UNREST IN IRELAND.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 46, Issue 14100, 19 April 1920, Page 6

UNREST IN IRELAND.

FURTHER OUTRAGES. (By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) LONDON, Saturday. Constable Henison, who was shot by masked men, is dead. Ln obedience to yesterday s manifesto, no butter, pigs, or bacon have been offered for export from Dublin. One hundred and twenty thousand transport workers have been instructed to strike immediately goods are tendered loi

export. erowd at the Limerick railway station stoned the police who were escorting the mails. The police fired, slightly wounding several. Forty men, armed with Hurleys, held up a mail car at Charleville, in the County of Limerick, and seized the mails.' They then allowed the driver to proceed. Sir Haimir Greenwood, the new Chief Secretary for Ireland, in an interview, said he was going to Ireland, as all his life he had been convinced that. Home Rule was the desire of the people, and he wished to appeal to the moderate Irish opinion to help the Government in an earnest and sympathetic desire to settle the It'ish problem. He believed that a vast majority of Irishmen were opposed to violence, and the whole empire was opposed to the establishment of an independent Republic. Captain White, a son of the lato Fold-Marshal White, was hunger-strik-ing" for four days in Mount joy .Prison. He says lie is not in favour of resorting to physical force on behalf of Sum Peinism. , A Coroner's jury at Cork returned a verdict of murder against M,r Lloyd George for the death of Maccurtam Foley, an ex-soldier, who joined the Irish Constabulary when be wax demobilised, and who was found dead la a creamery yard at Tralee. Thei were twenty-six bullet wounds m hm bodv. Foley had been blindfolded, and his hands tied behind him. HUNGER-STRIKERS RELEASED. LONDON, Saturday. AH the original Mountjoy hungerstrikers have now been released. POLICY OF CONCILIATION. LONDON, Thursday. The “Daily Mail” states that the release of the hunger-strikers marks the beginning of an entire change m policy, the first signs of which were the appointment of Sir Hamar Greenwood and General Sir Neville Mac-ready. The Premier gave Sir Neville M«u?eady a free hand to initiate a conciliatory i“ gime. The resignation of discount French is now expected.