IN IRELAND.

Hokitika Guardian, 1 December 1920, Page 2

IN IRELAND.

(Reuter’s Telegram.'

V INCIDENTS IN IRELAND. LONDON, November 29. The military continue their efforts to ‘“come out” the city of Dublin. Fifty arrests were made during the weekend. The weeks total of arrests was three hundred. The imposition of ten o’clock curfew in being enforced. This is causing the theatres to close. A military party raided the Clare Lunatic Asylum. One 'inmate who did not obey an order to halt was shot dead. An attended was then arrested. Four men of high rank in the Irish Republican army, named Keys, Cotter, Donegan, and J. Sullivan, were captured outside to their motor car breaking down. The military chanced to come on the scene, and the men fled, but were pursued and captured. Disorder prevailed all day long in Cork. While the municipal fire brigad were proceeding to put out an incendiary fire an armed party • opened fire and compelled the fire engine to go back to the station, j. PRECAUTIONsTn LONDON. LONDON, November 29. There is now only one entrance to Parliament for strangers. The carriage gates and tile palace yard have been closed against all vehicles. Nobody, unless accompanying a member of Parliament, is being admitted to any portion of the Parliament buildings. Even then a stranger iB not to be admitted to either the chamber or the inner lobbies. Many detectives are employed. Permits are issued to / the officers, employers, and five brigades who are co-operating to safeguard all vulnerable parts of London. THE MACROON AMBUSH. A MURPEROUS AFFAIR; (Received This Day at 8 a.m.) LONDON, Nov. 29. Seventy to one hundred Sinn Reiners were engaged in the Kilmichael ambush. .They caught the Black and Tans in a hilly district and, also broke up portion of the raid, making it impossible for the lorries to escape, with the result that the vehicles were brought to a standstill while an intense fire was opened upon the occupants from all sides. The patrol was completely outnumbered in' pie darkness and it .-was impossible tp locate the attackers. The patrol fought to the end, but it was a murderous affair. Finally all were killed and the lorries burnt. Macroon is now isolated, and business is at a standstill. A)1 the shops are ejospd an 4 the people are leaving the locality fearing reprisals. A number of smaller shops ip the district have already been burnt dowp. Large parties of auxiliary troops are parading the town as a precaution against further reprisals, The Black and Tans left Macroon in two lorries and immediately the first lorry came within range it was subjected to a rain of bullets. The second lorry opened fire but had little effect upon the volleys of the attackers. The iocupants tried to take cover. All the Black and Tans in the first lorry were soon dead. The others bravely defended ? themselves, but the Sinn Fein marksmanship was too true. When the Sinn Feiners found the Black and Tans were not replying, they crept up to the lorries and found only one uninjured man; also one desperately wounded, wjio djecj soon after. The rest were dead.

A search party was sent out from Macroon and found sixteen dead on the road.