IRELAND.

Press, Volume LVI, Issue 16841, 22 May 1920, Page 9

IRELAND.

RESTORATION OF LAW AND ORDER

GOVERNMENT'S POLICY. (By Cable—Press Association —Capyright.) (Australian and X.Z. Cab!e» Association.) (.Reutcr's Telegrams.; LONDON, May 19. Replying to Lord Salisbury in tho House of Lords, the Lord Chancellor emphatically declared that it was the policy of the Government, whether the struggle was short- or long, to employ the whole of the avai'.able resources of Great Britain to restore law and order in Ireland, and to render the secession- ! ary campaign now in progress utterly ■ impossible. The forces of Great Britain ; were as deeply committed to carrying J to success the Government's purpese in Ireland as they were to carrying out the Government's purpose in the late j war. If the troops now in Ireland were insufficient, more would be sent. The oplv limit wou'.d be the degree of the crisis. If tho existing military for-. mation was insufficient, the Government would not tt hesitate to ask the population of the country to increase tho forces, as it did in the crisis of the , war. | The new military policy is more and more evident in Ireland, where the cavalry is increasing'v active. Hussars: are patrolling the lii'ls outside Dublin, and others are at Wicklow. A navaL brigade lias arrived at Skibbereen, County Cork. Further military detachments are arriving daily in the southwest, and are occupying tho pslk-e barracks. 4 'PRESIDENT'S " MESSAGE. NEW YORK, May 20. Mr E. Do Valera, in a cable message to Mr Arthur Griffith, in Dublin, urges \ tho Irish Nationalists, particularly the women, to go to the polls at the elections next month to "expose the falsehood circulated by the British propagandists that the desire to uphold the i Irish republic is weakening." TROUBLE IN LIMERICK. (Received Mav 21st. 5.5 p.m.) LONDON, Mny 20. _ As a result cf disorders at Limeri' k at night time, police and military parties arr.yed, and some iiring oceu:rcd. A civilian was shot dead, while an old woman was shot in the ankle, and a girl wounded. WORKERS AND MUNITIONS. (United Scrvice.l (Received Mav 21st, 7.35 p.m.) LONDON, May 20. The English dockers and Irish transporters have agreed not to handle munitions intended for us© in Ireland.