IRELAND'S TURMOIL

Otago Daily Times, Issue 17942, 22 May 1920, Page 9

IRELAND'S TURMOIL

NEW MILITARY POLICY.

THE 'GOVERNTVrENT DETERMINED

Prow Association—By Telegraph—Copyright,

LONDON, May 20. Tho now military policy is becoming rnoio and more evident in Ireland, where the cavalry sxo increasingly active. Hussars are patrolling tho hills outside Dublin, and others are at Wick low. Tho Naval Brigade arrived at Skibbereen, and further military detachments are arriving daily in tho south-west, and are occupying the police barracks. Replying to Lord Salisbury in the House of Lords, tho Lord Chancellor emphatically declared that it was the policy of tho Government, whether the struggle was short or long, to employ tho whole of the available resources of Britain to restore Law and order in Ireland and render the secessionary campaign now in progress utterly impossible. Tho forces of Britain were as deeply committed to carrying to success the Government's purpose in Ireland as they were to carry out their purpose in tho late war. If the troops now there were insufficient more would be sent, and tho only limits would be the extended degree of the crisis. 'If the existing military formation proved insufficient, the Government would not hesitate to ask the population of tho country to increase tho forces, as in the crisis of the war.—A. and N.Z. Cable.

NEW YORK, May 20. De Valeria, in a cable to Mr Arthur Griffith at Dublin, urges the Irish Nationalists, particularly the women, to go to the polls at the elections next month to "expose the falsehood circulated by British propagandists that the desire to uphold the Irish Republic is weakening."

DISORDER, AT LIMEEICK. LONDON, May 20. (Received May 21, at 5.5 p.m.) As tho result of disorders at Limerick at night time the police and miltiary arrived, and some firing occurred. A civilian was shot dead, an old woman was shot in the ankle, and a girl was wounded.— A. and N.Z. Cable.

ENGLISH DOCKERS,

SYMPATHY .WITH IRELAND.

LONDON, May 20. (Received May 21, at 7.35 p.m.) English dockers and Irish transport woi-kera have agreed not to handle munitions intended for use in Ireland.—A. and N.Z. Cable.