IN IRELAND.

Hokitika Guardian, 16 February 1921, Page 3

IN IRELAND.

BY TELEGRAPH —PRESS ASSN., COPYRIGHI. AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. A BLOCKADE BY' SOLDIERY. LONDON, February 14. There was a blockade by the Crown Forties against western Kerry. as cabled on Febniaf.v 4. In consequence the stationmaster on the Traloe-Dinglo line reports the food supplies (there are now exhausted, and the women and children are on the verge of starvation. Tile Labour leaders in London have been urged to take immediate action for the relief of the people. EX-SOLDIERS GET FARMS. LONDON, February 14. Sinn Feiners have instituted i campaign of terrorism against ex-service-men, they having informed twenty-five ex-service men that if they persist in settling on the land they will be tried by the gjnn Fein Courts and shot. Landowners who are offering estates to the Ex-Service Settlement Commission have been similarly threatened.

ANTI-SINN FEIN FUELING. LONDON, February 14. There is intense indignation in I/m----icaghirc against Sinn Fe biers, cotton operatives organising a movemet to refuse to work with Irishmen. The country is lieing for suspects in connection with cases ctf arson, of whom the police have issued description, and several Irishmen are in custody. The police believe a plot was hatched in Ireland, but was not due to Liverpool Irish Sinn Feiners. As a result of their trial a.t- Liverpool, two men, Ken’ and McCaughey, labourers were found guilty of a conspiracy to murder police, and of setting ' Hire to warehouses and timber yards in Liverpool and Bootle on No vember 25th. last. They were sentenced to 10 years penal servitude. 1 Another man, Fowler, was found guilty of a conspiracy for firing warehouses. B>o was slentenced to two years. IRISH HAPPENINGS.

(Received This Day at 9.45 a.m ) | LONDON, Feh. 15. Beale, manager of a Cork wine merchant’s business is missing. He is believed to have been kidnapped. His father in law and latter’s son were kidnapped and shot in December. Francis Teeling, who was sentenced *» to death for lift' murder of Lieut. McMahon during the Dublin murders, cabled on Nov. 21st, escaped from'Gilmainha goal. One report states that Sinn Feiners attacked the gaol and carried off Teeling. Dublin Castle denies the reported starvation in West Kerry, and states thero is no embargo on foodstuffs which are plentiful in the district. j LONDON, Feb 15. The Teeling rescue was daringly carpied! but. Confederates Arrived at Kilmainham in a motor lorry armed with an alleged warrant for the transport of Teeling to another prison. The authorities appear to have been coniJp, pletely duped. A large party of Republicans ambushed the train at Irishannon, with forty military aboard. The train re- , plied to the attackers fire and a fierce battle followed. Six soldiers were wounded, tlireo seriously. Two rebels were killed, five male passengers, one female killed. Two railway officers an dseveral others were wounded.