RELATIONS WITH ULSTER.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 18021, 21 February 1922, Page 7

RELATIONS WITH ULSTER.

JOINT FRONTIER PATROL

FOOTBALLERS RELEASED.

LESS SHOOTING IN BELFAST.

Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.

(Becd. 7.30 p.m)

LOMX)N, Feb. 19.

The Viceroy of Ireland, Lord Fitzalan, has ordered the immediate release of the Mouaghan footballers, who wero detained in Ulster. Mr. Michael Collins has ordered the releuse of 18 more kidnapped Ulstermen.

The Northern Government had previously decided to cancel the prosecution of the Monaghan footballers, though they had beea already committed for trial.

The Border Commissioners have been accepted by both Irif.li Governments, and were operating during the week-end, continually patrolling the frontier in order to settle any causes of friction. Belfast is more peaceful, and t Hooting is restricted in scale, though a butcher •was shot in his shop by armed raiders, anil a publican seriously wounded by' a bomb which wrecked an alehouse. A girl of 12 years was ■wounded by a bullet which came through a window as she sat in the kitchen. Five men stopped a maa ' in Cupar Street, asked for a match, and then shot the man, dangerously wounding

him. Mr. Michael Collins, interviewed regarding Mr. Churchill's statement that by establishing the Free State the Irish people would disestablish the republic, said that nothing would ever be proposed to the Irish people that would tie the nation's feet finally.