IRISH AFFAIRS.

Manawatu Times, Volume XLIII, Issue 1511, 10 March 1920, Page 5

IRISH AFFAIRS.

WAR EMERGENCY LAWS. DEBATE IN HOUSE OF COMMONS BITTER COMMENTS ON BRITISH RULE. [By Electric Cable —Copyright.] [Aust. and N.Z. Cable Association.] LONDON, March 4. On the third reading of the War Emergency Laws Continuance Bill, in the House of Commons, Mr Wedgewood Benn moved its rejection. Pie said men had been imprisoned without trial, contrary to the Magna Charta. The frequent raids were welding all classes of Irish opinion the present administration and against British rule, Mr J. I. Macpherson, Chief Secretary for Ireland, said he regretted the speech. It was calculated to make administration more difficult, and endanger the lives of officials. No lawabiding citizen In Ireland need fear the continuance of the regulations. They must remember that the Sinn Feiners had endeavoured to stab the Empire in the back in its darkest hour. The Sinn Feiners were nowendeavouring to collect arms. Their conspiracy of murder must be broken. There were over 200,000 adherents of the Sinn Fein in Ireland, all ready to murder loyal subjects. Mr Thomas said that in spite of coercion, the state of Ireland to-day was worse than ever, and proved the failure of the present rule. Mr Redmond said that if it was not tragic, it would be humorous to see. the members squabbling over the corpse of Ireland on the dissecting table of the House of Commons. Ireland once again was the shuttlecock of British party politics. The Irish people were driven to desperation. The motion for rejection was defeated by 291 votes to 52.

A MAGISTRATE MURDERED. LONDON, March 5. Captain Shawe Taylor, a magistrate in Athenry, County Galway, has been shot dead, after many previous attempts to assassinate him. The military have carried out further extensive raids. A train was daringly held up at Kincasslagh, County Donegal. Armed and masked men tied up the stationmaster and porters and smashed the telegraph instruments. When the train steamed in they boarded the engine .and searched the passengers’ luggage, apparently looking for arms. ~DAXL ERRAN.” (Received Tuesday, 8.5 p.m.) LONDON, March 4. The Waterford Corporation with one dissenting voice passed a resolution acknowledging Dail Erran as the ■duly authorised Irish Government, promising to give effect to all its decrees. Copies of the resolution have been sent to the Republican Minister for Irish Affairs, who has been asked to transmit them to the Governments of Europe and America.