THE IRISH PROBLEM.

Hokitika Guardian, 24 November 1921, Page 3

THE IRISH PROBLEM.

•nsTRAUAN AND N.Z. OABI.K ASSOCIATION. PRISONERS ESCAPE. , (Received This Day r.t ? 30 a.m.) IXINDON. Nov. 23. Forty-four political prisoners at KM- ' kennv escaped through n tunnel, lmvinp; an .exit on a public thoroughfare. The escapees include Delalumty (cabled on January 3rd). The escapees bored the tunnel under the gaol into the centre of the gaol street, where pedestrians were amazed to see the crust of the earth breaking, and two prisoners emerging from the hole. The latter ordered the dumbfounded witnesses to stand back, and commandeered a. nearby cottage, in which they imprisoned the onlookers. Alter this, the remiander of the prisoners came out from the tunnel. When the last jnan j was out the alarm was raised and mill- I tarv lorries quickly appeared. The whole countryside is in a ferment, but j darkness aided the escapees who took to 1 the fields, where the lorries could not ! follow j I!EI.EAST QUIETER. LONDON, Nov. 23. Belfast is quieter ta-day though a. man named Rluuton, in charge of dock labourers was shot dead this morning. BELFAST SITUATION WORSE. LONDON, Nov. 23 The situation is graver in Belfast. Fighting has spread to districts that ' hitherto wore untouched. The police and military lrave been increased, hut armed men are entering the public] houses that are tenanted by Catholics. ! One Catholic publican has been killed ] and two have lieen wounded. Tuesday’s casualties were 10 killed and (it) wounded and sent to the hospital. A workmen’s ear currying 70 Unionists, from it shipbuilding ear, was bombed in Corporation Street in Belfast, and a side-ear was torn out. Three were killed and 16 wounded. The affair caused a panic in the street. Another bomb was thrown and wounded 12 shipyard workers watching the firing in xfewtownards