REVOLT IN IRELAND.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 46, Issue 14200, 26 August 1920, Page 5

REVOLT IN IRELAND.

RIOTING AT LISBURN. POLICE AND MILITARY POWERLESS. (By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) (Received Thursday, 9.1,5 a.m<-) LONDON, Wednesday. Rioting at Lisburn continued througliout. the nighl. The military and police were unable to coj.ie with the situation. 'lncendiarism was resumed this morning, several buildings being aflame. A man was burned to death during tlie destruction of a boot factory. The damage is estimated at £500,000. . The Irish Peace Conference has opened in Dublin. It is being largely attended by Irish peers and prominent industrial representatives. * It is believed that expert gunmen from America arc responsible for many of the recent police murders in Ireland, including that of Swanzy. COMPOSITION OP PEACE CONFERENCE; (Received Thursday, 9.20 a.m.) LON DON, Wednesday. Members Of the Irish Peace Conference are ehielly Nationalists and.. Southern .Unionists. A number are inlluentiai'-men', - but they atteiided as--, intli.yiiiuffls.; without;; mandates. . , p , ... Lord MaellonneU , nioved the -jm.nc.j-. j»al resolution in flivoiir “'of full selfgovernment, with- iidfriiriistrativc liscaiand and special treatment’ for Ulster. Another resolution was , &lso ■ carried,, urging the Coverijiuent | .tp, s ,adopt' rs !r po'l-, icy of amnesty in order "to .secure a more favourable athlosjlhefe. v /' ■ Lord'- Bif, .'Thomas ’.Es--nionde, M.P., Mr Stephen. G Wynne,. M.P.j and Sir, Horace ■ , Plunkett -. were ; among those who spoke./ : RELEASE OF McSWINEY URGED. (Received Thursday, 9.50 a.m.) LONDON, Wednesday. " Tlie Dublin Peace Coufore.nce passed a r esolut io u, by. .accl am afi on at rg trtg r ttia t* the Government immediately release McSwiney. SINN FEIN DEMONSTRATION. (Received Thursday, 9.20> a.m.) LONDON, Tuesday. Sevei;al thousand Sinn Fein sympathisers gathered outside the Brixton Prison where the Lord Mayor of Cork who is said to l>e dying ,is imprisoned. The.ct-pwd booed the. Government and made ugly rnyhes upon the police, who used their; Batons freely. A number of arrests were made. Dublin Castle, -denies that the constabulary ' showed want of discipline, and explains .that the ■ meeting at : the Dublin Barracks, was confined to .expressions of indignation at the assassination of the comrades of the policemen.

(A cablegram- yesterday stated: A party of the Irish Constabulary in the Dublin depot refused to handle arms, saying that they did not wish, to- be used as a military body to put do.wn the political opinion of the . people. They were told that , the matter would

be inquired into. Tho Constabulary then took off their uniforms, donned civilian' clhthCs, and left the barracks.)