THE WAR IN IRELAND.
GOVERNMENT'S REPRESSIVE MEASURES. SO SECTARIAN PREFERENCE. (Electric Telegraph.—Copyright). (Received This ilay, 8.40 a.m.) LONDON, July 26. In the House of Commons, in reply ja a motion’ by Mr Devlin for an adiourumoi't to call attention to events j n Uihast and the failure of the government to protect Catholics, Sir Rainar Greenwood said the soldiers and the police would deal with the mobs, whether Protestant or Catholics. exactly alike. There were five battalions of infantry in Belfast and jb rcC others were available if rertin ; V I hi] s were near by and lloli police. The Government had done everything possible, and had prevented one of the greatest catastrophes that could have befallen Ireland in the shape of a massacre of thousands "”.l a devastating civil wr He emphatically refused to acwnt a suggestion that reprisals had b co n part i t the Government’s policy. Tbc police and the military had shown 11,. .•••• artiality.—(Reuter).
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Waipawa Mail, Volume XXXVII, Issue 8362, 28 July 1920, Page 3
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