IN IRELAND.

Hokitika Guardian, 28 June 1920, Page 3

IN IRELAND.

fAUSTUALI aN it N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION]

LIVELY DERRY. LONDON, June 25. Throughout the night there was considerable sniping in Derry. The shooting was more intense to-night than previously. An ex-soldier was shot dead. Destroyers assisted the military by play(oT[ ing a searchlight on the city. IRISH AFFAIRS. (Received this day at 8 n.m.) LONDON, June 26. Lord French speaking at Belfast, said Government was determined that the t Irish should enjoy the same protection and privileges as people elsewhere, and would not hesitato to employ all the forces at its dispose*! to this end. It desired the country to enjoy the utmost freedom and would never listen to proposals for a Republic or coercion of\Ul_ ster. , is resuming. l RETALIATION. , LONDON, June 25. There is a severe retaliation against Sinn Feiners at Bantry. A disguised party at two in the morning snot dead a prominent Sinn Feiner while asleep in his father’s house. Simultaneously a party set fire to. another Sinn Feiner’s shop and house, using boards and petrol, and completely destroyed the buildings, In four other similar raids two houses were gutted. The district is in a statp of consternation,

IRISH RAILWAY MEN. (Received This Day at 8 a.in.) LONDON, June .26.

Trouble lias arisen on the Irish railways owing to the guards and. drivers refusing to carry soldiers. The strike is extending, and traffic on the two main lipes has practically been suspended. Armed men raided Sligo gaol at midnight and released a prisoner awaiting trial for stealing arms. Another armed gang sejzed eighty gallons qf petrol at Limerick station. Derry is reported fjuiet. It is under complete military control, and business ' CONFERENCES FOR PEACE. LONDON, June 26. Undersecretaries' from Dublin Castle together wijili the military chiefs, conferrecj with the Magistrate’s at Londonderry, with a yiew to arriving at peace by conciliation, being of'the opinioii |hnt it would leave less bitterness tliaj] by ji forcible settlement. The Conciliation Committee representing ejassgs wijj forthwith, £*? RAILWAY TROUBLES. "' ‘ LONDON, June 26. Rnjlwuy (ijffi<!uli<ies in Ireland, are developing with nlqqning rnpjdity. Wide areas ip the south are without trains. Dublin is threatened with the cutting off of- food supplies. The. dismissal of pphvaymrn t'pr refusing to carry police njld yon|inuy,s, Twenty m|tsjiec| pieji barricaded a road, stopped a Cavan mail motor, chloroformed the drivers, stole the mails and' left the drivers unconscious on the roadside.

Another party stopped a Cavan mail tr/iin and abstracted jetters.

MASKED ROBBERS. LONDON, June 26. Two masked men held up the pay office of the Great Northern Railwaymen ip Belfast with revolvers during the afternoon, and sfole £l()fjO.

LONDONDERRY QUIET. (Received this day, n( 9.30 a.m.) LONDON, June 27

Londonderry was .undisturbed throughout Saturday. There, were no furthep aprivylr. ‘of troops during the ft is reported 20 Sjpp f’ein of the shooting, wpre escretly buried,