CRUCIFIXION OF IRELAND.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 16360, 24 February 1921, Page 7

CRUCIFIXION OF IRELAND.

TO THE EDITOR. Sir, —.Mr J. Devlin, in the House of Commons, taunted the British Government with being unable to fight the army of peasant boys fairly. These peasant boys* of course, arc innocent and harmless lads, who would no more drag a wounded man out of a hospital and murder him than they would swat n fly. It is disgusting to read the proSinn Fein stuff served up bj r Asquith and his followers, who rage furiously whenever a Sinn Feiner is hurt, and are silent when British soldiers aro callously and cruellv murdered. Too many people are silent when British troops are ambushed, and break into furious invective when the ambushers are beaten at their own game. They reserve their horror for reprisals, and regard murder and arson as legitimate warfare when they are perpetrated by trish assassins- Tn an Australian paper I read that the outrages in Ireland from January, 1919, to February 5, 1921, included the destruction of 70 courthouses and 535 police barracks, the tilling of 224 policemen and 57 solfliers and the wounding of 330 policemen fend 143 soldiers. “ Peasant boys,” infleed ! Is it any wonder that the British troops have turned on these wolves, Mid put them on the run? There is a lot of maudlin and sentimental rubbish talked about the Irish, and to talk about the "crucifixion of Ireland” is bunkum- People who make murder Mid fire their weapons in a cause which khould bo a sacred on© don’t get my sympathy.—l am, etc.. ENGLISHMAN.