IN IRELAND

Hokitika Guardian, 23 February 1920, Page 3

IN IRELAND

(AUSTRALIAN lT' JS.Z. CAULS ASSOCIATION/ •RAIDERS STILL BUSY. (Received This Day at 8 a.m.) LONDON, February 19. Armed men attacked the police barracks at Castle Gregory, Kerry. The attackers blew up a portion of the barracks, demanding the surrender of the police who refused, and a fight ensued. The attackers withdrew, leaving two rifles. One policeman was slightly'’ wounded and it is believed three of the attackers \yero wounded. Prior to the attack, all the teleplipnes and telegraph communications ~-ore cut. Police from the surrounding ureas hastening to raise the seige, found the roads barricaded by felled trees, stones and earth works' with trenches across the roads, r' MILITARY RAIDS IN DUBLIN. (Received this day at 9.20 a.m.) LONDON, Feb. 20. A tank, armoured cars, and military motor cars made a raid on premises in Aungiers Street, Dublin, and arrested seven, also seized rifles and a quantity of ammunition. It is believed that the civilian wounded in the "Westmoreland Street affray is connected with the premises now raided. The civilian, although in a critical condition, refused - to give his name. Apparently his fleeing comrades deserted him in a state of collapse. He is not expected to re-

cover. A mystery surrounds the finding of the body of an unidentified man m a field outside Cork. The head and body are riddled with bullets, suggesting execution and instantaneous death. Rosary beads were beside the body. It is anticipated the man was shot nhile praying, expecting death. Farmers in the neighbourhood said shots were heard hut they were afraid to venture out and investigate. ' ■ LONDON, Feb. 21, One hundred police and fully armed soldiers were employed in the Aungier Street raid upon the window blind factory. In addition to the tank and motor lorries, two armoured cars were engaged, from the turrets of which machine guns were turned on the crowd watching the operations. The soldiers with fixed bayonets lined the streets while the police tore up all the flooring of the factory, and after two hours they brought out two brothers of McGrath, the civilian wounded in the Westmoreland Street. The crowd gave the prisoners a thunderous cheer and hissed the soldiers. The police and soldiers .- are guarding Mercer’s hospital where the other McGrath is lying. The Dublin authorities believe today’s arrests will dispose of the secret society responsible for many of the repent cfirpejj, THE UNREST IN IRELAND,

(Received This Day at 8 a.m.) LONDON, February 20. Further raids were made on private houses in Dublin in the early hours of the morning, and resulted in six .arrests. When the largest steamer ever built in Irelafid \vas launched at Belfast, £fli? ped ensign was suddenly haulpd fjpwj} (Rid the Sin Fein flag hoisted. POLICE FIRED AT. (Received This Day at 8 a.m.) -- - DUBLIN, February 20. A party of Sinn Feinners fired upbn two policemen Westmoreland street at 1 o’clock in the morning. ’Die police returned the fire, killing civilian. Later Constable Walsh was -Avounded in Westmoreland Street shootj()„ apd died. Twenty shots were exThree heavily-armed civilians were captured.

THE IRISH CURFEW. (Received this day at 8.40 a.m.) DUBLIN, Feb. 20. The Army authorities have ordered all persons after the 23rd to remain within doors between midnight and five in the morning, except nurses, clergy and doctors, who will he provided with passes. Others will be liable to he charged, if they do not obey, and do at their own peril.