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Show GOVERNMENT WILL NOT BE INTIMIDATED, BON AR LAW ASSERTS By Universal Service. (Special Cable lispafeh.) LONT'OX. J oc. IS. "Tho government is in going lo allow the establishment of h n Irish republic and coercion in Ulster." said Andrew Kotiar Law in a speech lonieht. in which he referred to the attempt at Kitlil Marshal Viscount French's life at Iniblin today. "We must use every weapon at our command to put down murder and restore law ami order." continued the poveni-inetifs poveni-inetifs spokesman. "The attack on Lord 'French is a sicnlficant indication of the spirit iu which certain sections in Ireland are welcominc; tlie KO eminent s attempt to deal with the subject. "Altemols of this kind will never make the Kritish people retard self-deterniitia-tion as the proper course- for Ireland. The British people tire moved by reelings ol j justice, not of intimidation." The Daily Hail says: "The Irish trouble pot is boiling over, hut and there, con be no more bitter reflection on the covern-nicut's covern-nicut's insane police 1 his is not altogether alto-gether astounding. The only worse Ihhif; that is. left to happen is that the crime inav lie seized upon as an excuse for pro-'oul-imr the repression and deferring the : grant Of liberal measures of self-government The crime is a serious warning to both Irish factions that violence tual reprisals re-prisals will batlll the. efforts ot their well wishers." The r. nti - Irish organs make capital or the -.'flair while those which sympathize with" Ireland's rich! for freedom voice regret and fear that it will lead to still more stringent measures of repression b I the government. The Imlly Kxpros-which Kxpros-which is outspokenly a ntl-Irish, says: - "If the Sinn Fein imagines the p.ritish administration can he coerced by threats (if personal peril, it Is borrowing tlie crazy psychology of lis clerman allies. The government must, by all the means in lis power, end this intolerable lawlessness." The Hallv Herald, mouthpiece cl" liritise labor, which has bein strongly supporting 'toe Irish frevOom movement, deplores the i attempt on Iord French's life, sav ing j "violence does not prove anything." and 1 adding: j "There will be a cry for harsher mf th-i th-i ods of coercion and degradation of a race refusing lo le- held iu subjection, which, we fear, will he met by wilder and more violent defiance countered by a viler tvranuv slid. Simpl- justice tn Ire-hind Ire-hind demands that unfortunate country's liberation: thai alone, will bring healing peace. But we fear this is impossible lender tin: present government." |