IRISH TROUBLES.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XLV, Issue 11931, 30 October 1919, Page 5

IRISH TROUBLES.

United Pres 3 Association —By Electric Telegraph —Copyright. London, Oct. 27.

The Daily Express, in publishing the results of a special investigation of the conditions in Ireland, declares that the apathetic British public may receive any day a shock more startling than anything in the past, including the murders of Lord Cavendish and Mr Burke. Tho organisation behind the present day crimes is infinitely more powerful than all the former organisations. Not a single private person outside Ulster dare lift a finger iu aid of justice. The Government finds the military weapon too clumsy arid dangerous except for use in the last extremity. It io a splendid force of 11,000 police that is authority's last bulwark, and against which the Sinn Fein is concentrating the bitterest vendetta, with the intention of demoralising its members. Their Republican proclamations treat the police as outlaws and pariahs. Every wearer of the King's uniform is lialfte to be murdered on sight. People generally obey the Sinn Fein and shun and boycott the police, whose families are banned. Even policemen's sweethearts are maltreated, their hair being sometimes cut off.