THE IRISH PROBLEM.
AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. SLIGO REPUBLICANS. LONDON, July 4. An unofficial report states fighting is in progress in County Sligo, where the Republicans have wrecked and burnt some police barracks, and did much damage.to the railway, and also destroyed the houses of all protestants at C’oolOne.V. ORPHANAGE BURNT. LONDON, July 4. Jlr \Y. Churchill in the House of Commons, stated that Republicans burnt an orphanage for Protestant children at Clifden, County Galway, saying it was done as a reprisal for inmates" loyalty. The staff and 32 children were rescued and brought in a destroyer to Queenstown.
IRISH HAPPENINGS. I Received this dav at 8.30 a.m.) LONDON, July 5. ' Tiio bomhnrdmont of rebel strongholds in Saekville Street was continued all nini l l long. There was intense maeliine «un and rifle fire. Nationals concentrated in Kingstown an I Hooters;own left in motor lorries IVr Dublin Hills. Aimed men raided the small towns in VVii kloiv and seized foodstuffs and petrol. Looting was prevalent, girls armed wit . revolvers entering the shops and eomn audeering goods, particularly drapery.
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Hokitika Guardian, 6 July 1922, Page 2
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179THE IRISH PROBLEM. Hokitika Guardian, 6 July 1922, Page 2
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