THE RULE OF THE GUN.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIII, Issue 400, 18 May 1922, Page 5

THE RULE OF THE GUN.

SINN FEINERS' OBJECTION.

THE DEMAND FOR. PEACE,

By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright. Received May 18, 0.40 a.m. LONDON, May 16. Tho Sinn Fein executive nl Belfast has passed a resolution "on behalf of the persecuted, terrorised minority of this city, callitig on Dail Eireann to forthwith establish a stable government," .declaring the conviction thai "the best means of acquiring peace in Belfast is the establishment of peace in the rest of Ireland," and also expressing the opinion that until tho special police paid by the British Government, are disbanded or disarmed there will not be peace. A resolution was also passed condemning and deploring "the rule of the gun, for which the. rule of the people should be substituted."—Reiner.

NEGOTIATIONS FAIL.

Received May 18. 9.5 a.m. "LONDON. May 17,

It was officially announced in Dail Eireann that the • peace negotiations had broken down. —A. and N.Z. cable.

FIGHTING AT A FUNERAL.

ATTACK BY SEINN FEINERS,

LONDON, May 16,

At the funeral of Beattie, the murdered Belfast policeman, Seinn Feiners, without the lensr provocation, fired into the mourn ors following tho coffin. Several persons Were shot, and the clergy bad a narrow oscnpo. Women and children in the streets were terror-stricken and fled screaming, or lay in heaps on tho ground. .Military police cars guarding the funeral turned and fired upon the attackers, who returned tho fire. A nam named Fadden, who was concerned in the firing, was pursued by the infuriated mob into a shop, where he was shot dead.— A. and N.Z. cable.