IRISH SITUATION.
THE POLICY- CF REPRISALS. Elec Tel ronyriirhi- c„iirit p M «- Assn. (Received Sept. 15, 2.20 p.m.) » LONDON. «ept. 13. The Times publishes a letter s 'gued b\ 13 distinguished intellectual publicists", including Sir Philip Gibbs, H. G. Wells. John Masefield and Gilbert Murray, protest'iit; against militarism m Ireland. The letter says that a sort of lynch law m force is applied not only to culprits but to villages and toAvns, 'soldiers and police making indiscriminate reprisals for the murders of police. The Govern- ! ment had failed to restrain or punish them, and has now issued an order forbidding coroners' inquests m nine counties, thus removing the last vestige of protection from the civilian population. — Times.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 15319, 15 September 1920, Page 6
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