UNHAPPY IRELAND.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 15089, 11 December 1919, Page 2

UNHAPPY IRELAND.

, rROUBLED POLITICAL HORIZON. „.' , ..: (Sydney Sun special:).I.ONDON, November 28.^-The corres--roncieut,' of -• the Times at.. Dublin states hat the political situation- offers : hardly •% glqaroJot hope, and frightens moderate xien throughout the country. ; Violent crimes are. on the increase, md their, number and:audacity and the bsence of arrests...indicate the dang'er>us nature of the position. The country people are thoroughly ih'iimidated, and are taitght -to- regard the .aw as ait ..whiich no^ good. ■Irishnan ought to observe or support. .; 'cdijiary .ruffians and highwaynjeft-teye-, - akeai fuU advantage of v ..thfe-" : sitj.^tion ; ,. nd many crimes^ftr© due to meare* greedl. • The Slim Fein ' confidently await the jutcome of the Government's, hungerstriking or del 1 . Two possible policies aew remain— a. political settlement or an -fficent and vigorous' enforcement of^.the Kw. Both Nationalists and Unionists complain that neither is. ftt present pursued. . .■•Sii>' Horace Plunl^ett, . ia- & letter to i .he Times, warns the GovenuTielit ;• here., will be a passionate: explosion: m Ireland ifc. the enforcement ot the.hungersfirikiiig order' results m the "deaths of Prisoners.. » ■.' , • The correspondent of the Daily Exoresa m Dublin states J,hatf the uncer'ainty": o^ policemen's lives m Dublin ; < >.ecessitatjed their pati'QlHng m threes \rmed' with revoiye js.; ; (iVlihtarjf ..patrols rill shortly become 'fteceßsarys v v^-..,v 'i. The correspondent of the Daily Herald n Dublin • ; repbtis tfiafc the= liungertriking j proclamation . becomes virtually \ death; sei^trentQe^ . .and bveiaks the ! repeated : und^vita^flg by . the ; Go,v7eti>metit o. ti'<jafc Sinn-Feinei's as political pris- • nievx. < . ... ' ... :-.".■. . ' ;.■ . : v The Daily Ne\vs;--in<-a : leading aKtielp, the Government's-, policy' as Madness, promising tragedy. .. Xhsi ofc« empt to destroy.f.the> §jun- F«ip .means ■nore- disturbances' and bloodshed, ' and eaves the now Home Rui<j rficheipo without a cliance. . • ■ •;■; London; : Nqv. .26. Outrages continue to-* occur '■•-in Irc'and. , An armed '.and: o»aqli.ed. party f'ai"ded! a. Britisli office.r.'s home at. Cork. The ofi'icer was wound,©4.l and- after airing some weapons an d.. .an:, automobile the party decamped-. .',"'' Police, houses .at^rEimis,.- • haive t . .boen Surnb to the. ground.'. .., --.v! "'?'"' ;' A message received stated -.tha^t-; iiv i ,>iew of tlio . widespread; •>' hurigef^s^rj^ing n tiiejrish prisons the Gfpfernmenij- | issued ; on 'emphatic' 'notice '""tfeat* lio i amelioration of prispit ,r^,e.abtme.ht : ;i .*p,«ldL t 'encefdrth be sivert- toperaone cohvicted >f offences which, ia the absence of nartial law, would hav<? r b£e.n^u6ishable fhndei- the criminal or cdm'rhoPla'Ws. \ Tho Nationalist press denounced these " ;egul4.tiphs, and GrifHths, -the Sinn Fein' »ader, ■ said that v tlte Siiitt .• Fejn^ - wouXdV thqm. -NtS TJoHticaF-prisohbi' would ■■ . iccept tlio status of a; criminal; and iffhis 'if e was forfeited m an attempt to compel lihft the Government \yould be guilty />f • muraer. -■ '. "' •:. ' "