CABLE NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 12 May 1921, Page 3

CABLE NEWS.

IN IRELAND.

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. MORE SINN FEIN MURDERS. (Received This Day at 10.40 a.m.) LONDON, May 11

Three disguised men, failing in their search for a man named Folan, released s after sjx months’ imprisonment for a political offence, shot Folan’s youthful brother dead and wounded another brother. The men then went to a lodging house nearby and shot Tally, a j railway foreman, dead. j Armed men held up the staff of the , Rainelagh branch of the Royal Bank of J ’ Ireland and took seven hundred ster-, , lin 8SENSATIONAL ESCAPE. (Received tin’s day at 12.30 p.m.) LONDON, May 11. j A sensational escape of Sinn Feiners, being conveyed in lorries under escort to Richmond barracks in Dublin. When the lorries stopped at the gate the prisoners jumped out and scattered in all directions. Two men ran to the Kingsbridge terminus, jumping on to the ( pilot engine, told tho driver to drive ( for his life. He did so, and the men j escaped. A large force of troops chas-1 ed the others, but none wero recaptured. DR MANNIX.

\ (Received This Day at T. 5. p.m.) . LONDON, May 11. Largo numbers of Irish priests and bishops came to London and entertained Dr Mannix at luncheon prior to his departure for Australia on-Saturday. The priests presented Dr Mannix with gifts, including vestments. Mannix, replying, said tho British Government had endeavoured to put people in one camp, and the bishops and priests in another, but all were united. He was not allowed to visit Ireland, because he refused to do the Government’s work there. The Government asking him to do its work hacked the wrong horse. He is taking a message to Australia that everything he had said and done before and since he left Australia regarding Ireland was endorsed by cardinals, archbishops and priests. He was able to tell Australia that the crimes and outrages in Ireland must not he placed to the discredit of the Trish people. England could have penee in Ireland any day by ceasing British aggression. The Irish people were asking nothing hut what they were entitled to. They were asking for self-determination, to which all nations, great and small, are entitled.