REPRISALS IN IRELAND

Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 1, 27 September 1920, Page 5

REPRISALS IN IRELAND

SOLDIERS RAID'ANOTHER TOWN FLIGHT OF TERRORtSTRICKEN INHABITANTS By Telegraph-Press Assoolation-OopyrlgM (Eec. September 25, 5.5 p.m.) London, September 24. Milfcown, on Mai Bay, County Clare, which suffered from soldiers' reprisals, resembles a Belgian town after a German raid. Hundreds of women and ohildren ore sleeping iu the woods. The raiders had large supplies of petrol and quickly rendered tho houses uninhabitable, though soldiers stationed in tho town did. their best ..to put out the names. The inhabitants continue ter-ror-stricken and scores aTo migrating with their household goods.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. A GENERALWAYLAID BRISK EXCHANGE OP BULLETS. (Reo. September 26, 5.5 p.m.) London, September, 25. A' party of men armed with revolvers waylaid General Strickland, commander of the Cork Division, while motoring in the neighbourhood of Cork. His car was struck by bullets and tho driver was wounded. General Strickland returned the lire and wounded one assailant, whom his comrades carried off.— Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn, furtber~c¥trages NEWSPAPER OFFICES RAIDED. (Rec. September 20, 11.5 p.m.) London, September 25. Armed and uniformed men -wrecked the residence of Mrs, Mac Curtain, widow of the previous Lord Mayor of Cork, who was murdered in March. She reports that a shot was iired at her from the road while she was walking in her back garden. She was not injured. . Five masked men stopped the ma-

ohinery of the Dundalk "Democrat/' a nationalist organ advocating constitutionalieni. Uniformed men. raided several buildings in Galway and damaged the maohinery of the Galway "Express." A raid was also made on the Connaught "Tribune," the editor of which was arrested, Fifteen -uniformed men calling themselves "Black and Tans" raided a section of Athlone for arms.—Aue.-N.Z. I Cable Aesn. ffiec. September 27, 0.15 a.m.) London, September 26. Ttoee armed police at Keadue, Eoscommon, dragged Guignan, a Sinn Fein leader, from his bed, beating him severely and breaking his nose with a clubbed rifle. A fierce fight followed. Guignan's fath&r knocked down a policeman with a pair of tongs and his mother floored another. Owing to the kidnapping and ill-treat-ment of loyal drivers and firemen, the Eandalk-Enniskillen line has been closed. ■ Several towns are without mails.—Aus.N.Z. Cable Assn. Two armed men felled and bound the night porter in the Dublin Post Office. Thtey placed him in a cellar and blew up the eafe, by which mgans they secured the pay of the postal staff and a laTge Btini of money intended for the payment of old age pensions, totalling several thousands of pounds.—Beuter. M'SWINEY'S CONDITION UNCHANGED (Reo. September 25, 5.5 p.m.) London, September 21. M'Swiney's condition ia unobanged. His relatives deny that he is being fed.— Aus.-N.Z. Cable. Assn. PRIVILEGES CURTAILED. - (Rec. September 27, <U5 a.m.) London, September 26. The "Sunday .Express" states that the Home Secretary has curtailed the privileges extended to. M'Swiney's relatives. M'Swiney has been transferred to a room, of which the door is kcked, and only prison doctors and nurses are allowed to enter. No one connected with M'Swiney is allowed to approach his bedside, but hie relatives may speak to him through the bars of the door.— Aus.-N.Z. CaWe Assn.