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IRISH PROBLEM.

LORD DERBY'S MISSION SECRET VISIT TO IRELAND. (By Cable—Proas Aeeociation— Copyright.) (Australian and N.2. Cable Association.) (Received April 24th, 5.5 p.m.) LONDON, April 23. Lord Derby has returned from a secret visit to Ireland. The Irish .newspapers state that he travelled incognito and interviewed important people, but whether he weni> as a Government representative is not known. Lord Derby conferred with Mr Lloyd George at Hythe. presumably in con-i nexion with his visit to Ireland. MURDER AND OUTRAGE. (Received April 24th, 6.5 p-m.) LONDON, April 23. Bands of armed men in Cork surrounded fifty postal officiulu, and secured tho entire city's correspondence, whidh they successfully removed in vans. A military forage party van ambushed at Clogheen, Tijjperary. One soldier' was killed. Inspector Potter, of the Royal Irish Constabulary, who ran into the ambush, is missing. His car was found riddled with bullets; Harris, a, Protestant farmer near Ballinamore, was dragged from bed and taken away. Later, his dead body was found with the skull battered, and labelled "Spy and informer." Reilly, an ex-soldier, was shot dead at Ballycar, 'County Clare, in the presence of the parish priest, who arrived to administer the last rites. As tho priest approached, the ussailants fired the fatal shots into Roilly, who had been previously wounded. Sinn Foiners tore up . tike Great Northern railway line at Glaslough and derailed a heavily-laden goods train from Belfast. The raidors set fire to the waggons, forty-one being destroyed.

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Press, Volume LVII, Issue 17128, 25 April 1921, Page 7

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IRISH PROBLEM. Press, Volume LVII, Issue 17128, 25 April 1921, Page 7

IRISH PROBLEM. Press, Volume LVII, Issue 17128, 25 April 1921, Page 7

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