IN IRELAND.

Hokitika Guardian, 11 September 1920, Page 3

IN IRELAND.

Hauler's Telegrams

MORE OUTRAGES. LONDON, Sept. 9. At Galway railway station at midnight, Sinn Feiners shot dead Constable Krumm, an ex-soldier in a desperate struggle, Krumm killed three assailants and wounded others. Subsequently the homes of civilian volunteers were raided. One man was dragged from his bed, apd tied to a lamp-post, -where he received nine bullets and died.

AN ILLUMINATING DOCUMENT LONDON, Sept. 9. A captured Cork official organ of the Irish volunteers provides an illuminating insight into the avowed purposes of ' the present Sinn Fein campaign of murders. The paper declares to-day the first line 0 f the enemy, the chief instrument of the executive power, has broken down and ceased to be effective The Irish Constabulary have been driven . from their outposts and nearly five hundred of their strongholds have been evacuated and destroyed. They were forced to concentrate dnly in strong centres, where in some parts of the country they were m the position of a beleaguered garrison. They were no longer effective for the purpose for which they were intended, namely, the maintenance of ordinary civilian law and order upon which every civilisation depends.

MISS McSWEENEY’S PLEA. LONDON, Sept. 9. Miss McSweeney attended the Trades Union Congress and pleaded for an opportunity to address delegates. Mr Thomas informed Congress that it woujd be madness to allow it, owing to thp terrible strain Miss McSweeney was undergoing. Congress agreed to this, and she left * the gallery, .shouting “Traitors !’ ?

McCURTAIN’S MURDER. LONDON, Sept. 9. Griffiths dares Lloyd George to establish an impartial tribunal to investigate McCurtain’s murder. He indicates that the Sinn Fein is able to produce evidence proving the police guilty. Four constables were ambushed® at Tullow. Two were killed. MANNIX AND SPEECHMAKING. * LONDON, Sept. 9. Dr Mannix denies that he wrote from America that he intended to refrain from speechmaking in Ireland; but he wrote to Bishop Gleyne requesting that there be no demonstration of welcome on his arrival at Queenstown. IRISH CONSTABULARY. (Received This Day at 8.40 a.m.) LONDON, Sept. 10. Four hundred members of the local Irish Constabulary, recruited in England, liave arrived in Dublin to assist the Metropolitan police.