THE IRISH PROBLEM.

North Otago Times, Volume CV, Issue 13932, 14 July 1917, Page 2

THE IRISH PROBLEM.

EAST CLARE BY-ELECTION. (Per Cable—Press Association—Copyright.) (Australian and N.Z, Cable Association) LONDON, July 12, The Sinn Feiners campaign was excellently organised. Mr De Yalera had plenty of motor-cars, speakers, and canvassers, and a large number of Roman Catholic priests, assisted, while nluch money came from America, it is believcil from a German source. Pessimists among Redmondites say that the election shows that no Nationalist's seat is now safe outside the' city of Dublin. Recent elections prove that a large number of the younger Irijlimen have revolted against the Nationalist Party machine. A feature of the present situation most alarming lo the Unionists is the apparent breakdown of discipline in the Roman Catholic Church, Many teachers in national schools are propagating revolutionary doctrines without any. discouragement from the priests, and the bishops' recent instructions lo the clergy have been completely ignored.