CRIME IN IRELAND.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LVI, Issue 17348, 20 December 1919, Page 9

CRIME IN IRELAND.

NATIONALIST ALLEGATIONS.

A MILITARIST PLOT. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Heed. 11.30 p.m.) LONDON. Dec. 18. In the House of Commons, before Mr. T. P. O'Connor, Nationalist member for the Scotland Division of Liverpool, moved the adjournment of the House to call attention to the suppression of Freeman's Journal, Mr. Lan Macpherson, Chief Secretary for Ireland, said that the journal had served a writ on the Government and therefore the matter was sub judice. Mr. O'Connor defended the articles for which the journal was suppressed. One condemned the enlistment of civil servants as special constables. Another declared that crime in Ireland was England's greatest asset. Mr. O'Connor said that there was evidence of a militarist plot to provoke Ireland to outrage and to drown Home Rule in blood. The Irish Government was creating crime.

■ Mr. W. Adamson, chairman of the Labour said that the Labour Party believed that the frequency of repressive measures wat closely connected with the prevalence of crime in Ireland.

Mr. Denis Henry, Unionist member for Londonderry, said that the articles in Freeman's Journal had been long tolerated, but they had become too objectionable. The journal declared that civil servants who did not become special constables would be marked men.