IN IRELAND.

Hokitika Guardian, 11 February 1921, Page 2

IN IRELAND.

BY TELEGRAPH—PRESS ASSN., COPYRIGHT. | AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. IRISH RAILWAY MEN SHOT. . ENGLISH LOCO MEN ACT. LONDON, Feb 9. A railway strike by the associated society of Locomtive Engineers and Firemen is threatened as a result of the shooting up of Mallow. The Executive has sent the Government a peremptory demand lor an inquiry, or otherwise they will strike on Tuesday. They allege that some of their inembeis wore killed and wounded. ’

Secretary Bromley (London,) sin lev: ‘The situation is of the gravest. The Society is determined to see uistii-0 dont* to our members. They had nothing to do with the shooting of Captain or Mrs King.” W e are ask.ag (he National Union of Railwaymeii lor support, but in any case we are going on with it.” There is some doubt as to the -ocamotive men’s next move slioulu the Government refuse an inquu v The railway officials state that they are keep ing theij; plans secret, but ii is understood that notices have been dispatched to the branches, who have been ordered to cease work on February 15th unless previously coiinteriuamh 1. Tho Irish liailwaymen’s versim of the Mallow affair states that the Black and Tans rounded up the Mallow station staff and marched them into the road. Then they told them to run for their lives, and fired at them as they /ran, killing two. Sixteen of the others escaped on a locomotive. ,

MORE SHOOTING

LONDON, Fel, 10. Armed men at Drogheda took Alexander Halpin and/ John Moran from their beds and shot them outside the house, Thq bodies were taken to the military barracks where an <>nquify was held. Tt is stated that both were Sinn Feiners.

LONG SENTENCES. LONDON, Feh 10. Four Sinn Feiners named McGinn, (sentenced to ten years servitude), and Macerlane, Clark, and Doherty (to eight years servitude), were imprisoned for wounding a policeman at Botliwell. MORE SHOOTINGS. (Received This Day 8.40 a.m.) LONDON, February 10. Mr Reilly, a well-known Cork business man, was shot dead near his residence. A card attached to the body was inscribed: “Beware of tbe Irish Republican Army.” The body of a civilian with bullet wounds in the face was found near Drummondrae. Alongside the corpse was another man similarly wounded. A nex-soldier was shot dead near the police barracks at Enniscortly. THB STRIKE THREAT. (Received This Day at 9.45 a.m.) LONDON. February 10. Hon. Lloyd George,' in a letter, to Mi*Bromley, states the threat of a national strike, cannot be permitted to influence Government’s action on a matter of administration of law. Government will reconsider the question purelv on its' merits without reference to these improper threats.