IN IRELAND.

Hokitika Guardian, 24 March 1921, Page 3

IN IRELAND.

s AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. CURFEW MARE EARLIER. LONDON, March 22. The curfew hour at Dublin lias now j been iixed at six in the evening, instead of nine over the week-end, thus covering Easter Monday the fifth anniversary of the Irish insurrection. CARTER ED BY REPUBLICANS LONDON, March 22. A large body of men entered the I goods depot of the Great Southern j Western Railway at Cork. Covering tlie officials with revolvers they forced them to surrender two loads of goods j consisting mostly of clothing and Red j Cross equipment. 1 MORE DISORDERS. SHOOTING AND AMBUSHES. (Received This Day at 9.45 a.m.) LONDON, March 23. Three hours desperate fighting followed an ambush of a. police patrol at Dingle, Kerry. Eight civilians were killed and twenty wounded. Four poj lice were wounded, not seriously. Police end military .searching for wanted men in Blasnev district, were ;

attacked from a farm outhouse. Six civilians were shot dead. In a running light lasting an hour at Lisparle, a policeman was shot dead and five wounded. Five Sinn Feiners were captured but escaped. Crown forces attempted to encircle tlie ambushers but failed. j Two hundred rebels ambushed a | party of the Ninth Lancers proceeding j from Stokestown to Langford for rn- 1 tions. Captain Peak was killed and > all the remaining la.n.cers wounded. The attackers secured their arms and ammunition. IRISH parliament. (Received This Hay at 11.30 a.m.) LONDON, March 23. It is understood that Cabinet has fixed April 19th. under the Irish Government Hill for the election of the Irish Parliament. ] AN A/RREST. j (Received this day at 11.30 a.m.) J LONDON, March 23. j Apprehending damage to Old Trntford ground, in view of to-day’s semi- i final cup tie, armed policemen patrolled ; tlie ground last night. About mid- . night Constable Carr challenged three ; men in, the vicinity of the ground up- ; on which several revolver shots wort* fired without wounding anybody. The j men bolted. The police scoured the district and arrested Patrick Fennell, a young Irishman. The latter, who was in bed when apprehended, was charged with attempted murder and was remanded. The police gave evidence that they found Sinn Fein badges and emblems on the prisoner. A WOMAN KILLED. (Received This TViv nt 11.30 a.m.) LONDON, March 23. A man fired on a crowd witnessing a loyalists funeral at Belfast and a woman was killed.