IRELAND

Southland Times, Issue 18985, 20 November 1920, Page 5

IRELAND

THE SITUATION IMPROVING. SINN FEIN LOSING SYMPATHY. EVERY WEAPON FAILING. (By Telegraph.—Press Assn. —Copyright.) (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) LONDON, November 17. Evidence confirmatory of recent Ministerial statements regarding an improvement in the situation in Ireland is disclosed in a captured Sinn Fein army order urging the immediate construction of secret dugouts in Tipperaiy area for men on the run. It points out that the accommodation and hospitality hitherto freely given these men by farmers and others is not now forthcoming, thus showing the increased efficiency of the police activities and the widespread withdrawal of sympathy from the operations of the Sinn Fein murder gang. Meanwhile the Sinn Fein courts have practically disappeared, while the ordinary work of the High Court and County Courts is increasing. Local authorities who refused to sub. Mit their books to the Government auditor are now reversing the decision owing to the Government withholding grants. The hunger-strike tveapon has failed. For every j barrack burned the police may now commandeer the most suitable house in the district, and it is often one owned and occupied by a leading Sinn Feiner. SINN FEIN COMMANDER’S PROPOSAL. POISONING OF MILK AND INFECTION OF HORSES. THE INDEPENDENT LIBERALS. LONDON, November 18. (Received November 19, 8 p.m.) In the House of Commons Sir Hamar Greenwood read a secret document from the commander-in-chief of the Irish Republican army to the chief of staff, suggesting infections with typhoid germs of the milk supplied to the military and also footing horses with glanders. The document was found among the chief of staffs p.-qv- -= during a military raid. Two we’’.-known banking officials have been crowd as a consequence of recent raids on G. bfin banks. Captc'- Chambers was among the four officers kidnapped at Waterfall. He was the chief witness in the court-martial of Father O'Connell. After an address by Mr Asquith the Independent Liberal members of the House of Commons passed a resolution endorsing Mr Asquith’s policy on Dominion Home Rule for Ireland “including as it does adequate safeguards for the strategic security of the United Kingdom and protection of minorities.” This formula is expected to stop the discontent in Liberal circles arising from Mr Asquith’s recent speeches in Ireland. FOUR MURDERS AT CORK. LONDON, November 19. (Received November 19, 11.35 p.m.) Four murders occurred in Cork last night following Seageant O’Donoghue’s murder. The Sinn Feiners assert that they were the work of Black and Tans, but some doubt this, as Dublin Castle says it was the work of men masquerading in British uniforms and some of the dead have been friendly with the police.