POWER OF TROOPS LIMITED.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 31 July 1922, Page 7

POWER OF TROOPS LIMITED.

WHAT THE REBELS AIM AT. j (United Service.} i : Received July 31. 1.40 p.m. ! LONDON. July P.O. ' Mr. Jeffries, writing in the Daily " Mail, utters a wnrnine against the expectation that the fall of Cork will -spell the settlement of t^e Irish qnos--tion. Irish questions, like ill-health, will only dissipate Gradually ■ and insensibly. The republican aim is by ;i policy of perpetual and continuous in- - -terference in the civil-Vfe and br.sinpss of the country., and by minor raids, burnings, and smVnss. to fatigue the hostile majority of the Irish neople into ■an acceptance of the/republican pro- .- gramme for the sake of peace and ron-! - soming the f-ountrv from run : also io ■fatigue the English people into wp«liins: their hand? of the problem. Tins plan has very I;tt*p to do with the war "proper, and t^e troops can do some3n^nS »samst it, «nd t^e police more, but only t^e per*^lp at' large "an bring it to nueht. Only when the reo^-le -tb^mcel^^ turn rouivi pnd the -rebels w:H the Fr°e State take slmne pi _&ri edifire. 7'h-p i;rrsr>ns pnv Inv -*■}** foundation, 'but only the public can "build.