IRISH AFFAIRS.

Hokitika Guardian, 12 March 1923, Page 3

IRISH AFFAIRS.

. si era .oi.: n ink n ■/.. c.uu.K association. A HEBEI THREAT. LONDON. March 11. , Rebel informed the Free Slaty- authorities that they intend to kill .Mr- , Powell .tile V. it!. (*>.-(>( | -i't"!- ~f .Michael Collins. BURNING CASTLES. LONDON. March 11. Sir Thomas Iv-monde’s uianso-u at Ballynastirngli. County Wexford. was destroyed. Fifty lire raisers gave Hi occupants ten minutes to leave and then, us, d gas bombs mid petrel. Rebels burnt dony Ca-ile. a magnificent Normal] building belonging to Greville Nugent’s fnmilv. POLfCE RAIDS. ■Received ibis dav at 12.25 n m.) LONDON, .Mareli 11. The "Daily Express’’ states Scotland Vatd' detectives and police made a serin... of raids in almost every borough o| I.(.ndon early on Sunday morning, and captured 34 Irish Republican men, including Art O'Brien (Pro.-blent of the ■ci'li Self-determims-ion League), and Shaun McGrath (its secretary). Most oi ;lio- ' arrested were ill. bed and protest •4 vigorously. The women sang Irish .songs and shouted “I p Republb ans. as they were removed to tin. alral police station, whence they were motored to. Fusion, placed in a special train and taken to Liverpool, en route to Ireland. , . Similar raids in. Glasgow re.-uUci; in the capture of over thirty, who were ;,:.t aboard two (lest i*o\or- and Iran-- , ■ red to, ireland. COTTON GROWING. LONDON, March H. Fred Hodgkinsoii. a cotton manufacturer. speaking at Blackburn, said the Empire Cotton Growing Association had started excellently. Within six years . sufficient cotton would he grown within the Empire to enable us to become in- . dependent of America. j