IRELAND.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 16748, 25 May 1920, Page 3

IRELAND.

NEGOTIATIONS DENIED

A BISHOP’S WARNING

By Telegraph—Press Assn—Copyright

LONDON, May 24. Sir .Hamar Greenwood (Chief Secretary for Ireland) denies that the Government is negotiating with Sinn Fein.^ A Dublin message reports that largo' bodies of cavalry have taken up strategic positions, practically encircling the city. They also traverse the main roads throughout the night, accompanied by motor lorries with police and infantry. The Catholic Bishop of Ross warned Irish agriculturists against the agitation in Ireland aiming at the establishment of a workers' republic, which would deny tho right of private property. An example of this policy was afforded when Sinn Feiners seized a number of creameries in Limerick, which were renamed Soviet creameries. These were run for a week under the Irish Republican flag, and it was only when a wage dispute was settled that the owners were permitted to resume oc-cupation.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.