IN IRELAND

Hokitika Guardian, 17 February 1920, Page 2

IN IRELAND

(By Electric Telegraph—Co jyright.;

SINN FEIN ATTACKS. LONDON, Feb. 15.

Sinn Feiners atacked the police barracks at Bellgtrain, County Monaghan. After a three hours fight the raiders blew up the buildings and the wall, in. juring three policemen.

Masked men raided the house of Mr McSweeney, a veterinary surgeon at Cork, for money and arms. One of the raiders was wounded, probably fatally. A bullet wounded McSweeney in the arm.

ANOTHER OUTRAGE(Received This Day at 8 a.m.) LONDON, February 16

Sis masked men entered the house of a farmer named Morris at Ballagh, County Wexford, and Mrs Morris, aged fifty-four, mother of fifteen children, ordered the intruders to leave. The leader of the gang fired a shot at the ceiling to intimidate the woman. She seized a spade and rushed at the intruders. The leader fired point-blank at the woman, who fell as the husband rushed in, and died in his arms. The leaders pointed their guns at the distressed husband and said if ho lelt the house within two hours he would share the wife’s fate.

TRAIN EASILY STOPPED,

LONDON, February 16,

A train of forty-seven trucks, filled with military stores and ammunition, in charge of a military guard, was nearing Dublin. Bombs were thrown at the train, which -stopped and the raiders boarded it -and seized a quantity of ammunition. A signalman and a soldier were wounded by the bomb explosions..

CONDEMNING .IRISH OUTRAGES (Received This Day at 8 i*.m.) LONDON, February 16.

Most of the Irish Roman Catholic Bishops in the Lenten pastorals, condemn the recent outrages and warn the young men against the dangerous secret societies.

Cardinal Lemgue denounces the Government seventy and the viudjetive sentences which were out of all proportion to the alleged transgressions.