Ireland.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXXI, Issue 43, 9 September 1920, Page 5

Ireland.

MCSWINEY’S CASE. ¥ WILL NOT BE RELEASED. Press Association—Copyright, Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Received 10.50 a.m.) London, September 8, It is officially announced that Cabinet ha® decided not to release McSwiney. ' WORKERS EXPELLED. London, September 7. Mr Devlin is negotiating with the Government in connection with the distress is Belfast through the expulsion of a large number of Catholic workers, especially shipyard employees. The Government has decided to pay expelled workers an unemployment benefit. SINN FEIN AND REPUBLICAN ARMY.

PREMIER MAKES DISTINCTION MEAN MURDEROUS WARFARE. i' Press Association—Copyright, Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Received 12.45 p.m.) London, September 8. Some papers are publishing denials of Mr Lloyd George’s offer regarding McSwiney. Others repeat and amplify them. In the course of a statement to British journalists the Premier stated that McSwiney was undoubtedly concerned in conspiring against the Government, which resulted in the murder of eighty-five brave, devoted men and the shooting at of 178 others. He differentiated between the Sinn Fein, which was not a criminal organisation, and iihe sc+. called republican army; which was striving, .to dismember the 7 Empire. The Government eifher must protect ,its ; .forces in .. Ireland ,or withdraw them. ’ A policy of IcAiericy Bad already been tried twice, but the very men released had immediately engaged in fresh conspiracies and recommenced murders' of police in Ireland. Mr Lloyd George strongly emphasised that the republican army was engaged in a mean, murderous warfare upon the British forces, seeking by carefully 'planned anarchy and murder to bring about Hie secession of Ireland 1 from the Empire... People throughout the world must realise that the British Government was face to face with the same problem as Lincoln was before the American Civil'War, although the Southerners fought openly and cleanly for secession, while the Irish sought it by murder. • If the republican army conspiracy; ‘in which McSwiney was involvedj had existed during wartime it would i probably have been impossible td 'hftifc overcome the submarine menatA* with tjhe, ( pe.snlt that the"EmpirerjW9Jil^ 0 baye, been destroyed, ‘ 1 1,-: |, r ~r;. :