BURNINGS IN IRELAND.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIII, Issue 354, 23 March 1922, Page 5

BURNINGS IN IRELAND.

REPUBLICAN RAIDS IN TYRONE. I'IIOTKSTANTS LEAVING til KIR HOMES. LONDON, Man.h 21. Tim Daily Telegraph's Belfast correspondent stator that tint new campaign of dying columns of the Republican Army against the loyalists in Tyrone lias aroused intense excitement in flic North and terrible consequences may follow, People arc asking whether Britain has forgotten that the Ulstermen are still subjects of the King. The farmers in Tyrone are men of substance, but their well-kept farms now present a melancholy spectacle ot ruin and desolation. Incendiarism is so widespread that, the constabulary is quite incapable of coping with the situation. It is pointed out that the British Government, thus far, has lent no aid or protection to the border, whieh duty is left entirely to Ulster specials. Protestant families in the danger zones are vacating their homes and seeking shelter further north or only visiting their homes in the daytime, to tend the stock. The destruction of loyalists’ homes in Tyrone is widespread and the sky is lurid with the glare of burning homesteads. Home of the largest, farms in the county have been tired.

An aged man was shot while defending liis home against incendiaries, who later burned the farm.

A Republican communique slates: “We inflicted 20 casualties on members of the Ulster (,'onsiahulifry who attempted to blowup Burns bridge. I hey were torced to retreat. the Republicans capturing a mcahino-guii and other weapons. ’ The communique adds; “The situation on the border is very menacing:”

'('fie Northern Parliament passed the seetliid reading of the Bill tor , the suppression.’ of crime,•: Aly Mogaw, Minister for Home Affairs, said; "If the other side will oot accept peace, let there be war, but l ister will never be terrorised or driven by..l lie Sinn Hein Parliament.”. "The .Belfast carters have abandoned their strike, further protection being assured. — A, and N.Z. cable. SERIOUS TENSION. LONDON, March 21, Mr Winston Lliureliill, in the House ot ('ominous, replying to a. question, said the general condition of the Ulster boundary was one of the most serious tension. Liaison officers on both sides were not functioning as they should, hut - overwhelming forces would be made available to the Northern Government, if they were wanted for defence or the maintenance of law and order. Conditions in Belfast were most lament able. Ho had telegraphed to the Free State that there was no danger of a raid from Ulster in consequence of its campaign.—A. and N.Z. cable. DEBATE IN HOUSE OF LORDS, LONDON. March 21. In the House of Lord-, Lord (.'arson mcived tb; give Ulster the right of appeal no the Pnw (.'ouuoil if she was dissatislied with the decision of the Boundary Commission.

Lord. Ifirkenhead replied fliat no one sugrested there was any ambiguity about tlia dause until Mr Hollins. a- layman, ' pm or ward his claim. In the speaker’s judgnent, it commission dealing with boundaries ivas one thing and a commission dealing' with the transfer ot territory was quite mother thing. He did not donhl that a ■ompeteni- chairman would be appointed. ■ trd i arson’s amendment would destroy the whole treaty.

it- 'H>ate was adjourned. On the motion to consider the Free State Bill in committee, Lord Salisbury appealed to the Government to allow amendments removing ambiguities and improving the Bill within the principles of the treaty. Lord Peel pointed out that it modilications to 'lie treaty were introduced, the other party to the pact could claim the same right. II members desired to wreck the Government, it was open to them to do so, but he would not accept any amendment affecting the treaty. Lord (’arson said he could, have gt'eti notice of thousands of amendments tor he had never read a more muddled and unreadable Bill. Nevertheless, they proposed to confute themselves to amendments tor improving the Bill, and not for alteiing the treaty. -A. and N.Z. cable.