IRISH AFFAIRS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIII, Issue 1705, 20 December 1919, Page 5

IRISH AFFAIRS.

ALLEGED MILITARIST PLOT INCITING TO OUTRAGE.

By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright. Australian-New Zealand Cable Association LONDON, Dec. 18.

In tho House of Commons prior to Mr T, O’Connor moving an adjournment to ca’ll attention to tho suppression of Freeman’s Journal, Mr Macpherson said that the Journal had served a writ on the Government, therefore, the question was sub judicc. Mr O’Connor defended the articles for which tho journal was suppressed. One condemned the enlistment of . civil servants as special constables, and another declared tluit crime in Ireland was England’s greatest asset. Mr O’Connor said there was evidence of a militarist plot to provoke Ireland to outrage, and drown Homo Rule in blood. Tho Government was creating crime. •- ' ‘• f

Mr Adamson sgid that Labour believed that the frequency of repressive ‘measures was closely,connected with,.tho prevalence of crime in Ireland; Mr Denis. Henry said that the articles in tho Freeman’s Journal had long boon tolerated, but thev bad became too objectionable. Tho dournal had declared that civil Servants not joining tho specials would bo marked men.