ARCHBISHOP MANNIX.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 16424, 12 May 1921, Page 8

ARCHBISHOP MANNIX.

LEAVES FOR AUSTRALIA. ENTERTAINED IN LONDON. By Telegraph—Prewi Association —Copyright. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Received May 12, 1.5 p-m.) LONDON, May 11. Large numbers of Irish priests and bishops came to London and were entertained by Archbishop Mannix at luncheon prior to his departure lor Australia on Saturday. -The priests presented Archbishop Mannix with gifts, including vestments. In replying, Archbishop Mannix said the British Government had endeavoured to put the people in one camp and the bishops and priests in another but all were united. He was not allowed to cisit Ireland because he refused to do the Government’s work there. The Government, in asking him to do its work, backed the wrong horse. He was taking a message to Australia that everything he had said and done before and since ho left Australia regarding Ireland was endorsed bv the cnrdinnlate. archbi«hops and priests. He war* aide to tell Australia that the crimes and outrages in Ireland must not be placed to the discredit of the Irish people- England could have peace in Ireland to-dav bv cessing B: itish crime and British aggression The Irrih people were a'-king nothing but what they were entitled to. They were asking for self-determination, to which nil unions, great and small, are entitled.