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Show 'LAND HUNGER' SEIZES jfi PEOPLE OF WEST IRELAND j (Special Correspondent.-) J DUBLIN Out of the accumulating i l ills of Ireland a new disorder has 'i I developed. Land fever, or land hunger, i has broke out in a form that closely H resembles Bolshevism, and the 'worst 1 aspects of agrarian trouble arc going hand in hand with revolutionary Sinn Fein. The West of Ireland the region of landless men and manlcss lands, where successive generations have been raised for export to America has struck against migration and decided de-cided to keep its young at home and JL plant them on the land. j4l In those great tracts of the west 'SI and middle west where for many years mB fat bullocks and sheep havo replaced V the lean men and women of tho old U agrarian daj of the Land league and the plan of campaign, revolutionary ' youth has decided to replace the beasts "m with men and women. The cattle arei H being driven off by organized bands of mM men acting in the name of the Irish , Republic and the lands are being seiz- I HH cd and parcelled out among the land- ' II The movement has attained pro- If portions that have no parallel in the H agrarian history of Ireland, and the HI intimidatory process by which it is HI carried on are of a character that I I nav? aroused the gravest alarm" SI among the thoughtful people of the HI country. TBI |