IRISH REPUBLICANS.

Manawatu Times, Volume XLVII, Issue 2776, 18 October 1923, Page 5

IRISH REPUBLICANS.

DEMONSTRATE IN DUBLIN.

11,000 “POLITICALS” STILL

INCARCERATED

VENDETTA AGAINST 8.1. C.

[By Electric Cable —Copyright.] [Aust. and N.Z. Cable Association.] (Received Wednesday, 11.5 p.m.) > LONDON, October 16. Though the situation is quieter than it has been for :fears, the continuance of rebel sentiment is shown by frequent demonstrations in Dublin against the ..continued imprisonment of eleven thousand political prisoners. Four hundred of these imprisoned in Mountjoy gaol, Dublin, on Sunday demanded their unconditional release. When this was refused, they commenced a hunger strike, which continues.

Meanwhile Sir Jas. Craig has announced that the Belfast Parliament will release, two hundred internees. The Government proposed gradually to release the remaining live hundred, provided political conditions continued normal.

A vendetta against former members of the Irish Constabulary has broken out in Donegal, where several cases ol firing into the houses of cx-constables and of their being ordered to leave Ireland have occurred within three days. ' The Roman Catholic Bishops have issued a denunciation x of the Ulster Government’s proposal to abolish proportional representation. The Bishops also complain of the now Ulster. Education Act, which deprives the Catholic clergy of the influence in the schools which they have had hitherto.

Lord Carson, on visiting: Ulster, received a rapturous reception from all clases. At Belfast he was presented with an album In a silver casket, which contained the autographs of 125,000 subscribers. Lady Carson was presented with a rope of pearls.