OUTRAGES IN IRELAND

Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 169, 13 April 1921, Page 7

OUTRAGES IN IRELAND

SENSATIONAL ATTACK ON DUBLIN HOTEL POLICE CONSTABLES KILLED By Telegraph—Preu Association-Copyright. , London, April 11. A large force of civilians sensationally attacked’ the London and. North-Western Railway Hotel at Dublin, whttre a number of auxiliary police are staying. After surrounding the building the mob hurled Mills bombs, poison-gas bombs, and bottles of petrol into the hotel precincts. The men then used revolvers freely. The police returned the fire, and after a vigorous fusillade the attackers retired, leaving one dead and two Woundeel. A number were arrested.

Constable Fluke was killed by a bomb and three others wounded. While returning from a Protestant church in Creggan, Armagh, they noticed people crowding round an hotel. They approached, and the bomb was thrown and fire opened from th© opposite side of the road.

Constables Doolworth and Boynes were ehot in a street at Kildorrey, and died a few hours later. —Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.

AUXILIARIES’ PLUCKY FIGHT

PARTY OF REBELS SURPRISED, (Rec. April 13, 0.35 a.m.) London, April 11. During the attack on the NorthWestern Hotel some auxiliaries fought in their pyjamas, and others in shirts and trousers only, and bare, feet, but they pluckily pressed the republicans, who covered the retreat of the main body by raising the drawbridges over the canal.

A small party of rebels were surprised while blowing up bridges and trenching roads at Liscasano, Tralee. One rebel was killed and another wounded. One auxiliary was wounded. Scores of youths from neighbouring villages invaded Rosscarbery, Cork, whence police protection was withdrawn owing to recent attacks on the barracks, and looted the shops. There were fierce fights between the villagers and the Footers, a number being injured on both sides. —Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. THE LIVERPOOL FIRES

SINN FETNER SENTENCED TO TEN YEARS’ IMPRISONMENT. (Rec. April 13, 0.35 a.m.) London, April 11. Lowe, a labourer, convicted of arson on March 9. during the Sinn Fein fires in Liverpool, has been sentenced to ten years’ penal servitude. —Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.

IRISH DOMINION LEAGUE TO SUGGEST A BASIS OF PEACE. (Rec. April 13, 0.35 a.m.) London, April 11. The Irish Dominion league has authorised the executive to prepare a memorial to the Government suggesting a basis of peace and procedure likely to bring about a reconciliation of the southern and northern interests and aspirations by means of friendly discussions and negotiations.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.

MAYOR OF CORK MUST LEAVE AMERICA STATE DEPARTMENT’S RULING. New York, April 11.

The Labour Department has announced that Daniel O'Callaghan (the Mayor of Cork) must leave the country. The State Department having denied his plea for political asylum, O’Callaghan’s status is that of an alien seaman. Tho law prescribes no time for Teshipinent, but the practice allows sixty days from the State Department’s ruling.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.