IRISH AFFAIRS.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XLIV, Issue 14821, 21 October 1920, Page 4

IRISH AFFAIRS.

By EIiECTIUO TELEGRAPH—C 0p (Per Press Association)*

lAus. and N.Z. Cable A.L. R. ceived October 20, at 2 & •' LONDON, Ort o^'*. In answer to. a series of i> "■ in the House or" Coi'ninous J? Uest «oiß Ireland, Sir Hamar that since New lear, 011,1 1 'aid police arid eighteen soldier, I, killed and 160 police and $S soldiers wounded. Six luind B' V '^ f sixty-seven attacks had 1m on 'J*. «nj barracks. The Government n i? 0 " for coping with the outran H steadily improving. The I r jf? w «? stabulary was steadily inoreasi, ing to the. recruiting of own G <*■ cs-solcliers. ""^anj Sir E. Shortt declined to re]* Sweeney and said the prison i^ - ties administered no food. t "°!i. Mr Bonar Law said the Govern intended proceeding with ti, Rule Bill. " ' 6 H«m

Mr M-alone interjected : L meantime is it the Government ft* to continue the campaign of ,™ R and reprisals.:- (Coalition unro!?^ Mr Bonar Law: It is t £) the Government in th ( > liipanti,, " put down murder and out ram.. J,b lition cheers.) ■ v.%. Uniformed men took two Sim, p. ers, brothers, from their honio in ?' peraray and shot them dead : l * presence of relatives. n % Received October 20. at. r>.s „,., . LONDON oeto£0 eto £ During, requiem mass lor (U hj„ striker with a drawn revolver and a filenf ' <?d soldiers, approached the altir warned the Canon that more tinn'iJ' persons would not he allowed tn'ni the coffin to tho grave, kater t ft cer megaphoned to the crowd <t ,• that he had orders to fire if wero disobeyed. He intended to force iC necessary. The crmt<i ■' v> plied. " «». Received October 21. at 9.lft „„, LONDON. OrtohS'* The Irish Bishops at Mavnoothk, issued a, statement as follows: "\|C terrorism, partiality, and a fuiw? apply the principles of government £' : rampant, it is impossible to nnUIJ law of God. On a scale trnlvT > must bo reckoned the eouiilless Lj■' discriminate raids and arrests in £ darkness of night, prolonged i mwi * ment without trial, savave «p»WV from tribunals, that do not comnaS' and do not desire, confidence, tlieta, ing of houses and crops, and the?. struction of industries to pnvo the *T for : want and famine by men niaddenS with plundered drink, bent or and massacres ot civilians, all ,SJi rated by the forces of the Ci W n™ Referring to Ulster, tho Bisbous mthat the plausible sentiment about tint ■ coercing Ulster is founded on a u! pretence, which, if pressed, will 1 warn the Government, bring nA* gei- of bitter and prolonged civil strife "(Renter's Telegrams.)■' ' Received October 21. at 8.4(1 a m LONDON. Oetober k The Cork Court of Inquiry ret^ ■a. verdict that Fitzgerald' whid sound mind deliberately killed hitnl.self. ' ■■ •/'