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Waikato Times, Volume 92, Issue 14368, 21 May 1920, Page 5

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IRISH AFFAIRS . MESSAGE FROM DE VALERA. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Assn.) Received May 21, 8.55 a.m. NEW YORK„May 20. De Valera, in a cable to Mr Arthur Griffith, Dublin, urges the Irish particularly .the women, to go to the polls at the elections next month to "expose the falsehood circulated by British propagandists that the desire to uphold the Irish Republic as weakening." ORDER TO BE RESTORED. EVERY RESOURCE TO BE USED. AN EMPHATIC DECLARATION. - (Australian and N.Z. Cable Assn.) Received May 21, 11.50 a.m. LONDON, May 19. Replying, to Lord Salisbury in the House of Lords, the Lord Chancellor emphatically declared that it was the policy of the Government, whether the struggle was short or long, to employ the whole of the available resources of Britain to restore law and- order in Ireland, and render the secessionary campaign now in progress utterly impossible. The forces of Britain were as deeply committed to carrying to success the Governments purpose in Ireland as they were to carrying out that purpose in the late war. If the troops now there were insulilcient more would be sent. The only limits 'would be the extent and degree of the crisis, and if the existing military formation was insufficient, the Government would not hesitate to ask the population of the country <to increase the forces as in the crisis of the war. —t NEW POLICY IN OPERATION. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Assn.) Received May 21, 9.20 a.m. LONDON, May 20. The new military policy is nfore and more evident in Ireland, where cavalry are increasingly active. Hussars are patrolling the hills outside Dublin, and others are at Wicklow. A naval brigade lias arrived at Skibberdeen, and further military detachments are arriving daily in the south-west, and are occupying' the police barracks.