IRISH SITUATION

Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 126, 21 February 1921, Page 5

IRISH SITUATION

CONSIDERABLE IMPROVEMENT PREDICTED

REPUBLICAN RESOURCES BEING DEPLETED By Telegraph—Press Association-Copyright. (Rec. February 20, 5.5 p.m.) London, February 19Dublin Castel’s weekly report comment on the scalier successes attending the republican criminal efforts, and predicts a considerable improvement in the situation owing to the steady drain on the republicans’ resources, tho arrests of members and the seizure of material.— Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. SCHEME TO PREVENT EMIGRATION YOUNG IRISHMEN’S TICKETS AND PASSPORTS STOLEN. (Rec. February 20, 5.5 p.m.) . London, February 19. Armed Sinn Feiners raided three boardinghouses in tho Irish quarter of Liverpool during the night, searched the bedrooms, and took the tickets and passports from a dozen young Irishmen booked to sail for Now York to-day. Tho rebels ordered the victims to return to Ireland immediately. They gained admittance by saying they were police making inquiries. The action is considered to be the development of a scheme for preventing youths’ emigration to America, thus depleting the ranks of the republican array. The police search for suspects is hampered because no one will give descriptions of the raiders, although the latter were not masked. The Cunard officials issued duplicate passports and 'tickets, enabling some of the victims to sail to-day. Others will follow by the first boat. —Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. CARDINAL BOURNE’S PASTORAL INDIGNATION EXPRESSED AT ITS TERMS. (Rec. February 19, 5.5 p.m.) London, February 17. Arthur O’Brien, of the Irish Self-De-termination League, writing to the newspapers, says: —"Cardinal Bourne’s letter has aroused the greatest indignation among Irish Catholics residing in England, who repudiate Cardinal Bourne’s right to use his ecclesiastical office to inllucnce them politically. Even in matters of faith and morals they prefer the Irish hierarchy’s guidance. Cardinal Bourno never protested against the English Government's acts of barbarism and repression in Ireland, and he is mistaken if he thinks his political lectures assist. British activities at th© Vatican are aimed at obtaining Papal condemnation of Irish Republicanism. Cardinal Bourne and. the English Catholics should understand that Irish people throughout tho world will not accept Rome’s political dictation.”—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.

[Cardinal Bourne’s pastoral drew attention to the "tragedy of Ireland, which grows more acute. Horror and outrage in aggression and repression aro reported daily. I have grave reason to believe that some of my own ilock, impelled by a legitimate love of country and an urgent longing for the realisation of lawful aspirations, are allowing themselves to become implicated in societies which are in opposition to the laws of God. 1 he Roman Catholic Church is in similar danger as arose in London in 1867, when Cardinal Manning, burning' with a con- ’ stant love for Ireland, uttered a needed warning. I make that warning my own to-day. The name of Fenianism is no lon"cr used, but the activity it connoted is still alive. Cardinal Manning’s denunciation applies in unchanging measure to that activity by whatever name it is called. It may bo known unerringly by its principles, teachings, and fruits. I desire Cardinal Manning’s words to bo used continually for safeguarding the flock and the guidance of the clergy in the direction of individual consciences. J CHARGES AGAINST CROWN FORCES ST ITEMENT BY ARCHBISHOP . CLUNE. (Rcc. February 21, 1.5 a.m.) Perth, February 20. Archbishop Clune, speaking at a welcome, said every peiTetrated in Belgium by Germany had been bv the Crown forces in Ireland. He added that he subscribed to every word o every charge brought by do Aalei. against the Crown forces.-Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. THE CORK FIRES HEARING OF CLAIMS FOR COMPENSATION. London, February 18. The hearing has been commenced of the first of 602 claims for compensation arising out of the burnings in york on December 11. The owners ot the Munster Arcade are claiming .£405,000, and aro calling witnesses to show that Crown forces were responsible.—Aus.-A.Zi. Lame Assn. (Rec. February 20, 5.5 p.m.) London, February 18. The Cork sessions awarded Robert Ferguson and, Company A’213,000 for the destruction of drapery during the cork fires—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. GOVERNMENT CONDEMNED BY MR. ASQUITH. (Rec. February 20, 5.5 p.m.) London, February 19. Referring to the Government’s refusal to publish General Strickland’s report, Mr. Asquith said Irish prosperity had been destroyed wholesale, wholly in nocent people killed, and their bodies niutilated. Tho Government, like reckless gamblers, had thrown on the table Britain’s good name, and the whole, futuie and fortunes of Ireland. The Government, while' setting up. the League of Nations, was indulging in ugly, lawless violence, thinking that when order hod been restored, tho cowed ami subjugated Irish would gratefully accept the Home Rule Act.- —Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. TROOPS INVEST NORTH DUBLIN . SEARCH FOR "WANTEDS.” (Rec. February 19, 5.5 p.m.) London, February 18. A large area of North Dublin was invested to-day 'by several hundred soldiers. No one was allowed to enter or leave. The investment covers an area of five miles square, of the Mountjoy district, affecting 35,000 people. Troops, supported by tanks and armoured cars, and searchlights closed the area by barbed-wire entanglements and sandbag defences. A house-to-house search is proceeding, and will probably last two days. Ma-chine-guns line the streets, some being placed on the roofs and some at windows. All work and business is suspended, trams are stopped, and only urgent food supplies are allowed through the cordon. The object of the investment is to locate "wanteds” believed io be in hiding. Hundreds of young men are.being assembled in Mountfoy Square.—Aus.N.Z. Cable Assn. CONFLICTS BETWEEN”MILITARY AND ARMED CIVILIANS London, February 18. A military patrol encountered armed civilians at Kilbritain. Shots were exchanged, and four civilians wore killed. All wero armed with service rifles. There were no military casualties, and a ,

search in the vicinity revealed a large quantity of ammunition. Civilians fired on a patrol in a town in Monaghan. A search resulted in the capture of nine armed civilians and a quantity of ammunition. Mrs. Lindsay, a widow and a landowner at Coachford, and her chauffeur, were kidnapped by an armed party.

The bodies of five civilians wero found in a field near Bandon. The military searched houses in the vicinity, and shots wero heard. —Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. WORKHOUSE INMATE MURDERED. (Reo. February 20, 5.5 p.m.) London, February 19. Six armed men invaded the Cork Workhouse during the night, and ordered an inmate named Michael Walsh in accompany them. Subsequently Walsh’s dead body was found outside, with the Republican army’s warning: "Caught at last. Traitors and informers, beware.” —Aus.-N.'?. Cable Assn. MAN DONE TO DEATH IN A TRAIN. (Rec. February 20, 11.5 p.m.) London, February 19. A well-dressed man was discovered in a locked compartment of an empty train near Willesden. this afternoon. He died later. He was a passenger on an Irish mail train which reached Paddington this morning. The police found a slip of paper ’bearing the words: “Shadowed from Ireland.”—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. SHOT BY CURFEW PATROL. (Rec. February 20, 11.5 p.m.) London, February 19. Bettie Bray, the daughter of an Excise official, who was recently shot by a curfew patrol in Belfast, has died.—Aus.N.Z. Cable Assn. THREATS AGAINST LONDON PROPERTIES (Rec. February 20, 5.5 p.m.) London, February 19. The “Evening Standard" states that prominent London business men have received Sinn Fein threats against their property. Special guards have been post-ed.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. ARSON AND CONSPIRACY ATTACKERS ON VACUUM OIL WORKS SENTENCED. (Rec. February 20, 5.5 p.m.) London, February 18. At the trial at Wandsworth accused O’Sullivan admitted that he went into the Vacuum oil works for the purpose of setting them on fire. He denied that he fired on the police with intent to injure them. He aimed high and wide. Tho object of the outrage was to bring homo to tho English the seriousness of what was happening in Ireland. Moran, Kenny, and other defendants made similar admissions, and said they took revolvers to hold up the? night-watchman, but had strict orders not to kill or wound. The prisoners were acquitted on tho charge of attempted murder, but wero found guilty of arson and conspiracy. O’Sullivan and Moran were sentenced to eight years’ and Kenny to four years.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. THE SOUTHERNPARLIAMENT UNIONISTS WILL HOLD ALOOF. London, February 18. 'Phe executive of the Irish Unionist Alliance has issued a statement that Southern Unionists will bo obliged to hold aloof from the Southern Parliament, which must necessarily he a separatist one, or it| will be powerless. The only alternative for Southern Ireland is independence or the maintenance of legislative union.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. ANOTHER SINN FEIN M.P. ARRESTED (Rec. February 20, 11.5 p.m.) London, February 19. P. Colivet, Sinn Fein member of the House, of Commons for Limerick city, has been arrested. —Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.