The Archive · 1920

What Ireland Tells America

At a recent, sitting in Belfast of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in Ireland resolutions were submitted by the Committee on the state of the country, expressing abhorrence of the brutal murders committed during the past year, calling on the Government to use all the resources at its disposal to bring those guilty' of the murders to justice, and expressing sympathy with all loyal citizens exposed to terror and outrage and with the officers of the law who were faithfully discharging their duty at the peril of their lives.

The Rev. William Corkey in a reference to the recent Ulster Unionist mission to the United States, of which he was one, gave as a sample of the falsehoods circulated in America regarding the situation in Ireland a statement made by a clergyman before the Committee on Foreign Relations of the Senate when that body was discussing the Irish problem. The statement alleged that Ireland was policed by Gurkha troops, who went about the country with knives in their han

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