CABLE NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 22 March 1922, Page 3

CABLE NEWS.

THE IRISH PROBLEM.

fBY TELEGRAPH —PER PRESS ASSOCIATION]

IRISH MURDER CAMPAIGN. _ LONDON, March 20. The murder campaign in Belfast continues unchecked. A number of armed men broke into the house of a woman named Mrs Murphy,. They then murdered Airs Murphy, who was a lrotestant, hut who had married a Catholic; , A number of Sinn Feiners made a murderous attack on three loyalist carters, who made a run. One was seriously wounded. Hills, an employee of the Belfast Corporation, was shot m the face m Templemore Street, and died m a few k . hours. . . The tension is most serious near tnc Ulster border. There have been several affrays. Some Sinn Feiners in one case, seized thirty Ulster motor cars. ■ They were however, in County Donegal (outside Ulster). The seizure took place during the week-end. The Sinn Femers sent the drivers and owners home, telling them “not to come back !” Some armed bands of the Irish Republican Army carried out. a senes of outrages in County Londonderry early on Monday morning, when they set fire to and destroyed extensive flour mills at Ballyarton, and also sawmills, threshing mills, barns .and other buildings. This fire lit up the country for miles around. All the property which was valued at £40,000, belonged 'to members of the Ulster Police Constabulary. Several bridges were fl ‘So blown up. Some Sinn Feiners ambushed a man named Robert Mullighan. who was an influential Orangeman, when he wa s on the Monaghan frontier and shot him dead. A constable named Stevenson was with Mullighan, and he was seriously woullded,

I.R.A. IN LUSTER. LONDON, March 20.

Over two hundred I.'R.A. men surrounded the town of Maghera in county Derry, and cut off the lights. They ordered the inhabitants to go indoors. Then they captured the barracks. The raiders then retired to the Sperrin Mountains, which are alive with I.R.A. Ulster “specials,” m force are now trying to round them up.

BELFAST CARTERS PROTEST LONDON, March 21

Belfast carters have struck work, as a protest against their insecurity, owing to frequent shootings, Twentysevbn carters have been shop ami 147 injured eluting the disorders.

African Affairs.

MOTIVES OF INSURRECTION

AUSTRALIAN AN 11 N.St. CAULK ASSOCIATION

. Received This Day at 11.30 a.m.) CAPETOWN, March 21. A representative of the Australian Press Association during a recent visit to the Rand endeavoured to discover the underlying motives of the insurrection. The investigation was carried out both among the worst /'ufibanH among the prisoners and well to do sympathisers of the labour cause, Dutch inhabitants lawyers, and financiers of Russian birth. 4he conclusion ailiv-'d at was that the whole matter was of a most complete character and no doubt Bolshevist propaganda was openly carried out on the Rand for years fast in Dutch and English headed chiefly by English extremists, who turned 4,h0 heads of many workeis, notably among the illiterate miners of Dutch descent. Tig) promoters of the upheaval included Some Russian Jews, but the gicst fiiajbrity were of English birth with a jbw Dutch extremists., In fighting, the Dutch were foremost, both as re gard leadership and numbers, the English second, and Russians a had third There were several Dutch lads among the snipers, considering it snort to pickoff passers by. The rank and file apparently had no c K’ai- idea what object would be attained. They were told they must right to keep out the natives and also for the worthy object of establishing a Republic md would have big support from the country districts. When the Burghers marched into the outskirts of Benoiii, they were cheerfed by the strikers, who believed they had come to their assistance. Ibis military support was expected from the Free ytatej which was overwhelmingly Republican. The rally of the Burghers to the Government, came as an immense surprise to the revolutionaries.

COMMUNISTS GEAR. (Received This’Day at 1.39 p.m.) CAPETOWN. March 21.

In the room in Trades Hall, Johannesburg, used by Communists, the police found a. red robe, and two red caips, tbo same shape as the cap of liberty worn in the French Revolution. Also a black skull cap. It is surmised the latter was the Cap of Justice, and would have formed part of the vestments of the Judge, under the. Communistic regime.