HOME RULE SCHEME

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 92, 13 January 1920, Page 5

HOME RULE SCHEME

OPPOSITION TO PARTITION OF IRELAND Auetralian-N'cw Zealand Cable Association. London, January 8. ■ The Dublin correspondent of the "Times" states Unit Unionists who aro opposed to the partition of Ireland, headed bv Lord Midleton, have rejected 1 the Government's Home Rule proposals. Tliev are ccnvinced that if the control of three-fourths of the country is entrusted to the Revolutionists the secession of the southern provinces and tho declaration of a Republic will immediately follow.— - "The Times." POLICE BARRACKS WRECKED, /. ATTACKED BY A HUNDRED SINN FEINERS. London, January 10. A hundred Sinn Feiners' with revolvers and sliotifuns, attacked the police barracks at Castlohackctt, County Galway, , and wreeked it with wounding a nol iceman who was returning the fire from behind the steel shutters. Another, partv of police came up, and surprised tho, Sinn Feiners in the rear, and they fled. In al! these attacks on the bar- , racks the nolice have, been,outnumbered l>v ten to one.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. ! SEVERAL ROBBERIES REPORTED.. London, January 9. Outrnees continue in Ireland. A man ' wearinir a disguise held up a railway , 1 porter at a small station near Limerick. I While covering him with a revolver, lie ' > ransacked a lnailbaK and decamped with : - .ill the valuables in it. Two masked cyclists robbed a mail ■ motor-ear near Mullingar Several men attacked a mail-car in the roadway, m Galw.iv. knocked the driver senseless, and , searched the mailbaj;. Thieves again , 1 entered the Northstand Post Office. in - Dublin, i'lid secured .£2oo.—Aus.-N.Z. ■ • Cable Assn.