguard, but a wireless ' message, received en: route altered his .destinatiph, "as..there was some objeo- . .tioh to Fishguard. He had no fault to " find .with the manner in which the orders were carried out. The eomman-

. vdei* of the, destroyer Wyvern showed v^Mio great- court/esy, and did everything "to make his iiiybluntary cruise com : .. .fbrtable. Dr.,.Mannix. added he' had no' . iiiission in England, but wanted to go . ;tb Ireland. A\ :. In. reply to a question as to what ob- . iject. hei had 'A in visiting Ireland , he ' :-—-''l am a,\ native of Ireland. 'It is my home, I .have" -been absent sevett years. It is time I returned." The .Self-Determination League's ad--dress to Dr. Mannix says:—"We gladly join our brethrezi in Australia and ■ America in honouring one whose name will hold a foremost place in the record of illustrious priests and prelates who rise in dark and evil days to right their native land." Another address extends warmest greetings to Dr. Mannix on'landing on a hostile shore. The students of Maynooth College, while protesting against the Government's methods, welcomed them as a proof of the value of Dr. Mnnnix's services to Ireland and the cause of Democracy in '^Australia. i -