AN IRISH APPEAL.

Auckland Star, Volume LII, Issue 25, 29 January 1921, Page 10

AN IRISH APPEAL.

TO HEW ZEALAND DAIRYMEN. BRITISH GOVERNMENT'S MESSAGE. (By Tclegrapn.—Press Association.) •WELLINGTON, Friday. A paragraph appeared in the papers some time ago to the effect that the dairy companies in New Zealand had received an appeal from Ireland for financial support, stated the Prime Minister to-day. With reference to that appeal the Imperial Government, had sent out the following cablegram: — "The appeal made by the Irish Agricultural Organisation Society, Dublin, to the co-operative dairy companies in New .Zealand for moral and financial support is calculated to hinder the British Government in its fixed determinatiQn to stamp out murder, and is wholly superfluous and uncalled for. Some of the ereamejy managers, however, are Sinn Feiners, and some creameries have been used as the rendezvous of the Irish republican army. The owners of the creameries which have been maliciously destroyed or damaged can, and do, apply for compensation to the County Courts, and these Courts assess the damage which is then payable from the local rates. When there is delay in securing payment from the local authorities, the (lovernTnent has made it known that it is prepared to consider sympathetically any case of hardship resulting from such delay. The total number of co-opera-tive "creameries in Ireland is 710, but of this number only 19 have boon destroyed and 24 damaged, seven of which are now believed to be again carrying on business."

IRELAND'S RIGHT. (Dy T.Meeraph.—Tr»ss Association) DUNEDIN, Friday. The following resolution was passed by the Roman Olholife bishop and clergy of the diocese assembled in Uunedin to-day:—"Whereas the hierarchy of Ireland has protested that the policy of frightfulness under whicn civilians are ill-treated, flogged and murdered, shops, creameries and homes raided and looted, and young women torn, half-dressed, from their homes in the middle of the night, has 'been connived at. encouraged, and apparently organised by the English Government, and whereas not only the friends of Ireland all over the world, but also Anglican bishops, Tory lords, English lawyers, statesmen and pressmen have, in the name of Christianity, condemned this regime of terror in Ireland, we feel called upon to reiterate the declaration of the Irish bishops that not by inhuman aggression will the Irish question be settled, but by the recognition of the indefeasible right of Ireland, as of every othor nation, to choose the form of government under which its people are to live."