RIGHTS OF THE SENATE.

Auckland Star, Issue LI, 24 May 1920, Page 5

RIGHTS OF THE SENATE.

AMERICAN ACTION.

(Received 11.30 a.m.)

WASHINGTON, May 23

The Secretary of State (Mr. Colby) has informed the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that it could take any action it saw fit concerning resolutions relating to the Irian questions. He pointed out that there were no diplomatic reasons why the committee could not formulate any attitude it chose.-r-(A. and N.Z. Cable.)

CHECKING CATTLE-DRIVING.

RIOTS IN LIMERICK,

LONDON, May 23

Mr. Denis Henry, Attorney-General for Ireland, describing the Government's military measures, said that the Chief Secretary had put cavalry in the cattledriving districts of Roscommon, Galway, and Leitrim, resulting in seventy prosecutions for cattle-driving. A good number of convictions had already been obtained. In some districts tho constable on duty had been strengthened by the presence of three soldiers in full fighting kit.

Early on Thursday morning twenty armed men attacked a> police patrol at Limerick. The police fired several vol-

leys, and a number of persons were wounded and a man was killed. Panic reigned in the city for an hour. The gang retired, but a number of attempts were made to pillage shops. One shop was set on fire. Shots were fired at fire-men-proceeding to the spot.

Sectarian bitterness, due to the recent riot in Londonderry, resulted in a numbe~ ?f raids on private houses. Furniture "was smashed,'and families turned into the street. Both Unionists and Nationalists were concerned. Most of the families attacked live in predominantly Unionist or Nationalist districts. In the House of Commons, Sir Edward Carson, in a speech regarding. Ireland, said that- there was ample evidence that the condition of affairs was all part of propaganda being carried on in Egypt and India. Tlie chief offices of the propaganda were in New York, and the directors of the campaign were not animated by any desire to help Ireland, hut from hatred of Britain. They were working to destroy the British Empire. Whether the campaign originated in Germany or not the greater part of the funds for the movement came from the United States.—(A. and N.Z. Cable.)