AN ORGANISED ARMY

New Zealand Times, Volume XLVI, Issue 10559, 9 April 1920, Page 5

AN ORGANISED ARMY

VISCOUNT FRENCH ON SINN .■••••• ;; “ENGLAND DOES NOT UNDERSTAND IRELAND.”. " ' y ' LONDON,' April 7. In the course of his interview with the - ‘Daily, ’. .Viscount-;French said that .the. Siun„Eein had.now an organised army of 100,001) in regi ments and brigades, - under disciplined officers. Most of the arms had been stolen, hut the army was formidable. The authdtrtie'&*‘lift'd' proof whence the money came, and knew who the three (treasurers were. Two were famous men, one a well-known professor and the other a leading. Catholic Bishop. Lord French, saysr lie is '-convinced that English opinion: is being misled by exaggerated reports. England does not understand -Ireland- one bit. Asked what would'Ro* tlfb' end” hb‘i - eplicd that there wdfc’ -ble&r ’bVidenc'e .of a split m tho Sinu Fein ranks which would probably undoing ol Sinn Fein leaders.. who ■;-wer&,. behind, the Irish murdcia.-dn spito-ot,tho- attempt to throw the blame on other “’ * . - :r ' Lord French added that the biph Feiners had executed Mr -MacCuitaiu, the Mayor' of Cork, because he refused, as Brigadier oi> the Irish' Volun tcers, to Mgn < the * death*'Warrant of a certain man win Rad been condemned 'co die. This man was found later, shot outside Liberick. 1