IN IRELAND,

Hokitika Guardian, 27 September 1920, Page 2

IN IRELAND,

Ueuter’s Telegrams

MORE RAIDS. ■ LONDON, September 24. The town of Milltown, Mall Bay,* in County Clare has been wrecked by the police, and the inhabitants have had to flee. 'Hie town, whose sacking is referred to as ‘a reprisal has suffered such destruction that it resembles a Belgian town after a German raid. There are a hundred women and dren now sleeping out in the wqpds. The raiders had large supplies ctrol. With this) they quickly ' ren- - dered houses uninhabitable. Though there were soldiers stationed in the i.town, who did their best to put out the flames, the houses were ruined. , The inhabitants continue teiirorstricken. Scores of the peopleware migrating with their household goods. r ; ROBBERY OF POST OFFICE.' (Received this day at 8 a.m.) LONDON, Sept, 25. Two armed men felled and bound the night porter of the Dublin Post Office, placed him in a cellar ajnd blew up the safe, and secured the pay for the postal staff and a large sum of money for payment of old pensions totalling several thousands. . ' : \ •

IRISH OUTRAGES. (Received this day at 8 a.m.) LONDON, Sept. 25. Armed uniformed men wrecked the residence of Mrs Mac Curtain, widow of the previous Lord Mayor of Cork, who was murdered in March. She reports a shot was fired at her from the road while, walking in .the back gardens, but she was not injured. Five masked men stopped the machinery of the Dundalk Democrat Nationalist organ, advocating constitutionalism. Uniformed men raided several buildings in Galway and damaged the machinery of the “Galway Express” and raided the office of the “Conna ; tTghi-'-Tribune” ‘and arrested the editor. Fifteen uniformed men, calling themselves the “Black and Tans,” raided a section of Athlone for arms.