IN IRELAND.

Hokitika Guardian, 18 October 1920, Page 2

IN IRELAND.

(Reuter’s Telegram.! IRISH HAPPENINGS. LONDON, October 14. It is reported that the bomb explosion in a house in New Ross killed seven persons. There are five wounded persons now kept in custody. I hey are charged with “experimenting in bomb-making.’ ’ The organisation by the Government in Ulster of a Civil Guard is now nearly completed. The new force comprises two paid classes, permanent forces and occasional police. There are an unlimited number of unpaid volunteers? Practically all thp guard are members of Carson's Ulster Volunteer, Army or ex-soldiers. There is a further secret service staff also being organised to combat secret activities of Sinn Fein. It will be composed mainly of exofficers. Moore, resident Magistrate at Mullingar and Hyde a Justice of the Peace were, while motoring to sit at the petty suasions .kidnapped l 'by some masked men. Their whereabouts are now unknown..

£IOOO REWARD. (Received this day at 8 a.m.) LONDON, Oct. 16. A thousand pounds reward has been offered for information resulting in the arrest of the Sinn Fein, General Daniel Breen, aged 27, formerly a labourer, and described as Commandant of the Third Tipperary Brigade of the Republican Army; also a fanatic of sulky appearance and leader of a gang specialising in murderous outrages. Breen is wanted on several charges of murdering, including Smyth, cabled on the 14th, when Breen escaped by jumping from a window to a greenhouse injuring his legs. It is believed he has been hiding in England, following a threat of reprisals if Sinn Feiners are released uninjured, by Moore at Hyde, cabled on the 15th.