REVOLT IN IRELAND.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 46, Issue 14240, 21 October 1920, Page 5

REVOLT IN IRELAND.

FITZGERALD’S DEATH. VERDICT OF COURT OF ENQUIRYPress Association—Electric Telegraph—Copyright (.Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) (Received Thursday, 8.55 a.m.) LONDON, Wednesday. The Cork Court of Enquiry returned a verdict that Fitzgerald, the hungerstriker who died, was of sound mind and deliberately killed himself. FITZGERALD’S FUNERAL. FOLLOWERS RESTRICTED. LONDON, Wednesday. During u requiem mass for the hun-ger-striker Fitgerald, a military officer with a drawn revolver and a file of armed soldier's approached the altar and warned the canon that more than a hundred persons would not be allowed •• to follow the coffin to the grave. Later the officer megaphoned to the crowd stating that he had orders to fire if the order were disobeyed. He • intended to use force .if necessary. The crowd complied with the order.

QUESTIONS IN COMMONS,

LONDON, Tuesday

A series of questions was asked in. the House of Commons regarding Ireland. !

Sir Hamar Greenwood, Chief Secretary, stated that since the New Year a. hundred polieo and eighteen soldicra had been killed, and 160 police and 6t> soldiers wounded. There had been 667 attacks on barracks. The Government’s methods in coping with the outrages were . steadily improving. The Irish Constabulary was rapidly increasing, owing # the recruiting of exofficers and ex-soldiers. Mr Edward Shortt said the Government declined to release McSwiney. He said the prison authorities administered no food to him. Mr Bonar Law stated that the Government intended proceeding with the Home Rule Bill.

.Mr Malone interjected: “In the meantime is it the Government's policy to continue tho campaign of fnurder reprisals?" (Coalition uproar.) ' Mr Bonar Law: “It is the policy of the Government in the meantime to put down murder and outrage." (Coalition cheers.) TWO SINN FEINERS SHOT. LONDON, Tuesday. Uniformed men .took two Sinn Feiners, brothers, from their home in Tipperary, and shot them ‘dead in the presence of relatives. * ; STATEMENT BY BISHOPS. (Received Thursday, 0.10 a.m.) LONDON, Wednesday, The Irish bishops at Maynooth bavo issued a statement that “where terrorism 3 partiality and failure to apply tho principles of Government are rampant, it is impossible to uphold fi the law of God. On a scale truly appalling must bo reckoned countless indiscriminate raids, arrests in the darkness of the night, prolonged imprisonment without trial, savage sentences from tribunals that do not command, and do not deserve, confidence, the burning of houses and crops, and the destruction of industries to pave the way for famine by men maddened with plundered drink, and the flogging and the massacres of civilians, all perpetrated by the forces of the Crown." .

Referring to Ulster, the Bishops say: ‘ ‘ The plausible sentiment about, not eoereing Ulster is founded on a false pretence which if pressed will, w r e warn the Government, bring the danger of a bitter and prolonged civil strife."