SINN FEIN

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 101, 23 January 1920, Page 7

SINN FEIN

REPRESENTATION AT MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS NOT A SWEEPING VICTORY (By Telegraph-Press lAssociation-Copyrisht London, January 18. The Sinn Fein Ims .not obtained its predicted sweeping victory in the Irish municipal elections, in which proportional representation was introduced. The Sinn Fein obtained small majorities inj Dublin,, Cork, Limerick, and other towns in the south awl west. Tho Labour Party, which is favourable to the Sinn Fein, had the next largest representation. The Unionists, Reformers; Nationalists, and Independents combined havo substantial representation, though iu a minority. The Sinn Fein lmve forty-one out ot eighty' seats in tho Dublin Corporation, compared with seven previously; and the Nationalists nine, compared with iiftyone. In Ulster, tho Unionist majority is substantially reduced. The party has thirty-six seats iii Belfast out of sixty, compared with fifty-two previously—Aus.N.Z. Cable Assn. LABOUR DELEGATION" FROM LONDON TO INVESTIGATE THE POLITICAL ' SITUATION. (Rec. January '22, 9.5 p.m.) London, January 19. A Parliamentary Labour Party delegation, including Messrs. X. Ilenderson, W. Adamson, and J. B. Clynes, has gone to Ireland to investigate the political situa-tion—Aus.-N.Z. Cable A^sn. SEVEN MONTHS' CRIMES ; A FORMIDABLE LIST. London, January 18. An official return covering' tho last goven months of 1919 credits the Sinn Feiners with having murdered eighteen policemen and two civilians, fired at the police on sixty-three occasions, and at civilians on fourteen occasions, fired into dwellings on forty-ono occasions, conducted 589 raids for arms, and with haying been responsible for seventy incendiary fires. —Aus.-N.Z. Cable.Assn. , ATTACK ON POLICE BARRACKS A LONG FIGHT." (Roc. January 22, 9.5 p.m.) • London, January 19. ' A hundred and fifty armed men rondo a determined attempt to capture the police barracks-.'near Tliurles. A fusilade of bullets -at the front and rear marked the opening of tho attack at 9 o'clock .'on Sunday night. Two dynamite bombs were exploded under the barracks; damaging tho 'flooring. The garrison of thirteen police took rip positions and replied briskly with rifle-fire. The shooting lasted four or five hours, tho steel window-shutters being dented and pierced in many places. Thero were no casualties on. either side, , but several-of the polico suffered slight cuts from flying fragments. Reinforcements of polico and soldiers, on arriving, found all tho roads in the neighbourhood barricaded with felled -trees. When they reached the . barracks the attackers were gone. _ Three unexplodod bombs were found in the precincts. Tho raiders captured and held prisoner two of the police during the attack.—Alls.-N.Z, Cable' Assn. anotheTmurder ASSISTANT COMMISSIONER, OF POLICE SHOT. (Rec. January 23, 1.10 a.m.) New York, January 21. Dublin reports state that Mr. Redmond, Assistant Commissioner of Police, has been shot dead.—Router.