RUINING IRELAND.

Auckland Star, Volume LIII, Issue 210, 5 September 1922, Page 5

RUINING IRELAND.

SHAMED BY THE REBELS. ARCHBISHOP'S INDICTMENT. HORRIFIED AND STUPEFIED. (By Calile.— Press Association.—Copj-riglit} (Received 1 p.m.) T/ONDON, September 5. Br. Curley, Catholic Archbishop of Baltimore, preaching at Athlone, said that h< , . was leaving Ireland horrified and stupefied -with the picture she presented. Ireland had been described as v. country from which the "foreign foe" had departed, and where the Government was in Irish liandf. Yet. the ditches and hedges were lined with young men waiting to murder their brothers. They were ruining their land and shaming their peopk , . — (A. and N.Z. Cable.) LABOUR PARTY'S DEMAND. IMMEDIATE PEACE STEPS. COMPROMISE WITH REBELS. LONDON. September 4. The Irish Labour party intends to press the Free State Government cither to prove that the revolt is crushed or to compromise with the rebels. Tbc majority of the Government favours continuing the war to an end. and are rvon disposed to introduce more drastic methods than those adopted by Mr. Collins, but it is doubtful if in view of the terrible economic conditions they can Tesist the Labour demand for peace, unemployment relief, and food for the devastated areas. (A. and N.Z. Cable.) DE VALERA REPORTED ILL. ißeceived - p.m.) LONDON. September I. The Cork "Examiner" reports thai Eamonii de Valcra is dangerously ill from pneumonia.— (A. and N.Z. Cubic.)