A GENERAL AND A BISHOP
CORRESPONDENCE PUBLISHED
(Received May 30, 2.30 p.m.)
LONDON, 29th May
The newspapers publish the letters between General Maxwell and Dr. O'Dwyer, Bishop of Limerick for thirty years, and described by Mr. Birrell as a very clever man and an enemy of the Nationalist Party.
Gen. Maxwell asked Bishop O'Dwyer to i-emove two priests from his diocese, on the ground that their presence was a menace to the peace a^id safety of the realm, adding : "If they had been laymen I would have arrested them."
Bishop O'Dwyer requested evidence to justify the proposed action, and Gen. Maxwell gave particulars' of the priests' opposing conscription and assisting tne Irish volunteers.
Bishop O'Dwyer, replying, denied that the evidence wan-anted any disciplinary action. The priests had not violated the, civil or. ecclesiastical law. The Bishop added that he regarded General Maxwell's action in shooting the Dublin rebels with horror. The deportations were an abuse of power as fatuous as it was arbitrary. "Your regime is one of the worst and blackest chapters in Irish government."
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Evening Post, Volume XCI, Issue 127, 30 May 1916, Page 8
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176A GENERAL AND A BISHOP Evening Post, Volume XCI, Issue 127, 30 May 1916, Page 8
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