SITUATION IN IRELAND

Waikato Times, Volume 93, Issue 14493, 16 October 1920, Page 7

SITUATION IN IRELAND

ONLY TWO PARTIES. MR ASQUITH'S ACTION CONDEMNED. STRICTURES BY SIR B. CARSON. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Assn.) Received October 15, 8.30 p.m. CONDON, October 14. Sir Edward Carson, in a speech at the Constitutional Club, said that there would be only two parlies' In future—those who desired to maintain the existing constitution and [hose who desired to subvert it. Mr Asquith, at Ireland'3 most critical moment, was attempting to minimise the efforts towards a solution. There was no use in mincing words. A man who did that for party purposes was a traitor to his country.

MR ASQUITH SPEAKS OUT. ADMINISTRATION DENOUNCED. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Assn.) Received October 15, 7.45 p.m. LONDON, October 14. Mr Asquith, addressing the Scottish ! Liberal Federation, at Ayr, stated that ! it was the meanest calumny to say that '..hose like himself who denounced the present administration of Ireland were responsible for the existing iinarchy. The administration in Ireland was unequalled in any civilised society, and notwithstanding his flippancies and brutalities, Mr Lloyd I George could not divert attention from this outstanding fact. The increased record of crime and reprisals amounted to iinarchy. and it whs a disgrace, not only to the Government and the head of the Government, but to the country as a whop'. The Government's policy was the policy'of despair. MR ASQUITH'S SCHEME. COMPLETE AUTONOMY. POLITICAL AND FINANCIAL. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Assn.) Received October 15. 9 p.m. LONDON, October 14. Mr Asquith, in a speech this evening, advocated dominion home rule for Ireland, with complete administrative and legislative independence in local affairs, and absolute financial autonomy. He saw nothing to prevent the giving of autonomy. Irishmen would not quit the empire, 'because that would reduce Ireland to national insignificance. Mr Asquith denied emphatically that the military police reprisals were for outrages committed on them. Parliament should demand a thorough and impartial inquiry. They were, not in any sense acts of defence, but acts of blind, indiscriminate vengeance. There was no parallel for such a stale of affairs, unless the work of the Germans in Belgium. THE NEWROSS EXPLOSION. NINE PEOPLE KILLED. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Assn.) LONDON, October 14. Nine people arc dead as a result of the Newross explosion. ARMOURED CAR ATTACKED. IN A DUBLIN STREET. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Assn.) Received October 15, 7.30 p.m. LONDON, October 1 i. An armoured r-.w stopped in Phileboro Street. Dublin, while the officer entered the bank. Three men attacked the crew with revolvers, wounding a soldier. His comrades killed one assailant, and the others escaped. While the troops were seeking these, a crowd gathered, and the troops were obliged to Are, killing three anil wounding thirty. SINN FEINN LOAN. £371,800 SUBSCRIBED. Received October 10, 9.30 a.m. LONDON. October 15. The Sinn Fein leaders stab 1 that at the end of September the Sinn Fein loan reached £371,800.