OUTRAGES IN IRELAND

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 127, 23 February 1920, Page 7

OUTRAGES IN IRELAND

ATTACK ON POLICE BARRACKS

POLICEMAN FATALLY SHOT

!By Telegraph—Press Association-Copyright

(Rec. February 22, 11.5 p.m.) London, February 19. Armed men attacked tho police barracks at Castlcgrego'jy, Kerry. Tho attackers and defenders used i-ifirs, revolvers, and grenades. The attackers blew up portion of tho barracks, demanding a surrender. The police refused, and the fight was resuni/1. The attackers withdrew, leaving- two rifles. One policeman was slightly wounded, and it is believed that three of tho attackers were wounded. Prior to the attack all telephone and telegraph communication was cut. The police from surrounding areas, hastening to raise the siege, found the roads barricaded- bv felled trees, stones, earthworks, end trenches cut across the roads—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. '

(Rec February 23, f1.20 a.m.) * Dublin, February 211.

A party of Sinn Feiners fired upon two policemen in Westmoreland Street, at 1 o'clock in the morning. The police Teturncd the fire, killing one civilian. Later.

Constable Walsh, who was wounded in the Westmoreland Street shooting, has died. Twenty shots were exchanged. Three heavilv-arro.ed civilians were cap-tured.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. RAIDS ON PRIVATE HOUSES. (Rec. February 22, 11.5 p.m.) London, February 20. Further Taids were made on private, houses in Dublin in the early hours of tho morning, and resulted in six arrests. —Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. DUBLIN'S SINNFEINLORD MAYOR MAY BE INSTALLED IN LONDON. ,-.'(Rcc. February 22, 5.5 p.m.) London, February IP. In tho event of Mr. T. Kelly not bein» allowed to quit England for the Mayoral installation at Dublin on Monday, probably the corporation, headed by the outgoing Mayor, will come to London to instal Mr. Ifclly.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. fit was announced last week that Mr. Thomas Kelly, Lord Mayor of Dublin, had been released from Wormwood Scrubs Prison owing to health reasons, and had been taken to a private hospital. Mr. Kelly, a Sinn Feiner, was elected Lord Mayor of Dublin at the elections in January, while ho was an inmate of Wandsworth Prison. Cork and Waterford also elected Sinn Feiners as Lord Mayors.] RAID ON "MSIiINDEPENDENr OWNERS AWARDED DAMAGES. (Rec. February 22, 11.5: p.m.) ' London, February 18. The Recorder at Dublin has awarded ■£15;000 damages to tho owners of the "Irish Independent" for damages in tho raid.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. ENSIGN ON STEAMER* HAULED DOWN SINN FEIN FLAG HOISTED. (Rec. February 22, 11.5 pjn.) London, Fobruary 20. When the largest steamer ever built in Ireland was launched at Belfast, the red ensign was smldenly hauled down and tho Sinn Fein flag hoisted.—Aus.N.Z. Cable Assn.