THE IRISH PROBLEM

Hokitika Guardian, 13 March 1922, Page 3

THE IRISH PROBLEM

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. A BELFAST MURDER. LONDON, March 11. Lieut Bruce, of the Sea fort lis, who recently was employed in enforcing the Curfew regulations in Ballast, was returning home in mufti through Alfred Stuect, when thirty or forty men surrounded him and riddled him with hu.lets. The police rushed to the scene, but found Bruce dead. Other shoutings resulted in a woman being killed, and three other persons wounded.

LIMERICK TROUBLE SETTLED LONDON, March 11

The Limerick trouble lias ended. Both the Free State and the Republican troops have agreed to evacuate the cL,\. The Municipality lias taken overcharge.

IRISH DELEGATES. REUTER’S TELEGRAMS. •'Received This Day at 8.30 a.m.) LONDON, March 11. Three leprese.n La lives of the Irish Provisional Government have sailed for New York, to explain the Government’s policy to Irish Americans. Two dc Yale, -aites sailed by the same steamer to enlist tho support of Irish Americans in favour of the Republic. FISHER TURNED DOWN. LONDON, March 11. The Kilmarnock Labourites to-day rejected Sir Andrew Fisher (ex-Aus-tralian Premier) a s their candidate for the general election in the grounds that his views are unsatisfactory and oyer moderate.