IMPOSSIBLE IN IRELAND.
BISHOPS' DENUNCIATION
CROWN WHOLLY AT FAULT
(Received 11 a.m.)
LONDON, Oct. 20
The Irish Bishops in conclave at Maynooth have issued the following statement:—"Where terorrism, partiality and failure to apply the principles of government are rampant it is impossible to uphold the Law of God. In a scale truly appalling must be reckoned countess indiscriminate raids, arrests in the darkness of the night, prolonged imprisonment without trial, savage sentences from tribunals that do not command and do not deserve confidence, the 'burning of houses and crops, destruction of industries to pave the way for want or famine by men maddened with plundered drink bent on the flogging, and massacres of civilians, all perpetrated by forces of the Crown."
Referring to Ulster the Bishops say .—"The plausiible sentiment about not coercing Ulster is founded on false pretence, which if pressed will, we warn the Government, brin.? the danger of bitter and prolonged civil strife."—A. and N.Z.
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Northern Advocate, 21 October 1920, Page 5
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