IRELAND.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume XXI, 20 November 1920, Page 2

IRELAND.

AN EYE FOR AN EYE.”

REPRISALS COMPARED WITH CHRISTIANITY.

[Per Press Association—Copyright-]

[Australian and N.Z. Cable Assn.] Received this day: 9.35 a.m. LONDON, yesterday. Mr Asquith was entertained at luncheon at the National Liberal Club. He Said that during' the last six months Ireland had iteen m a state of civil War. The blind truth was that since the establishment, of the policy of reprisals, British justice had been placed in the'background and violence enthroned. The Executive had allowed iteeif and its servants to become the ministers of a policy of blind, pitiless and indiscriminate revenge. The Government’s system o f administration was not only coait'rary- to the fundamental principles of litterty, but to the best traditions of a civilisation whlieh was Chiistiaiiity.