FATEFUL DAYS.

Manawatu Times, Volume XLVI, Issue 2098, 12 April 1922, Page 5

FATEFUL DAYS.

ON BRINK OF WAR. ANOTHER EASTER WEEK FORESHADOWED. "UP, THE REPUBLIC!" IBy Eiectric Cable —Copyright] LAust. and N.Z. Cable Association^ (Received Tuesday, 11 p.m.) LONDON, April 11. The "Daily Express's" Belfast cor-j icspondent learns authoritatively that Mr Coilms has requested Britain to retain the remainder of the British troops in the South of Ireland, where the position is serious. .It is stated that -Mr Ue Valera may! possibly declare a Republic during I faster, on the anniversary of the first: sjinn Fein rebellion. j ACTIVITIES OF i>E VALERAITES. i (Received Tuesday, 5.5 p.m.) BONBON, April 10. When Judge Cooke attended the i Lifford Courthouse to open the Done-j gai sessions, he found armed Republi- j cans in possession and they refused him admission. Two armed women held up the Donegal train at ■ iresslough and seized j and burned Belfast and Berry news- j papers. While Mr Gavan Unify was address-] ing a meeting at Tuiiamore, Republi-, cans rushed the platform, overturned; the press tables, seized Mr Duffy ana, dragged him from the platform amid j crocs ol: "l.'p, Be Valera! i.p the Re-j public!" ! t-inii Feiners wrecked the Albert i Street Presbyterian Church in Belfast j and smashed Ihe communion plate.: 'J.'hc church is now useless for service.: mg?« okaxt speech. LONDON, April 1.0. Mr Winston Churchill, replying to a question ill the Bouse of Commons, said the Government's pledge not to i.cognise the Irish republic still held good. If the situation changed with great suddenness the Government must be trusted lo deal with it. He believed the Provisional Government' was doing its utmost to carry out the agreement for ending th'e, boycott ofj Belfast. The ImperiaJ Government could not intervene at present.