IN IRELAND.

Hokitika Guardian, 21 June 1921, Page 1

IN IRELAND.

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. MORE CONFLICTS IN IRELAND. LONDON, June 20. A patrol of soldiers belonging to the Wiltshire Regiment was bombed in Dublin from streets and house tops. Seven of the military and one of the civilians were wounded, he latter including three women. A party of Crown Forces fought some armed civilians at Castle Comer. One rebel was killed and two were wounded. Some rebels attacked the police forces at Thomastiwn. One constable was killed and one wounded. Many civilians were killed in Ireland during the week-end. Some rebels destroyed Ravensdale Castle at Dundalk. Tlie library contained the only complete set of the journals of the old Irish parliament it 1800. The courthouse was also destroyed there. Warren’s Court, in Cork, the residence of Sir A. Warren, was destroyed. REPRISALS IN ENGLAND. LONDON, June 20 The workers attacks on English railways were continued in London and Manchester. Three signal boxes were destroyed, along with the signalman wounded. Seven arrests were made in London ns already reported. BATTLE ON IN DUBLIN. LONDON, June 20. Reports which have been received from Dublin since midnight state that an intense rifle and machine gun fire lias broken out there. It is believed that there is a further Sinn Fein attack'against the Dublin Customs House in progress. IRELANIVS FINANCE. LONDON, .June 20. It, is estimated that under the Irish Parliament, the country’s revenue will be nearly .£17,000,000 a year. Only one-tenth of Ibis is to be controlled by the 1 visit Parliament under the new Act. ARMY OFFrCEU SHOT. LONDON, June 20. An officer of the Worcester Regiment was motoring last night with three ladies at Carriekmiiies. He was held up bv armed civilians, who took the officer from the car. They shot him, inflicting a dangerous wound. Then they ordered one of the ladies to drive to tli» mountains, where the officer was again taken out and murdered.

ROYAL VISIT TO ULSTER. LONDON, June 20. The London “Daily Herald” (Labour), states: “More than 11,000 forces will guard Belfast during the Royal visit. Yet not one -word has been spoken against their Majesties in Ireland. So far, the Lord Mayor of Belfast’s appeal for £IO,OOO for the purpose of the Royal reception lias elicited only £I4OO. The King’s Belfast speech may contain more than platitudes. POl- - it will make a strong jreacc appeal. CABINET AND IRISH FINANCE. LONDON, June 20. To-day’s Cabinet meeting will discuss Irish finance (only one-tenth of the revenue being under Irish Parliamentary control). It is considered that tlie result will be fateful. The Liberal members of tlie Cabinet prefer to make concessions rather than to continue the intensified coercion of Ireland. They are also supported by certain of the Unionists. The Premier, Mr Balfour, and Sir IT. Greenwood lead the dissentients to tin 1 proposal for concession. MORE OF FISCAL REFORM. LONDON, June 20. The Reformers in the Cabinet, desire to give Ireland real fiscal autonomy, subject to her making payments for Imperial defence. Practically it would bo the same as the case of Australia. They declare this is the only way to salvation and. to end the civil "at. A majority of the members of the House of Commons and the House of Lords will probably support the Reformers. APE-BURGLAR. new YORK, April 20. Poo’s celebrated tale “The Murder in the Rue Morgue” has found something of a parallel in real life, to judge from an incident described in the New YOIJ Times. . A man and his wife, living in this city were awakened by a scratching noise outside their bedroom window. As they listened the blind of the window flow up. Tn the dim Ugh* the couple saw a hideous face' peering through at them. The woman shrieked. Her husband fired a revolver and the face dropped from sight with a scream. Policemen found a trail of blood to the edge of the porch. While they were 'searching for more clues a dark figure appeared and slid like a flash down the front of the house and into the biarfemenit. There tlie police found . that their quarry, bleeding* from a shoulder wound, was a large ape. It pounded, like a pursued human boing on the door of a basement flat, which was opened by the unsuspecting inmates. Tn it dashed, pursued by the police who captured it. Suspicions are entertained that the animal had been trained by its owner to enter houses and steal