The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1922-09-11
WOMEN ARE BLAMED
FOR IRISH FIGHTING
Bishop Turner, Back From
War Zone, DeplOres Skirted
Irregulars in Ranks.
ADVISES NO MORE DOLES
Soldiers Misled by Leaders,
Says Buffalo Churchman-
Sees Peace Soon.
ADVISES NO MORE DOLES

| Ireland will soon realize all her hopes
Of free. peaceful and prosperous coun-
try. according to the Right Rev. William
Turner. Bishop of Buffalo, who returned
yesterday from Ireland on board the
steamship Adriatic of the White Star
Line, after having spent two months
within 200 yards of where much Of the
| fighting between the Free State troops
and the 'irregulars." ss he called the
Republican forces. Bishop Turner. a
friend of the late canon De Valera.
said that he would strongly advise Irish
persons in this country to stop sending
any further contributions to the cause
of the Republicans. which. to quote him.
rs doomed. and In its latest phase Is
nothing but looting. wanton destruction
and II reports are true deliberate
murder"
III IS the woman In the ranks OF the
irregulars who Is causing the trouble.
he said. and he expressed regret that
Mrs. MacSwiney was permitted to ar
rive here last week. Countess Georgiana
Markievicz is walking up and down
the streets of Dublin aggravating the
afficiais of the Government in the hope
that she may be arrested on some pre-
text and then become a martyr"
Bishop Turner said. The fighting will
soon be over in Ireland he predicted,
as the days OF the irregulars are num-
bered. and they cannot hold out against
| the organized forces of the Free State
much longer.
Penned In by Fighting.
For two weeks Bishop Turner. who
was visiting his sister at Kilmalloch.
where he was born, could not leave the
house as the irregulars and Free Staters
fought. Shells. bombs and rifle bullets
struck the house and shattered the win
dows. Each morning he said mass for
those irregulars who were able to leave
their posts at machine gun nests and
during the day he cared for many
wounded. His brother. the Rev. John
F. Turner. who returned with the Bishop,
went out into the thick of the fight to
give consolation and aid to the wounded
and dying.
England and Ireland have become
closer TO each other since the trouble
and the death of Griffith and Collins
than ever before. Bishop Turner said.
THE soul of Ireland is still right
Bishop Turner said. There has been a
notable absence Of crime in the proper
sense of the word. Whatever outrages
have been committed have been military
and political.
Provisionnls Are Strong.
To-day the position of the Provisional
Government is still stronger The mill
tary system of the Republicans was
broken when the Free Staters took Cork.
The Government troops are in possession
of every important town and city
throughout the whole territory of the
Free State. and the irregulars are
browe up into little bands. who with
rifle. bomb and machine gun are doing
! all they can to annoy the Government
and the civil population. If vote were
taken now % per cent. of the people Of
Ireland would show they were for the
present Government especially since the
death of Michael Collins.
| or the irregular troops the Bishop
said:
please make II clear that the rank
| and file of these men. and I met and
talked with many Of them are fine
young fellows. msled by a few leaders,
who put their ambitions. jealousies.
hatreds and resentments before their
love for Ireland.
England far from having lost Ire
| land, has won II and is less hated than
ever in the whole history of her rela-
tons to 1t. Ireland means to carry out
the treaty. and England with admirable
courage and forbearance is willing to
wait and deal fairly with ireland to
the end. In this respect England has
shown herself far more patient with
Ireland than many of the American
people have
| Bishop Turner will remain at the
Hotel Pennsylvania and will go to Buff
/ falo in a day or two