SINN FEINERS IN IRELAND.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIII, Issue 295, 7 April 1921, Page 5

SINN FEINERS IN IRELAND.

ATTACKS' MADEVON POLICE.

(By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright., Received April 7, 9.30 a.m.. LONDON, April 6. Simultaneous Sinn Fein attacks were made on the police all over mid-Tyrone last jiighlf. ;. Eight constables have been sent to hospital seriously .wounded.—A, and N.Z. cable.

ES'MONDE REMANDED FOR WEEK

OTTAWA, April 5. ' Esmond© spent the night in the cells, but bail to-day was fixed at £ISOO. Esmonde has been remanded for a- week—A. and N.Z. cable.

GOLF LINKS MYSTERY. LONDON, April 6. Dublin is mystified over the shooting of Fovarguc on the Ashford golf links. Dublin Castle issued a communique on February 1 stating that the prisoner Fovargue,. while being .conveyed in a: military lorry for examination, escaped during an attack on tho lorry. Sinn Feiners discredit the Castle story, and state that Fovargue was unknown in connection with the Republican or any other movement in . Ireland.—A. and N.Z. cable. ■ "

OPINION OF DR. MANNIX. j BLAMES THE GOVERNMENT. NEW YORK, April 5. The Chicago News' Romo correspondent interviewed Dr. Mannix ; who said: "So long: as the Irish question remains" unsettled, there never will bo real friendship between Britain and tho- United States. England may, reach'out hopefully to seek peace, but each attempt will bo frustrated by the long, hand of Iroland opposing every /hope, every desire and every plan relentlessly. I see no hope for Ireland so long as England is governed by the men now in power. The Labour Party and a large part of the Liberals ore favourable to U 6, but they cannot get a hearing, and I expect matters,, will take, their course until thoy got so bad that they will solve themselves. Tho -Irish;/ will .accept only, one thing, namely, an ment of tho right to decides their, own destiny. Any arrangements to safeguard the Empire arc possiblo once this is admitted. The creation of two Parliaments will do nothing to,ease the situation. The majority of tho 'people in the Dominions aro favourable to Ireland, but the Governments are conservative. I, as 4 a freeman, claim tho right to land anywhere I please, but instead I could not oven visit certain cities in England." The correspondent asked .whether the Vatican was contemplating intervention in tho Irish situation, and Dr. Mannix re-, plied: "Not that I know of, but I may i say this, that when the Pope .received me a few days ago ho offered to present a request, to the British Government through ordinary diplomatic channels, that I bo allowed to visit my family in Iroland. I refused tho offer. Either I enter Ireland as a right, or I never enter it."—A. and N.Z. cable.

CHURCHES STRIVING FOR PITACE

APPEAL TO GOVERNMENT. LONDON, April 6. Several Bishops and the heads of Nonconformist, chinches in England and Scotland have signed/an appeal to the Premier and Sir Tlamar Greenwood protesting against indiscriminate reprisals in Ireland, adding that, they cannot 'regard the outrages which occasioned the reprisals policy as. ordinary wanton criminality, but, the outcome o! a Benae of political grievance, and they urge the Government to attempt to secure a truce and adopt a policy of conciliation—A. and N.Z. cablo.

HIBERNIAN SOCIETY'S PROTEST. (Ppr Prom Aiwidinn.) , ... j . CIIRISTCHURCH.- April-6. t The Hibernian Society's annual-Dominion conference passed the following resolutions:—(l) That iii common with an overwhelming mass of Irish people of various faiths; with representatives of_ English Liberals. Unionists and Labourites, and prominent English journals, ' the Baptist. Union of Great Britain and and with 17 episcopal leaders of the Established Church of England, this New Zealand district mooting of tho Hibernian Australasian Catholic Benefit Society records its solemn protest against, the regime of militarist opnression and crime which has brought such bitter.woe upon Ireland. (2) This-meeting stmngly affirms the just and inalienable right of the Irish people to control thenown affairs. (3) That'copies of these resolutions b e sent to the Prime Minister® of New Zealand r.nd England, tho Cardinal Archbishop of Armagh and President Harding, of America.