IN IRELAND

Hokitika Guardian, 27 September 1920, Page 3

IN IRELAND

faUST&AMAN dT N.Z. OAlU.fi ASSOCIATION,

• A BLACK WEEK. (Received This Day at 8.40' a.m.) LONDON, Sept. 25. •. The paßt week has been a black one in Ireland. About twenty people were killed and four towns were burned, causing damage estimated at three hundred thousand. Many people are honie--1 less. The life of the Secret Service men * in Ireland, once they become known, is 1 nol worth five minutes’ purchase. That is why murder inquiries are held in private. REPRISALS IN VOGUE. (Received This Day at 8.40 a.m.) LONDON, . Sept. 25. What amounts-to a condition of reprisals is contained in an interview which an American journalist had with General Macreedy, who is reported to have said that formerly in Ireland, if a policeman was killed there was no thought of reprisal in the minds of the Royal Irish Constabulary. They thought j only of bringing the murderer to justice, hut now that the machinery of the law has broken down, they feel there is no certain means of redress and punishment. It is only human that they should act on their own initiative. . Punishment for such acts is a delicate matter, inasmuch as it might be interpreted ns setting at naught the hoped v for effect of the training the officers \ have given the men. MORE MURDERS. (Received this day at 9.30 a.m.) LONDON, September 16. Constable Leonard was shot dead at Belfast and two other constables were wounded in connection with renewed rioting at Falls Road. Three civilians were killed in other disturbances. In many districts fierce stone throwing occurred and attempts were made to burn a public house at Old Lodge Road. Curfew wifi he reimposed. The military ra?dod. Maghernfelt An Londonderry, and arrested Larkin, Chairman of the Rural Council and Smyth. Chairman of the Board of Guardians.

McSWEENEY’S VISITORS

(Received this day at 8 a.m.) LONDON, September 26. TJi© “Sunday Express” states the Home Secretary has curtailed the privileges extended to McSweeney s i datives. McSweeney has been transferred to a room, of which the door is locked and only the prison doctors and nurses are allowed to enter. No one connected with McSweeney is. allowed to approach the bedside. The relatives may speak to him through the bars of the door. . ' l P k IRISH INCIDENTS. (Received this day at 8 a.m.) September 26. ?Three armed police at Keadue, Roscommon dragged Quiznan, a Sinn Fein leader from his bed, beating him severely and breaking his nose with a clubbed rifle. A fierce fight followed and Quiznan’s father knocked down a policeman with a pair of tongs and the mother floored another. Owing to kidnapping and ill treatment of the loyal drivers and firemen, the - \ Dundalk Enniskillen line has been clos-. ed and several towns are without mails.