GANGSTERS IN IRELAND
BISHOP STERNLY CONDEMNS REPUBLICAN ARMY. WOMEN KILLED & CHILDREN INJURED. APPLICATION OF BOLSHEVIK METHODS. (Received Thursday, 5.5 p.m.) LONDON, May 2. Bishop O’Doherty, speaking in Galway, declared that the Republican Army was creating gangsters similar to those of Chicago. The Saor Eire was applying Bolshevik methods to the salvation of Ireland. He warned his hearers fTiat they were committing a grievous sin if they belonged to the Republican Army, which should proclaim a Republic at an election if it wanted it. The hugger-mugger of secretly armed gunmen was iniquitous, he said, “because arms were employed for intimidation, private vengeance and armed robbery. Was it patriotism to kill poor women in the debris of their own houses and to injure little -boys playing In the street?
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Wairarapa Age, 4 May 1934, Page 5
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