IRELAND'S PEACE.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume XXI, 9 August 1921, Page 4

IRELAND'S PEACE.

TRUCE DENOUNCED. ■ Per Press Association—Co,cyi( LONDON, Align Provincial members of the M publican Army are urging then ate denunciation of tho truce, pi Dublin Castle’s detention of Jld A TEST CASE. LONDON, Auga * The “Daily Express” Dublin spondent says that the Dail B Cabinet states authoritatively I McKeown is not released the tra be terminated. Telegrams bin exchanged between the Sier audiorities and the British umea A special courier despatched! Lloyd George by a prominent Hl of the Sinn Fein Cabinet says th English Government has taken fi portunity of raising a test casei most pointed fashion by .>is» Keown a convicted murderer, evidence at the trial did not fl a reason for describing him mi derer—on the cjjntrary, metis the Crown Force testified to hit airy to the foe. The “Daily News” says: “Its that McKeown is tho only mu»l the Dail Eireann iwho has ben victed of murder, yet it is imposi deny that others now being K could have been charged with I instead of being charged with concerned with ambushes.

‘ “The point is that tho truce a circumstances under which it • ranged between General Mac™ the chiefs of the Irish Republics involved the full recognition status of tho Republican ionn combatant army. The Goveni insistence on its right to hang is a reversion to tho theory of ® der gang in its crudest form. I body lias blundered. There is ■ now to inquire who, or whfevents may soon be swept boF power of our control. Let tho I bo admitted, and the thundcr-d* be dispersed. McKeown was to death on June 14, and thcF is still unconfirmed.”