IRELAND.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 145045, 22 July 1916, Page 3

IRELAND.

GENERAL MAXWELL’S ; DISPATCH. " ■WHY THE REBELS SLC- ■ DEEDED, By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright, Australian and. N.Z. Cable Assn. (Received July 22, 8 a.m.) LONDON, July 21. General Maxwell’s dispatch on , the Irish rebellion attributes the facility with which the Sinn Feiners were able to seize so many important points in Dublin as due to the fact that, armed bodies of civilians were continually allowed to parade and march in the streets of Dublin and throughout the county without interference, so that the movement of large civilian forces on a holiday passed unnoticed. During the whole fighting 17 officers were, killed and 46 wounded, in : otherranks 89 were killed and 228 wounded. General Maxwell pays a high tribute to the behaviour of the troops in carrying out disagreeable and distasteful ■duties. Ho emphasises the fact that tile responsibility for the loss of life and destruction of property rests on those engineering the revolt, who invited the assistance and co-operation of Germans.

, MR. REDMOND’S PROTEST. . AT THE DELAY IN ACTION. . LONDON, July 20. . Mr. Redmond, on Tuesday, sent the following memorandum to Mr; xVsquith and Air. Lloyd George: “1 feel-bound to tell you that the long delajfjnljriaking public the’text of the Irisfryßillj and. tho uncertainty and caused by Lord Lansddwne’s speech, have created a most serious situatiojrin Ireland. My opinion isthat further-delay will make a settlement on the-lines'laid ■ down by Mr. Lloyd George'.‘quite impossible. When the terras were originally submitted, we strongly urged tho use of alh possible dispatch,vih consulting supporters in Ireland.- Wc were told that a great Imperial interest was at stake. ' Three wseks.hliavo sinco elapsed and,no progress haCheeipmade. For. some mysterious rcasonytho matter, which was so urgent-JrwF weeks ago, hangs fife. L therefor<y3l£gc upon the Government that further delay will be fatal, and record my conviction, that any proposal to depart from tho-terms agreed upon, especially in respect of the ' strictly temporary provisional,character of all sections of the Bill, will compel us to declare that the agreement; on tho faith of which wc obtained the, assent of our supporters is -Ireland, has been departed from and was at an end.”

OBJECTIONS OF ULSTER NATIONALISTS. . ; LONDON, July.2o. A large meeting of .Derry,, , Tyrone aiid Fermanagh Nat ionalists/passed a resolution opposing tho exclusion of tho 1 Ulster counties and declaring that if a. separate Goveniinent were established they would resist its authority. - Tho Roman Catholic Bishop .of, Dorry wrote approving of tho resolutions; , ,