SINN FEIN.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 16359, 23 February 1921, Page 8

SINN FEIN.

CROWN REPRISALS. INFORMATION REQUIRED* DEBATE IN THE HOUSE OF LORDS. Australia.?* and N.Z. Cable Association. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. (Received February 23, 1.15 p.m.) LONDON, February 22. In the House of Lords the Archbishop of Canterbury initiated a debate calling attention to the absence of detailed official information regarding Crown reprisal a in Ireland, which was shaking the allegiance of law-abiding people in Britain. Hq spoke for the many who condemned, in the strongest terms, the Sinn Fedn campaign of murder and outrage. “The people of Britain,*’ he paid. “ are bewildered with regard to Irish affairs to-day. It is not a matter of politics,. but of the ethics of tho ordinary abiding principles of right and wrong ip public affairs. It is impossible to justify punishing wrong by committing it yourself. By callingin the «id of tho devil you cannot cast out devils.** SHOOTING OF A CONSTABLE TEN YEARS’ PENAL SERVITUDE. Aatfenrifan atsd N.Z. Cabla Association. (Received February 23, 1.10 p.m.) LONDON, February 22. Flynn was sentenced to ten years* penal servitude for shooting a constable at Salford, on January 3. (The shooting occurred in connection with tho Sinn Fein outrages in England).