“THE TERROR IN IRELAND."

New Zealand Tablet, 18 August 1921, Page 39

“THE TERROR IN IRELAND."

Ye {Catholic raid , May 28) have just received three booklets bearing the title— The Terror in Ireland: Murder, Outrage, and Intimidation. The text is reprinted from the Belfast Telegraph, and bears the imprint, ■ “YV. and G. Baird, Ltd., Belfast.” The text gives with lurid headings reports of “some terrible stories” from Ireland. But the incidents related refer mainly to the South and West. Tralee, Westmeath, Cork, Wexford, Mayo, Sligo, Kerry, Roscommon, and Tipperary are laid under contribution. Even Armagh and Tyrone are mentioned. But not a word about Belfast. Not a syllable regarding “The Terror in Ireland—murder, outrage, and intimidation,” as exemplified in the recent murder of the two brothers Duffiu (Catholics), shot dead in their house at Clonard Gardens, Belfast, by armed men “wearing trench coats”; nor the least hint regarding the assassination of Joseph Hayden at Rock, Co. Tyrone, and the attempted murder of his brother, Joseph, both attacked while asleep in their beds, the assailants being “men in uniform.”

•Me have a shrewd suspicion that this lavish dissemination of ex parte) tales of “The Terror in Ireland” is being paid for from Government funda > and consequently by taxpayers of all creeds and politics. The Coalition Ministry which placards Great Britain with partisan posters regarding the coal trouble, published in , the interests of the owners but partly paid for by the miners whom they traduce and prejudice, not merely arms the Carsonite specials to murder their Catholic neighbors in Ulster, but makes the survivors pay their quota towards the cost of blazoning throughout Great Britain gory tales of “The Terror in Ireland” in which the pro-Britons get the Worst of the play.