IN IRELAND
EVENTS IN BELFAST. QUESTION IN THE HOUSE. SECRETARY’S EE PLY. (Australian and N, Z. Cable Association.) Received this day at 11.20 a.m. LONDON, July 26. In the House of Commons in reply to a motion by Mr. Dovliq for the adjournment to call attention to events in Belfast and the failure of the Government to protect Catholics Sir Hamer Greenwood said that soldiers and police would deal yvith the mobs whether Protestant or Catholic exactly alike. There were five battalions of infantry in Belfast and thro others were available if required. Warships were nearby and 1156 police. The Government had done everything possible and had prevented one of the greatest Catastrophes that could have befallen ■ Ireland in the shape of massacre of thousands and devastating civil war. He emphatically refuted the suggestion that the reprisals had been any part of the Government’s policy. The police and military had shown the sternest impartiality.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 28 July 1920, Page 5
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