CABLE NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 26 June 1922, Page 2

CABLE NEWS

itoI'HAUAN A*vy N.?,. CAJ»I,K ASSOCIATION. FURTHER SHOOTINGS. LONDON, June 23. Lawless, au ex-soldier aged fifty, who was a harmless tailor, with no politics was in bed with his wife in Rutland Street, Dublin, when two armed meo knocked at the door of the bedroom The husband rose and opened the door, and the wife followed. The men said to her: “Come out! We’ll shoot you toil” She did not believe they would shoot, and turned to get her clothing. Immediately two shots were fired, and the hnsbaild cried : “My God, Mary I’m shot,” and fell dead; The' rath then ran away. ; William Kirkwood a Protestant, the manager of flourmills in Belfast, was murdered at midday, outside the mills. A gang recently raided the mills, and shot two Protestant workers, one fatally

ULSTER STRIFE. LONDON, June 23

A gang of armed men entered the Irish National Foresters’ Hall in Belfast during an afterncoii. held up the caretaker, sprinkled petrol, and ignited the building which ws« partially gutted, despite thfe efforts of a lire brigade.

B'une bombs vcm thrown into a draper’s premises in Raph.ioe. County Donegal, in the Free State Territory during one morning. The building with the stock in t a le, together with an adjoining hotel, was burned to '.lie ground. A young man who was formerly a “special” constable in Belfast, was taken out of a house where he was lodging in Wingate. County Wicklow, and shot dead. Some masked men held up a mail train from Belfast, near Randlstown. seized mail hags and decamped. TRISH FLECTIONS. ■LONDON, June 23. The difficulty in connection with the Mid-Cork election, owing to tampering with Mr Coliliis’ s papers; has been settled. The matter lias been left to the returning officer's adjudication.