IN IRELAND

Hokitika Guardian, 20 May 1921, Page 3

IN IRELAND

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION

ULSTER ELECTION CAMPAIGN

LONDON, May IS

The electoral campaign for the Ulster Parliament is being contested energetically. The platform issues have resolv<ed themselves into a declaration of Unionist opposition to the establishment of an Irish Republic, while their opponents assert that they are out to kill the partition of llreland. The Unionists are confident of winning 36 seats.

ATTACK ON POLICE BARRACKS LONDON, May IS.

An armed hand eommamdeored a crowded passenger train at Balia ghatierin, in Roscommon. They then drove to the police barracks, and using the engine as a fort, they opened an intense fire. The police forces replied, finally compelling the attackers do start the train and escape. Some passengers had a terrifying experience when lying down in the carriages under a hail of bullets. Only one was wounded. MUSIC FAILS TO SOOTHE. 'Received This Day at 12.29 p.m.) LONDON, May 19. Musicians returning from a Loyalist demonstration through the Sinn Fein quarter of Belfast were fired upon. A fierce riot ensued. The police fired a volley, killing an ex-soldier and wounding a civilian. The Sinn Feiners shot dead Joseph Haydan, farmer, who was in bed at Rock, near Dunganong, and fatally stabbed his brother James.