IN IRELAND.

Hokitika Guardian, 10 May 1921, Page 3

IN IRELAND.

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION

SINN FEIN HAPPENINGS.

LONDON, May 8. A Glasgow message states the police have arrested further Sinn Feiners. The police received letters threatening those concerned in the priests arrest with dire vengeance. %

An attempt was made to' blow up Mary hill gasometer.

The co.figergation of tho Jesuit Church, in Gardiners’ Street, Dublin, stampeded on hearing firing outside, duo to forces attacking men who threw three bombs at a military lorry. A number of the congregation were badly trampled on and sent to hospital. ; POLICE INSPECTOR ATTACKED. LONDON May 9. ■Belfast was startled by Si desperate attempt to assassinate a Police Inspector named Ferns, who was twice wounded. He was leaving Archdeacon Oonvery’s residence at the time. He was sent to a hospital in a critical condition. TROOPS RUN AMOK. LONDON, May 8. The Crown Forces broke barracks at Youghal, in County Cork. They then smashed thousands sterling worth of shop and house windows in the town. JOHN DILLON.

LONDON, May 9

Tho late Irish Nationalist Leader,, Mr John Dillon, has issued a manifesto, advising tho Nationalists of Ireland not to participate in the Southern Irish elections.

Mr Dillon says Nationalists could only enter tho contests as tho opponents of Sinn Fein, which is using its whole organisation to obtain a solid block. This would inevitably lead to bitterness, and possibly disorder and bloodshed.

He says that though still irreconcilably opposed to the Republicans in their programme and methods, it is nevertheless impossible for the Nationalists under the present circumstances in Ireland to oppose them at the elections without being charged with supporting the “Black and Tans” and the “Auxiliaries.” Mr Dillon says: “Greenwood’s policy is brute force, which the Government adopted against the Nationalists’ advice, after tlie Irish election had demonstrated to the world the Government’s total failure to obtain a settlement.” He adds that, the Irish question would enter a new phase, and the Nationalists would again become an essential aivd powerful element in the situation. A CONSTABLE SHOT. (Received This Day at 11.30 a.m.) LONDON, MayA 9.

An armed party near Armagh seized Constable Hopkins and his brother and blindfolded them. The constable •placed against a wall and shot. .1 *» brother was released.