IRISH AFFAIRS.

Hokitika Guardian, 15 March 1923, Page 2

IRISH AFFAIRS.

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. A I,LEG ED PLOT. LONDON. March 14. The London ‘Daily Sketch” es details of an alleged plot to murder many well-known propie, including Messrs Bonar Law, Lloyd George, Sir Hamnr Greenwood (oxALP. and ex-Secretnry for Ireland). Major Gretton (Unionist ALP), Air Rupert. Gwyuno (ex-Irish Nationalist ALP), and Professor Eoin Ale Neill (Speaker of the Free State Parlianl°The, “Daily Sketch” says the Republicans’ organisations includes many women, who secured employment in the houses of the intended victims, and have been able to supply the so-called officer-commanding in Britain, with details of their lives. The paper states the Carlton Club (Unionist head-quar-ters) were specially picketed night and dav and the habits of many members'we're studied, and plans wore completed whereby strife would be stirred up in various towns.

SEX EX EXECUTIONS. LONDON. March 14. There were seven executions in Do. land to-day—Groovy and Keenan, executed ai Mullingar for participating in an armed raid on a bunk; O’Rourke executed at Wick for conspiring to murder Commandant Scott, on the Occasion of an attempt to burn Mrs Powell’s house; the rem inning three, .lames Parle, .lohn C'rean. and 1 a trick Higgins, being executed at AA oxford. Free Staters when searching a disused loft at Cork over sofne shipping offices. found four canvas lifebelts, conaining 2!KM) rounds of machine-gun ammunition, and 100 rounds were found aboard the steamer Ardmore.