IRELAND

Evening Star, Issue 17824, 22 November 1921, Page 5

IRELAND

SEN SATIO NAT, C H ARG E. GOVERNMENT ORGANISING SECRET ARMY. Press Association—By Tolsgrapli—Copyright. LONDON. November 20. A sensation was caused in political circles by the publication of a secret document alleged to have been issued uy Colonel Wickham. Divisional Commissioner of the Irish Constabulary in R'lfast, which, the Sinn Fein contends, indicates that an army is being secretly organised in Lister by they British Government with the object, of taking tb? field at any moment. It is understood that the document was issued without the knowledge of tho Irish Office in London. Tho matter is being taken up by the authorities.—Renter. TWO ANNIVERSARIES. LONDON, November 21. The I.R.A. paraded 25,000 strong in Dublin yesterday, the annivcisary id the day cm which many of their associates were killed. The force wan mustered in Rutland square in battalions and marched to Glasnevin Cemetery, where wreaths were placed on the graves of tho dead Sinn Reiners. Tho march and the ceremony occupied two hours. While this was occurring the Loyalists remembered that the day was also the anniversary of tho rod Sunday on which fourteen British officers were massacred in their hotels and lodging-houses in Dublin. —A. and N.Z. Cable. INTERNMENT CAMP VACATED, LONDON, November 21. Spikcland internment camp (Queenstown) was evacuated yesterday. Five hundred Sinn Feincrs were transferred under an armed escort to Maryborough. The crowd cheered the prisoners, who sang the soldiers’ song.—-A. and N.Z. Cable. BACKING ULSTER. STRONG STATEMENTS BY UNIONISTS. LONDON, November 21. (Received November 22, at 9.15 a.m.)’ Lord Ampthill, speaking at the National Constitutional Association rally in support of Ulster, said that Englishmen would not submit to the suppression of freedom of speech and the concealment of matters affecting the nation. The country did not give the Government a mandate for tho things which it had dons and was doing. He added: “We all want peace, but not at the price of dishonor or in tho form oi a betrayal of friends, which would place more power in the hands of alien mongrel conspirators, who are sworn implacable enemies of England.’’ Admiral Hall. M.P., said that a false step was made by entering into a conference with rebels. The quarrel to-day was between tho British Government and Ulster. The latter had been manoeuvred round by Sinn Fein.—A. and N.Z. Cable.