IRELAND.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 16608, 4 December 1919, Page 3

IRELAND.

REVOLUTIONARY OUTBREAK. EXPECTED ON ALL SIDES. By Telegraph—Press Assn. —Copyright. (RoceTVed Deo. 4, 8.55 a.m.) LONDON, Nov. 29. Everyone is alertly expecting a mild revolutionary outbreak in 4 Ireland. The authorities and tho majority of the people almost hope 4 tnat < the climax will come soon. Lives will be lost and destroyed but the outbreak fe whl mean that the extremists arc reaching the end ot their resources. The authorities have no doubt that there is a rift in the ranks of Simi Fein concerning the policy of outrage and murder. The moderates, at the recent meeting of Daii Irauu denounced the cowardly killing of policemen and the brutalities inflicted on women and old men in connection witli the searches for firearms. The Irish Volunteers now form a compact secret society. Four regiments, completely equipped and officered, exist in Dublin alniuq and the strength elsewhere is proportionate. Members aud officials of the Daile Iraim have been forced to. take the seditious oath prescribed for the volunteers. . , <■- The authorities believe tuat omn Fein, despite the buldgconing of the moderates is increasingly antagonistic to tho Labourites, fanners and small shopkeepers.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.