IN IRELAND

Hokitika Guardian, 22 November 1920, Page 3

IN IRELAND

I‘‘BKUIBbV’ IRLKfIBAM.I RAIDS AND REPRISALS. (Received This Day at 9.45 a.m.) LONDON. Nov. 21. The authorities state that raids in Dublin began on Saturday with visits to one or two factories, leading up to several arrests. Republican volunteers are operating on the southern side of the city, fiercely attacked black and tans this morning. The victims of the Northampton roadshooting were suspected of being secret service men and were killed in thou beds. * While the shooting was in progress in Mount Street, 'where two ex-officers were killed, a lorry load of blacks and tans passing, heard cries for help. A fierce battle with republican volunteers followed. Two black and tans were killed and several volunteers wounded. MORE SHOOTINGS. (Received This Day at 9.45 a.m.) LONDON, Nov 21. Ten or twelve officers or ex-officers living out of barracks were shot dead in Dublin this morning. Two were killed at Gersham HoteJ. Captain Newberry was shot dead at his residence, Lower Bagot street, and three were shot dead in Worthampton Road. Later advices state eleven were killed including Capts. Mac Lean, Fitzgerald and McCormack, and five wounded including civilians. The fact that the police and military hae begun raids throughout Dublin, holding up motor-cars and motor cycles causes grave fears that this morning’s murder will provoke serious repirsals tonight. Galway County Council’s resolution against the'D ail Eireann instructed the rate collectors to place all moneys to the credit of legally appointed treasurers in the National Bank. MR ASQUITH’S VIEWS. LONDON, Nov 20. Mr Asquith was entertained at luncheon at the National Liberal Club. He said during the last six months Ireland was in a state of civil war. The blind truth was that since the establishment of reprisals ‘British justice had been placed in the background and violence enthroned. The executive had allowed itself and its servants to become ministers of a policy of blind pitiless indiscriminate revenge. Government’s system of administration was not only con trary to the fundamental principles of liberty, but to the best traditions of civilisation, which was Christianity. AN IRISH RAID. (Received This Day at 11.30 a.m.) LONDON, November 21. At the gaelic football matich in Dublin, six thousand spectators were present, when an armed force with armoured cars and machine guns entered the field, firing in all directions. Several persons were shot dead and hundreds wounded during the stampede that followed. The body nf Father Griffin concerning whom a question was asked in the Commons on /Friday has been recovered. REPUDIATION. LONDON, Nov. 21. The Galway Council has decided to repudiate the Dail Eireann and to comply with the requirements of the Local Government Board. The repudiation is regarded as foreshadowing the disruption of Sinn Fein influence.