REPRISALS IN IRELAND.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIII, Issue 226, 30 December 1920, Page 5

REPRISALS IN IRELAND.

; oqmM issi oNis R EPO RT. • CROWN - I-XDiWIS‘BHAMED. - > (By - • Received ; He6eniDer’ , 3t^-'‘B.ss , ‘'aVm;'■ tl :: London, p<*. 29. : .'//.T|i,e Labour Commission which investigated the TepHssils in Ireland reports: -Thjngs are being done in the nkrae ol Britain make her name stink 1 in the ndfetrils of the' whole world’. terrorism which has been' prealed,'. apd the provocative be-, iiavioilr of- the Crown’s, armed servants, ((into apa.it'from specific reprisals, are Ut .themselvesCluffioient ,to arouse in cur hcArta feelings .'of deepest- horror and shajne.” V ; v-/ ; details of many bprhjngs of dreameries, farm houses, private houses,-shops and public ,build--ings,; and declares that the Crown’s -forces . were guilty of arson, looting, theft and brutality. “Only by repudiating the errors of the -past,” says the; report; ■ “can the, democracy of Britain mjover its> honour; only, by granting Ireland the freedom; which, is Her dUe can we fulfill oiif responsibilities towards our sister nation(Ar. and N.Z. .cable.) r,

CHALLENGE TO GOVERNMENT,

JUDICIAL INQUIRY ASKED. FOR. . . .Received December 30, 10.5 .a.m. 1 LONDON,- Dec. 29. v The Labour Commission’s - report 'i# /vol-~ uminbus. It adroite that' it ■is difficult to bbtain evidence in regard'to/rbprisals .and, terrorism. Tho report states, that it is misleading to -describe, the Sinn Fein- force as ’f ix army! for it is fan army only dn name. It is formidable because it is intangible; " The report states,;:'f.hat the Commission does hot -believe that the .:Government directly or definitely inspired „V the reprisals and Violence; but it liberated forces, which it could not dominate', and -therefore' the -responsibility rest's with the Govern--ment.' ■ The National Cojiference of the; Labour, Party at : Westminster, discussed"'the . Irish-’ report;.- Mr A. G.' Cameron 'and other members of the Commission reiterated the charges, and asked the delegates when they returned to their districts to endeavour to arouse public opinion against tho Govornr The conference unanimously passed a resolution deploring the lamentable condi/ tions in Ireland and challenging;, the Government to disprove the statementse. in the Commission’s report," by ’ a judicial .inquiry into the reprisals.—(A. and N.Z. cable).

: v NOTORIOUS COUNTESS. SENT TO GAOL FOR TWO YEARS. ;‘v > ■ London, Deo. 28. • '"Countess Markievicz has been sentenced to two years’ hard labour for promoting, m organisation for murdering police and soldiers. —(Av and N.Z., ciibieK___^