IRELAND.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 23 March 1922, Page 5

IRELAND.

; REELING OF APPREHENSION

CRIME SUPPRESSION BILL.

THE BOUNDARY QUESTION. IIT CABLE— PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT IiONDON, March 21. Ihe Daily Telegraph's Belfast correspondent states that a new campaign of ■ttying columns of the Republican army against loyalists in Tyrone has aroused intense excitement in the North, and » terrible consequences may follow. People are asking whether .Britain has forgottea that Ulstermen "are still subjects of' the aving. .■""-" The farmers in Tyrone are men of substance. Their well-kept farms, how«ver, present a melancholy spectacle of ruin and desolation. Incendiarism is so widespread that the Constbulary is quite incapable to cope with the situation. It is pointed out thafEhe British Government thus far has lent no aid or pro- - lection to the border, which has been left entirely to the Ulster specials. ' Protestant families in the danger zone are vacating their homes and seeking shelter further north, or only visiting frames in the daytime to tend their stock. The- Northern Parliament passed the second reading of thei Bill for the suppression of crime. / Mr Megan- in moving the second sj^ading, said that captured documents flttpved that the Republican army was - inactive-in Ulster until it was possible .to operate m security under the protec"tion of the truce. One battalion was ! - raised and equipped In one district be-i tween September and December" The i trace was used as an instrument to or- i ganise a hostile army and a' conspiracy '< ' *o overthrow the Northern Government. , ixtne other side would hot accept peace, ' let there he war, but Ulster would never *c, terrorised or driven by the Sinn Fein -Parliament. . >. «w ?lP UDIi can communique states:' tti A c "yjrctel twenty casualties on the ' Ulster Constabulary who attempted to blow up Burns bridge. They were forced t to retreat, -the Republicans capturing-f a machine gun and other weapons " The : communique adds that the situation on > me border is very menacing j .In the House of Lords, on the motion I to consider the Free State Bill in com- 1 mittee. Lord Salisbury appealed to, the ] Government to allow amendments^ re- '* j?° vm £ aml»guities and improving- the ! Bill within the principles of the treaty i Lord Peel pointed out that if modifi- lcations in the treaty were introduced ! the other party to the pact could claim ~*™ ITif T?**' If memDers desired to-: wreck the Government it was open for them to do so. He would noF accept any amendment affecting the treaty Lord Carson said he could have given ■ aotice of thousands of amendment!1 for ■ SH'-X sev^,irea^l- a more muddled'and i i .unreadable Bill. Nevertheless, they pro- '■ posed .to confine- themselves to amend- I '32^ Bill an d not I „--- altering the treaty. The destruction of loyalists' homes in »S£ n + V S ldfe^ad.--■ The sky is lurid 'S&^+S*? of buminffJiome S teads. borne of the largest tarms in the country have been fired. aged man was shot while defend- £& £ hom ie A gainst incendiaries, who later burned the farm - j Mr Churchill, in the House of Com-I inons, replying to a. question, said that! the |enenu condition of the Ulster = boundary was one of the most serious tension The haison officers on both sides were not functioning as the" i& d- °/erwhelmmg.forc%s would W -^f^ available to the Northern Govern- r Jient if .wanted for defence or the maintenance of law and order. The condi-1 H?l. *S *$***■■****■*** lamentable. Me ■ had telegraphed to the Free "State ! - Tfi^f - c was no danger of a raid from I Ulster m consequence of the campaign «,^^ c OUSlr,°f Lords ' Lo *-d Carson! H £* Ive ™s% «» "ght of appeal j ■ to tne Privy Council if-dissatisfied with' - the decision of the boundary commis•n?l^ sil^5 il^^ ad "Plied that no one euggested that there was any ambiguity about the clause until Mr Collins, hsZ Sl\ j^d his claim- In Lord, JK^kenheads judgment the commission -dealing with boundaries was one thine and a commission dealing with the tran£ i fer of territory was quite another thing, i He had no doubt that a competent 2 a ,MMn"i. WS??d- |)e- aPPointed, who would reach the same conclusion. . Lord parson's amendment would destroy the i whole^treaty. ' - , J The debate -was adjourned ' Th TS.W -*-:■ March 22. .Ihe Belfast'carters have abandoned their strike, further- protection being assured-. : - -. -