The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-06-01

1OuQOllt QAlS ASPOA NAeNe 90
James Craig, premier of Ulster. had
asked the British government to take
aggressive military action on the
Ulster frontier, was followed this
Afternoon by word from Belfast that
soldiers were replacing the police at
some points on the border of Tyrone
county, where violent fighting has
been raging between Republicans and
Orangemen.
(By the Associated Press.)
London, June 1.-Premier Sir
James Craig and tt e Marquis of Lon
donderry, Ulster minister of education,
arrived from Belfast today and went
into conference soon afterward with
Prime Minister Lloyd George and
Winston Churchill. secretary for the
colonies.
At noon the cabinet convened with
Mr.. Lloyd George in the chair.
(By the Associated Press.)
Belfast, June 1.-Grovenor Road
was the scene of intense firing today.
A boy was struck by one of the bull
let's and killed.
In Falls road, adjoining, there was
considerable shooting at an earlier
hour. Four wounded persons were
taken to hospitals from this area.
Special Constable Roulston, whose
shooting. precipitated last nights trou-
bles, died of his wounds, ana this with
the death of two other wounded per-
sons, brought the total of the fatalities
from yesterday shootings to twelve.
A blind man and his landlady were
shot as they stood at the door of their
home.
In another district a mob swarmed
around a butchers shop and shot
dead a Mrs. McIlroy and her daughter.
CBy the Associated Press.)
London, June 1.-Co1onial Secre-
tary ChurchilTs statement on ireland
in the house of commons has made a
deep impression.
The serious emphasis which he laid
upon the extreme gravity of the sit
bility of Great Britain reoccupying
Irish territory are featured by today $
newspapers as opening an ugly vista
leading up to incalculable trouble.
The hopeful note which he sounded
in conclusion receives some recognI-
ton and the editorial comment is di-
vided between these two aspects of
the position,> one section of the press
laying chief stress on the menacing
outlook and the other urging the need
for patience and depreciation, the as
sumption that the tangle must be
Strengthened out by the application of
force.
The speech leaves the prospect of
Irish peace overcast with impenetra-
BILE darkness, says the Times. The ar
rangement which Griffith and Collins
have proposed and which the govern
ment has apparently accepted offers
only the faintest hope of any improve
ment upon the existing state of affairs.
Mr.. Churchill and his colleagues
have been too often led astray by over
confidence in Irish affairs. Great
Britain is in the presence of one of
the gravest crises in her history"
The Daily Mail says 1.-The country
was looking anxiously for definite as
surance that Collins stands by the
treaty and that there will be real free
dom at the election and that the at
tacks on Ulster shall cease or be sup
pressed with the whole strength of the
British government on not one of
these points was anything forthcom-
ing that relieves the public fears. In
effect the cabinet turns q blind eye to
the CollinsDe Valera past and tells
US that If we are being duped We shall
know it in due time; meanwhile, we
are to wait and see"
The Daily Chronicle says: I
Nothing in the speech was better
than the concluding passage wherein
Mr. Churchill insisted upon The Wis
GoIn of carrying out the treaty OF. the
Pritish side most carefully.