IRELAND.

Timaru Herald, Issue 170307, 31 August 1920, Page 7

IRELAND.

MR McSWEENEY'S CONDITION. AROUSING WIDESPREAD INTEREST. , By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. Australian and N-Z. Cablt, Asan. LONDON, August 29. Inferosb in MeSweeney's condition is widespread. It is reported tjliat hj« is sinking and cannot last more than two or three days. _ Many temperate appeals to release him have been sent to fhe Government besides intemperate ones. A crowd outside the, City Hall at Cork await the latest bulletins regarding the prisoner. Numerous Masses are offered daily by many churches. Miss McSwccncy found her brother rapidly sinking 'to-day, and declares that ho may die at- any moment. It is generally believed that his deatli will intensify the Irish bitterness. A good deal of pressure is "doing exerted on the Government, especially by a certain section of the Liberal Press, for clemr-ucy to MeSweeney. The "Yorkshire Post" points ' out to the Catholic Church that it i s a .sinister sign that suicide is bciug raised to a national cult, but cannot think that the clergy's Sinn Fein sympathisers will lead them to condone suicide or the use of organised suicide as a political weapon. Other papers point out that while it is reassuring to find Ireland moved at the prospect, of a man's death, the record of "brutal murders of past weeks seemed to indicate that Ireland is indifferent to the fate of victims. SERIOUS RIOTING. The Cameron Highlanders broke barracks, and proceeded to avenge the .death of their comrade, wrecking the shops in the principal streets of Queenstown. Officers gat the men in hand after they had done considerable damage Rioting continued in Belfast last night. Six persons were shot dead and over fifty wounded. Armoured cars were used in firing on the mobs. CARDINAL LOGUE. DENOUNCES WAR ON POLICEMEN. Received 8.35 p.m.. August. 30th. LONDON, August 20. Cardinal Logue.-in a letter condemning an attack on the police at Dnndalk, in which one was killed and two dangerously wounded, says: "No end. however 'ligh, no plea., however plausible, could justify such an outrage. I kno.v that the poor victim who has gone to eternity was a, good and upright man, who never gave offence to anyone in the discharge of his duty, I may be. told that it, is an act of war; that it is lawful to shoot at sight anyone wearing a policeman's uniform. I prefer to call it by the term cool deliberate murder. Anyone who pla-ns, encourages, abets, -even sympathises with, such acts, participates in their guilt- before God. I am reminded 'ov anonymous correspondents that there are worse faults on the other side. I know there arc. I denounce and condemn them most heartily. We are living under a. harsh, oppressive and tyrannical regime of militarism and brute force which invites, stimulates, and nourishes crime. But crime does not excuse crime % We must ,not do wrong, because others do." ; ' ', ■.- DEATHS FROM RIOT. Two men wounded in the Belfast riots have succumbed in hospital.