IRELAND

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LVI, 12 October 1922, Page 5

IRELAND

OPENING OF ULSTER PARLIAMENT (Bv Electric Telegrapti. —Copyright.) (Australian & N.Z. Cable Association.) LONDON, Oct. 10. Tim autumn session of the Ulster Parliament lias opened. Sir James Craig said that Parliament had met under more satisfactory conditions than on anv occasion since self-government. Ulster' would not go under the Dublin Parliament so long as he held office. No man in his senses would suggest any other course than voting out the Free 'State when the time came. MOUNT JOY PRISON OUTBREAK LONDON, Oct. 11. The Dublin Provisional Parliament, replying to questions in regard to the outbreak at Mountjoy Prison, the President said the official report showed three guards were dead, two wounded, one prisoner dead and two wounded, j Two land mines were found in the cells, | indicating co-opcration from outside. He j promised to enquire into the matter and see that precautions were taken in future. Twenty-five irregulars, prisoners at (In; courthoftse at Kantury, County Cork, overpowered the guard, seized their rifles and ammunition and escaped. Nationals are actively searching for them. IRISH HIERARCHY REVOLT CONDEMNED A full meeting of the Irish Hierarchy at Maynooth, issued a pastoral strongly condemning the revolt and guerilla warfare against the Free State Government. It declares that the killing of Nationalist soldiers is murder before God. It denounces robberies, destruction of roads, and railways and other outrages. It also announces that persons guilty of such crimes will not be given absolution or admitted to communion if they persist in such evil courses. Any prieata approving of the insurrection are false to their office* and guilty of the gravest scandal and will not be allowed to retain the faculties held from the Hierarchy. GRAVIETY OF HIERARCHY PRONOUNCEMENT LONDON, Oct. 11. The Dublin press emphasises the. gravity of the Hierarchy pronouncement in view of the expiration. on the 14th of the amnesty offered by the Government. Freeman’s Journal says that defiance of the verdict givne hy the highest Irish ecclesiastical court will, mean repudiation of the fundamental doctrines of the Catholic Church and must lead to ecclesiastical anarchy more disastrous than the present civil' anarchy. .