ULSTER PARLIAMENT

Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 201, 20 May 1921, Page 5

ULSTER PARLIAMENT

ELECTIONS CONTESTED WITH ENERGY

UNIONISTS CONFIDENT

By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright

(Rec. May 19, 11.30 p.m.) London, May 18.

The elections for tho Ulster Parliament are being contested energetically. The platform issues have resolved themselves into a declaration of Unionist opposition to tho establishment of a republic, while their opponents assert that they are out to kill tho partition. 'The Unionists are confident of winning thirty-six seats.—Reuter. SINN FEiFvENGEANCE PERIODICAL RAIDS ON MAILS. London, May 18. Sinn Fein vengeance continues in Ireland, according to discharged men from the Black and Tans, whom the authorities have paid off, advising them to return to England, where they are known and marked by Sinn Fein gunmen. One states that ho travelled homeward by a circuitous route, taking three days. He was shadowed throughout by an agent, disguised as a priest, which he alleges is a favourite device. Women are often employed in espionage, sometimes in the guise of nurses. Women in the West of Ireland warned tho Sinn Feiners of military movements by lighting fires outside their houses, and their manner of wearing hatpins and buttoning their coats. Periodical raide are made on the mails to enable Sinn Fein to learn the English addresses of tho Royal Irish Constabulary men’s relatives. The recent large development m the London organisation enables the use of this know-ledge—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.

WORK OF YOUNG WOMEN (Rec. May 19, 11.30 p.m.)

London, May 19.

Scotland Yard believes that young women disguised as men took part in the week-end outrages in London against relatives of men who are serving in the Crown forces in Ireland. Four women and twelve men have been detained by tho police. Steps have been taken to protect other London. relatives who are in receipt of threatening letters.—Aus.N.Z. Cable Assn. attack on Police barracks A TRAIN COMMANDEERED. j London, Alay 18. An armed! band commandeered a crowded passenger train at Ballaghatierin, Roscommon, and drove*it close to a police barracks, using the engine as a fort, and opened an intense fire. The

■police replied, compelling the attackers to start tho train and escape. The passengers had a terrifying experience, lying in the. carriages under a. hail of bullets. One was wounded.—“ Times.” soldiers Surprise rebels (Rec. Alay 19, 8.50 p.m.) London, Alay 18. A patrol party from the Devon Regiment surprised a Sinn Fein column of thirteen near Kilmacthemas in County Waterford. The rebels surrendered without resistance. Constables Dunn and Doran were shot dead at Kinnitty, in King’s County. Two others were wounded. The man Alacneill,' who was wounded during tho Sinn Fein raid in Shepherd’s Bush, has since died. —Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. THREE "AGAINST ONE AN INSPECTOR ATTACKED. (Rec. Alay 19, 10.45 p.m.) London, Alay 18. District Inspector Walsh was shot at Duncannon, County Wexford. He is a fine athlete, and when confronted by three rebels closed with one armed ruffian. Although Walsh received a shot in the hip as he closed, he struggled- to his feet again, and grappled with his assailants, who fired three more shots, and then ran away. Walsh is in a desperate condition. —Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn

CHALLENGE TO REPUBLICAN ARMY

(Rec. Alay 19, 10.45 p.m.)

London, Alay 18.

An aeroplane at Skibbercen dropped hundreds of leaflets addressed to the Irish republican army. The leaflets contained challenges from the Crown forces to the rebels to coine out into the open in uniform and fight, adding "Ambushes are open murder.”—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.