DISORDERS IN IRELAND

Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 34, 4 November 1920, Page 5

DISORDERS IN IRELAND

ATTACKS ON CONSTABULARY

UNPRECEDENTED REPRISALS THREATENED

(By Tclegraph-'Prcaa Aeaoclation-Oopyrlr'nt Dublin, November t. Tho series o£ outrages seem to suggest a .prearranged attack on tho Royal Irish Constabulary throughout the country. Between last .night and noon to-day attempts were made on the lives of fiftytwo policemen.—"The Times."

London, November 2. There have been further reprisals at 'J'ralee: Uniformed men fired through the streets, and one man was killed and several wounded. Notices posted at I'ralee state that, unless two policemen who are. in Sinn Fein custody are released this morning, reprisals unprecedented in Ireland will occur in Tralee.

It is reported that the bodies of two missing men have been found in a field 1 outside the town riddled with bullets. The inhabitants, expecting a night of terror, are fleeing, snops ;iro shuttered, and filio streets are desorted.

One hundred and twenty men ambushed a police patrol at Carrick-on-Shanr.on, and one was killed and tlweo Wounded. The remainder and the lorry were captured.—Aus.N.Z. Cable Assn.

NO GOVERNMENT POLICY OF REPRISALS (Bee. November 3, 7.55 p.m.) London, November 2. Sir Haraar Greenwood, in the House of Commons, denied that there was 6uch a thing as a Government policy of reprisals. The reprisals wero frequently acts of self-protection by tlip police and troops.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. MILITARY MEN TO BE COOTTMARTLLLLED. London, November 2. Mr. Winston Churchilf, speaking In the House of Commons, said that, as' the result of.inquiries into recent events in Ireland, several non-commissioned officers and men will be court-martialled. —Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. •