THE CRISIS IN IRELAND

Wanganui Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 160639, 4 May 1920, Page 3

THE CRISIS IN IRELAND

more hunger strikers released. A BISHOP’S WARNING.; ' Assn. —May 3, 12.45 p.m, LONDON, May 2. Thirty-four more Sinn Fein hunger-strikers in Belfast gaol have been released, also seven at Wormwood Scrubbs.

Bishop Cohalan writes to the Dublin newspapers protesting against military raids and deportations of men without trial. He also warns Irishmen against the false theory that police may be shot because they are in an enemy power’s army. "Let there be no mistake; killing a policeman is murder.” Mr Sexton, a member of the House of Commons, speaking at the May Day gathering at St. Helens, also Mr Clynes, speaking at Manchester, were hissed, hooted and refused a hearing owing to the unsympathetic attitude of the House of Commons to the Sinn Fein hun-ger-strikers.

KIDNAPPED MEN TO BE DEPORTED BY SINN FETNERS. LONDON, May 2, Sinn Feiners tried the six kidnapped men and sentenced them to deporta tion. It is reported that the Sinn Feiners intend to execute the sentence, but are keeping the seaport secret. TEJRROEISATION OF LANDLORDS. LONDON, May 2. The Times’ Dublin correspondent depicts an alarming growth of land agitation in the west of Ireland. In County Clare the date of the renewal of grazing agreements was marked by lawlessness and cattle-driving and the terrorisation of landlords by nocturnal fires, shootings, destruction of fences, and compelling the forcible surrender of land. Other landlords are protected by the military, who are camping on their lands. Large and small landlords are equally suffering. It is openly boasted that the coming land fight will be the biggest ever seen in Ireland. The problem is intensified by ih© large number of agriculturists, who are unable to emigrate and cannot find an outlet for their energies.