THE STATE OF IRELAND

Evening Star, Issue 17279, 18 February 1920, Page 6

THE STATE OF IRELAND

UNRESERVEDLY CONDEMNED BY

LABOR. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. LONDON, February 16. (Received February 18, at 1.45 p.m.) It is understood that the Laborites, following on their visit to Ireland, will report that they are profoundly impressed by the irrefutable evidence of the failure ot present methods of the Government from Dublin Castle, and will criticise outspokenly their condemnation of repressive measures to enforce a system of government not in harmony with the sentiments of the great mass of the people. It is expected that the Parliamentary Labor Party will endorse the visitors’ declarations. The House of Commons road a second time the War Lmergencies Continuance Bill, which continues modified Defence of the Realm regulations. Lord Robert Cecil, replying to the Irish Opposition, said that he would always support the Government in any measure intended to suppress crime, but he doubted whether the form of coercion now being adopted in Ireland was the best suited to diminish crime. .Mr T. P. O'Connor’s amendment to omit a longer period of the operation of the Act in “Ireland than in England was negatived by 162 to 56. During the forenoon, and in the busiest part of Cork, six armed men held up a policeman carrying a 'mail bag, and escaped with the mail bag.