BARK SAYS IN IRELAND.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LVI, Issue 17269, 19 September 1919, Page 7

BARK SAYS IN IRELAND.

; REIGN OF TERRORISM. GIRL'S DEED OF MERCY. ! BOYCOTT AS PUNISHMENT. By Telegraph— Press Association—Copyright. (Received 10 p.m.) A. and N.Z. DUBLIN, Sept. 17. The police are having such difficulty in tracing the secret organisations responsible for the outrages in Ireland that it is evident that the terrorists are a very limited body numerically, but the fear they have inspired is very widespread. In one case a girl gave a drink of water to a dying officer, and loosened his tunic. A boycott of the girl followed, and it was necessary to remove her to England. In the disaffected areas the police barrack buildings have been heavily sand-bagged as a precaution against attacks. OUTRAGE IN CORK. 'ARMED MEN ROB ASYLUM. ESCAPE WITNESSED BY CROWD Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Rocd. 9 p.m.) LONDON. Sept. 17. Six armed and masked men robbed the officials of the Cork lunatic J asylum, taking £1500. In the pre- j sence of an apathetic crowd they escaped on bicycles. ON VERGE OF CIVIL WAR. i GOVERNMENT BLAMED. A. and N.Z. LONDON. Sept. 17. The Times, in a leader, says that the suppression of the Dail Eireann, J the Sinn Fein Parliament, opens up ian appalling vista of provocation and retaliation, both sides vying in merely physical endurance, and building up a heritage of bitterest memories. That Ireland is on the verge of civil war is a bitter commentary on British good faith. The Prime Minister and his colleagues must bear the chief blame. In Dublin the worst feature of the situation is the sullen apathy of the more moderate and responsible elements, partly due to the belief that the Government is inspired in its actions from Ulster. The Daily Mail correspondent in Ulster interviewed Mr. Arthur Griffith, the secretary of the Sinn Fein, who said that Lord French's proclamation was only amusing. The j Government cannot suppress 73 members of Parliament. If the bayonet and bullet were to rule, it was intended that the Government should get the bayonet and bullet in return. We are ready for any move, he concluded. * MR. WILSON ON IRELAND. CASE NOT HEARD IN PARIS. A. and N.Z. • SAN FRANCISCO. Sept. 17. In a speech in San Francisco, Mr. Wilson said that a statement of the Irish case was not heard in Paris. The Allies were unable to decide questions not affecting the territories belonging to the defeated Empires. The Irish question could not be decided under Article 2 of the covenant of the League of Nations. The United States had power to recognise any Government whose people seek to achieve or have achieved independence from a member of the league.