IN IRELAND

Hokitika Guardian, 27 January 1920, Page 2

IN IRELAND

(B, li ectric Telegraph—Co jyrigiitj ATTACK ON BARRACKS. (Received this day at 8 a.m.) LONDON, January 26.A party attacked the police baracks at Murrol, pear Limerick, in which tlierq were eight constables on Sunday morning. Firing lasted for two hours. The attackers fronting the barrages were concealed by a. wall. and maintained a steady fire while another party crept to the side of the barracks and exploded a bomb but without damage,. There were no police casualties, owing to the use of steel protecting plates. The attackers retired before the police and military reinforcements arrived. Their progress was delayed by felled trees.

THE BRITISH LABOUR MISSION. ON THE IRISH QUESTION. (Received this day at 9.30 a.m.) LONDON, Jan. 26. The “Daily Express” Dublin correspondent says that the British Labour Mission is amazed at the hopeless tangle prevailing in Ireland. They met Griffiths, the acting-President of the Sinn Fein Republic and several members of his so-called Cabinet. They also interviewed Southern Unionists, Na-

tionalists and Labourites, and learned from all sides that the issue is uncompromisingly all or nothing. There must either be union, backed up by the fullest military force or complete Republican independence. The mission regards either solution as im-

possible. The Labour Party certainly will not take up republicanism, but- is inclined to think Hon. ‘Lloyd George’s scheme for a dual parliament only a waste of time. The mission probably will advocate a wide scheme of Home Rule, on lines of Dominion administration, with County option, coupled with an ambitious plan for an industrial revival.