TURMOIL IN IRELAND

Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 80, 29 December 1920, Page 5

TURMOIL IN IRELAND

DISSEMINATION OF FALSE NEWS THE "FREEMAN'S JOURNAL' . CASE Br Telegraph-Press Association-Oopyniht Dublin, December 27. P. J. Hooner, editor of the "Freeman's Journal." charged with disseminating false news regarding tho Crown Forces m Ireland, has been sentenced to ona year's imprisonment—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. (Rec. Decomber 28, 7.55 p.m.). London, December 27. ! Fitzgerald and Edwards, proprietors of the "Freeman's Journal," have each , bgen sentenced to twelve, months' imprisonment for spreading a false report, | ' the sentence to bo concurrent with the I ' six months' sentence passed on them early in the month. The newspaper also , has been fined _3000.-Aus.-N.Z. Cable , Assn. FIGHT IN MARTIAL LAW AREA i DANCE MEETING SURPRISED BT ! CROWN FORCES. London, December 27<i The Crown Forces surprised a dance meeting at Bruff, Limerick, within the martial law area. The forces were fired on from the hall, and a policeman -as ' killed. The firo was returned, and five J civilians were killed. They all bore arms. , The Crown Forces detained 138 prison-ers—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. '■ FOURTEEN KILLED AT WEEK-END GIRL SHOT WHILE PROTECTING- A CONSTABLE. (Rec. December 2S, 0.35 p.m.) London, December 28. Fourteen were killed in Ireland at tho Christmas week-end, including a girl shot dead while attempting to protect Constable Richardson at Limoriclc Richardson was walking wrfii Elizabeth Scales, aged 22, on Sunday evening, when four men seized the constable's revolver and loveltcd it against the policeman. Mass Scales rushed in between Richardson and the murderers and was shot dead.—Aus.N.Z- Cable Assn. CORK "EXAiNER" OUTRAGE SINN FEINERS RESPONSIBLE. (Rcc. December 28, 3.M5 p.m.) London, December 2S. Sinn Femers were responsible for the Cork "Examiner" outrage, which was duo to the fact that tlio paper, which is Nationalist, followed tho Bishop of Cork in denouncing the murders of polica and ambushes of soldiers.—Aus.-N.Z. Or.ble Assn.