ANARCHY IN IRELAND.

Auckland Star, Volume LIII, Issue 300, 19 December 1922, Page 10

ANARCHY IN IRELAND.

(To the Editor. ) Sir, —I see that some rev. fathers say that the state of Ireland is very much exaggerated. Well, I have been all over the country only a -few weeks ago and from all I saw, heard and experienced, I can only say that the half has not been told of the murders, crimes and misery that the loyalists have to endure. Further, from all I did see and hear I am quite sure that neither the Free State" Unionists nor even England can protect them from the assassin and the murder gang. I read in the cables of the ''Auckland Star," September 5. 1922, Dr. Curley, R.C. Archbishop of Baltimore, preaching at Athlone, Ireland, said he was leaving Ireland horrified and stupefied with the picture she presented. Ireland had been described as a country from which the foreign foe had departed and where the Government was in Irish hands. Yet the ditches and hedges were* lined with young men waiting to murder their brothers. They were ruining their land and shaming their people. The R.C. Dean of Cork told me with his own lips that the priests had led them past the winning post and now they were out of hand, and that the priests had lost all control of them. He also said he had been in every revolution since he was a boy, and this was the worst. Now, Mr. Editor, which am I to believe, thos» prelates and my own eyes, or those passing priests ? —I am, etc.. J. H. HAXXAX.