VIOLENCE IN IRELAND

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 122, 17 February 1920, Page 7

VIOLENCE IN IRELAND

RAIDS ON HOUSES AND POLICE BARRACKS TRAIN HELD UP BY BOMBTHROWERS (By Telegraph-Presß Association-Copyright (Rec. February 17, 0.25 a.m.) London, February IG. Six masked men entered the house of a farmer named Morris at Ballagh, County Wexford. Mrs. Morris, aged fifty-four, the mother of fifteen children, ordered the intruders to leave. The leader of the gang fired a shot at tho ceiling to intimidate the woman, who seized a spade and rushed at the intruders. The leader fired point-blank, and tiho woman fell as her husband rushed in, and died in his arms. Then the leaders pointed a gun at the distressed husband, and said that if he left the house within two hours ho would share his wifo's fate. A train of forty-seven trucks filled with military stores and ammunition, in charge of a military guard, was nearing Dublin when bombs were thrown at the train, which then stopped. A party of raiders boarded it and seized a quantity of ammunition. A signalman and a Eoldier were wounded by bomb explo-sions—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. London, February 15. Sinn Feincrs attacked the police barracks at Ballytrain, Monaghan. After a three hours' fight tho raiders blew up the buildings, nnd a falling wall injured three of the police. A oartv of masked men raided the house of Mr. M'Sweeney, a veterinary surgeon, in Cork, for money and arms. One of the Taiders was wounded, and will nrobablv die. A bullet wounded Mr. M'Sweenev in the arm. Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. PRIESTS CONDEMN OUTRAGES WARNING TO YOUNG MEN. (Eec. February 17, 0.45 a.m.) London, February 16. Most of tho Irish Roman Catholic bishops, in their Lenten pastorals, condemn the recent outrages, and warn young men against the dangers of secret societies. Cardinal Logue denounces tho Government's _ severity and- vindictive sentences, which he says are out of all proportion to the alleged transgressions. —Aus.-N.Z. Cablet Assn.