IN IRELAND.

Hokitika Guardian, 31 March 1921, Page 2

IN IRELAND.

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. IRISH NEWS. LONDON, March 29. The authorities are aware that a special gang of Sinn Feiners lias arrived in England to carry out an intensified arson campaign. It is understood that the gang is using motor cars, motor vans and numerous disguises. Stringent precautions are being taken to guard public buildings. LONDON, March 29. Captain Lees employed at Dublin Castle, was shot dead in Drury Street. He was in mufti, walking to the Castle. Three of four men surrounded him and fired several shots pointblank. Tiie assassins escaped. Armed men removed Good, a military crosser, from a trap at Barryshall, County Cork, and shot him dead. A note attached to his clothing read: "Convicted by the Spies’ Informers’ Bureau.” Good’s father was shot dead on March 10th. LONDON, March 29 Twenty per cent ot the members of the Independent Labour Party have seceded. They propose joining the Communists. FATHER AND SON SHOT. (Received This Day at 8.30 a.in.) LONDON, March 30. Rebels placed William Fleming, a protestant farmer of Dnimgod, Monaghan, and his son Robert, against a wall and shot them. The son died instantly and the father later. The Flemings recently refused to give up arms to Sinn Feiners.