IRISH CRISIS

Wanganui Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 160725, 11 August 1920, Page 9

IRISH CRISIS

‘ MILITARY ACOTH By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright. Australian, and N.Z. Cable Association. Received—August U, 9.15 a an. , LONDON, August-10. Military armoured cars and cyclist patrols were unusually active in Dublin this morning searching for persons in connection with bonfires lighted in the .streets to celebrate Archbishop Mannix’s arrival. A number of men hanging around a fixe at St. Mary’s Abbey refused to disperse. Soldiers fired a volley, and a man named Farrell was killed and another wounded. TWO SOLDIERS SHOT DEAD. LONDON, August 10. Two soldiers were shot dead at Clonakility. ARCHBISHOP MANNIX’S WELCOME. LONDON, August 10, The public were excluded from Paddington railway station. Two priests and a dozen members of the Irish SelfDetermination League welcomed Archbishop Mannix. The latter proceeded to Nazareth House. ADDRESSES TO ARCHBISHOP.. Received August 11, 8 a.m. LONDON, August 9. The Self-Determination League's ad* dress to Archbishop Mannix says: “We gladly join, out brethren in Australia and America in honouring on© whose name will hold a foremost place in the record of illustrious priests and prelates, who rose in dark and evil days to right their native land." Another address extends the wannest greetings) te Archbishop Mannix on lauding on a hostile shore. The students of Maynooth College, while pre-testing against the Government’s methods, welcomed them as proof of the value of Archbishop Mannix’s services to Ireland and th© causa of democracy ,in Australia. The Evening Standard publishes a secret - Sian Pedn document containing resolution of Dail Ereann, empowering De Valera to spend half a million dollars in connection with the American Presidential campaign, and a million dollars to secure America’s yecognition of tlrb Irish Republic. It further resolved to appoint a diplomatic mission to Moscow.

A BANKRUPT CORPORATION REFUSED GRANTS BY GOVERNMENT. LONDON, August 10. A t a meeting of the Dublin Corporation it was announced that the Government had refused grants of £170,000 unless the Corporation prohibited the recognition’ of the Dail Eireann (the so-called Irish Parliament). The financial position of the Corporation is hopeless, and it must close the municipal institutions and sanatoria.