IN IRELAND
(By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) IRISH TROUBLES. (Received This Day at 8 a.m.) LONDON, February 3. Irish authorities have instituted a new system of mixed military police patrols. Nothing serious occurred at Dublin.
Crowds, jeering, and singing, provoked a street battle at Limerick. A patrol of thirty-two soldiers and seven policemen accompanied by tanks and armoured cars beginning the rounds in the evening was subject to a hostile demonstration, which culminated in firing from the side streets. The patrol returned fire and continued the march, when a bullet from a side street wounded a sergeant in the bead. The firing continued for some time. A stray bullet killed a publican inside a house. Another wounded a young woman in the’stomach and she is in a dangerous condition. An ex-soklier was shot m tho leg, and several others were slightly wounded and taken to the liospita
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Hokitika Guardian, 5 February 1920, Page 1
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