The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1922-03-24
IRISH SITUATION
GROWSIN TENSITY
RIVAL FACTIONS APPEAR
MORE WARLIKE
Vast Majority Irishmen All Par
ties Deplore Danger But Seem
Unable To Avert It; Along
Derry Donegal Border Trench
es Are Being Dug Across
Roads.
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Dublin, March PIT was Of
hcia'Iy announced in the repub-
lican organ here today that the
Irish republican army eonvsn-
ton, the holding Of which was
recently forbidden by Arthur
Griffith, president of the Dali
Eireann, would be held in Dub
lin Sunday, as arranged. The
announcement 10 taken here to
mean that q definite split in the
republican has come.
Belfast, March 22.-There has
been marked activity by the VI
ster special eonstables in the
Derry district since yesterday,
Aiono the Derry Donegal border
they have blocked q number of
trenches across them.
London, March %. - The
British government may have to
consider whether IS may be pos
sible to draw q Gordon of imper-
iaI troops between the warning
elements on the Ulster frontier,
Winston Churchill. the colonial
secretary stated in the House of
Commons today.
London, March 22.-The situation
on the border between Ulster anc
Southern Ireland is going from bac
to worse and is such that some trif
ling incident may draw the riva
forces into 4 conflict which Will
shatter all prospects of peace in
Ireland, says the Dublin correspon-
dent or the Times.
"The tragic irony Of the situa.
ton" he adds, consists in the faci
that the vast majority of 1rishmer
of all parties deplore the danger but
seem unable to avert II.
Each side daily takes some
measure of defense which 1t regards
as legitimate but which produces
prompt retaliation from the Other
side, with the result that political
passions are intensified and the
pleadings of common sense fail tt
find hearing.
"The chief cause Of resentment or
the northern side Of the border Is
the existence there of organized
forces OF the Irish republican army
which the northern parliament in
sist must depart or be expelled be-
fore there can any talke of peace
Can't Trust Northern Police.
: ION the other hand the southern
nationalists claim the right to pro-
tect the Catholic minorities In the
northeast by every means in then
power. They believe the northern
police cannot be trusted to act i'm
partially. The southern newspaper
print daily reports OF outrages II
which these police are alleged con
cerned.
While the north refuses to be.
lieye order ever viii DO maintained
in the south, the attitude Of ethel
side is looked upon by the writer AZ
pregnant with a Thousand menace:
Of disaster. He contends that the
only thing necessary to avert Gala
nifty is a frank exchange Of views
by the two governments, but this
has not yet been attempted. He
says the situation is grave enough
to Justify a meeting of al, the mem
bers OF both governments, or, If this
cannot be arranged, a conference
between Michael Collins and Sil
James Craig. Moderate opinion II
Dublin Is represented as most anxi'
GUS for such conference.
Shipping Activities Going On
Belfast, March 23.-Desuitory fir
ing continued all day yesterday
from the free state side Of the Dor
der, along the frontier Of Counties
Tyrone and Monaghan, betweer
Aughnacloy and Caledon, rmosn,
from snipers located in houses in
side the boundary line, according
to reports from the border receiV'
ed today.
The Ulster border commission
ers last evening visited the localit,
where the sniping activities were II
progress and heard the shooting
going on during a visit to Ballagt
bridge, which divides the two couI
ties, while Captain Thompson AMI
Head Constable Hall of the Caledor
platoon reconnoitsrtng near thu
border, became targets for thu
shippers on the other side.
Other officers were similarly sx
posed while proceeding towart
Balagh bridge and had to seek SAT