ST. PATRICK'S DAY RESOLUTION

New Zealand Tablet, 10 March 1921, Page 26

ST. PATRICK'S DAY RESOLUTION

We suggest the following formula for the resolution to bo adopted at all St, Patrick’s Day .meetings this year: Whereas, not only (he Irish Bishops but independent Am- - erican and English Commissions of Inquiry have proved that brutal atrocities are being systematically perpetrated by the British forces on the men, women, and children of Ireland : and whereas, . American and English Commissions have urged the British Government to grant to the Irish people the right of self-determination, in accordance with the War Aims of the Allies; it is Resolved, That this mass-meeting of the peonle of Dunedin condemn the frightfulness of the army of occupation in Ireland, and demand that the British Government withdraw its armed forces, and honor its own pledges to the soldiers who died for the freedom of small nations, by allowing the Irish people to govern themselves according to their own wishes without outside interference.