IRELAND

Evening Star, Issue 17921, 17 March 1922, Page 4

IRELAND

THE TREATY BILL.

BEFORE HOUSE OP LORES.

Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright,

LONDON, March 15.

In the House of Lords Viscount Peel, in moving the second reading of the Irish Treaty Bill, said ho thought tho delay in holding tho. Irish elections had many advantages. A slow, steady movement had arisen among the Irish people against De Valera and in favor of the treaty. Lord Lansdowne said lie thought the Bill tampered with the very foundations of the constitutional system. He was an unrepentant Unionist, but he realised as a Unionist that the party policy had been thrown overboard, and that the rejection of the Bill would extinguish the only ray illuminating the melancholy horizon. The Government was riding for a fall over the Ulster boundary. Lord Haldane believed jtbat the only alternative to tho treaty was civil war, costing endless blood and treasure. Tho debate was adjourned.—A. ai d N.Z. Cable.

BELFAST CRIMES,

LONDON, March 16,

A five-year-old child at Belfast was shot dead while playing with a doll at the door of a house in Falls road. A mm was shot dead at a corner of Cork street.—A. and N.Z. Cable.

REPUBLICAN PLATFORM

LONDON, March 16, (Received March 17, at 10 a.m.)

The Republican members of Bail Eireann have formed a Republican Association. 'Do Valera slates that among its declared objects are the securing of international recognition of the Republic, the removal of every vestige of foreign authority or interference, and repudiation of the proposed agreement with Great, Britain as Doing humiliating to the nation.—A. and N.Z. Cable.

BOMB OUTRAGES.

WITH LOSS OF LIFE.

LONDON, Alarch 16. (Received Alarch 17, at 11.5 a.m.)

Three bombs were thrown in Stafford street, Belfast. One was hurled into a yard where tho military were, assembled, but it failed to explode. The others exploded in the street. One person was killed, and seven injured wore sent to hospital The second bomb outrage occurred in the same district. Three persons were injured, one of whom is dying.

COWARDLY ASSASSINS.

MEN MURDERED IN HOSPITAL,

LONDON, March' 16. (Received Alarch 17, at 9.35 a.m.)

There has been a Kories of cowardly murders in Galway. Item- masked men entered a private hospital, and fired at three members of the Royal Irish Constabulary, who were ill. Two were shot dead.

A police official, who was lying in the general hospital, was also fatally shot by two masked intruders.—-A. and N.Z. Cable.

KIDNAPPERS SENTENCED

LONDON, Alarch 16, (Received Alarch 17, at 9.35 a.m.)

At the Tyrone Assizes four men, who were concerned in kidnapping at Deny, wore sentenced to five years. Thirteen others received varying terms for carrying firearms. —A. and N.Z. Cable.

TRAINS HELD UP,

MAIL ROBBED,

LONDON, Alarch 16, (Received Alarch 17, at 11.5 a.m.)

, The Belfast train to Dublin was held up near Adavoyle. Armed men put the signal at “Danger.” They covered the train officials with revolvers, and took the registered letters. There was a similar hold-up on Tuesday.—A, and N.Z. Cable.