CONFLICT IN IRELAND.

King Country Chronicle, Volume VIII, Issue 690, 29 July 1914, Page 5

CONFLICT IN IRELAND.

NATIONALISTS AND TROOPS 3 KILLED: -10 WOUNDED 8y Tolc«nip!j.-rros3 Au. u oc:atioii.- -Gnii.vri.Klit London, Monday. A yacht on Sunday morning landed 2500 rifles and 170,000 roundo of ammunition at Howth, north-east of Dublin, for tho Nationalist army. The Nationalist volunteers cut tho telegraph wires, thus stopping the communication with Dublin. Motor cars wore usee; to convey the arms to the interior. In the afternoon a force of police and a of the ScottiHh Borderers regiment went to Howth, where they seized 100 rifles. They were returning to Dublin with tho gun 3, when a crowd of youths followed, stoning and booing the troops and cheering Mr Redmond. Finally tho troops, Biter warning the mob, fired seveal volleys upon them. Three wore killed outright, and forty others wounded. Some of the injured are ho badly hurt that they cannot recover. The wounded included several women and children.

DUBLIN BARRACKS SURROUNDED Lond-Ji), Tuesday LBrge, excited crowds paraded Dublin utreets Inßt night, singing patriotic songs, nnd threatening the barracks, which the Irish volunteer* surrounded for two huore. They wore not carrying arms, being there for tho purpose of keeping order DISCUSSED IN PARLIAMENT Received Tuesday, 10.15 p.m. London, Tuesday In the House of Commons, Mr Redmond declared tho Irish Executive at Dublin to ho in puch a stole of impotence/that subordinate officials were able to call out tho military without even informing tho Executive. The soldiers did a cowardly thing in firing at a motley crowd of men. women, and childron.and must bo fully punished if they committed o crime. He concluded hy demanding tha ravoltation of the arms proclamation. He wished them to understand clearly that four-fifths of the Irishmen would not submit longer to be bullied, punished, penalised, and shot for conduct; permitted to go scot-free in every Ulster County. Sir A. Birrell said Mr Harrell took the whole responsibility, but he (Birrell) had since communicated with Sir J. Ross, and asked him whather he associated himself with tho act. If so, it would confirm his original view that both Mr Harrell and Sir J, Ross should bo suspended Mr Bonar Law complimented Mr Redmond on his temperate speech. Sir A. Birrell's speech amazed him. ,He asked if Mr Harrell had been instructed to permit gunrunniug

Mr Asqnith said out of 160 borderers not a single man or officer escaped bo.to injury and eighteen Holdiorß were in the hospital. When Mr Harrell took action the »r:ns prnclamction hud already exhausted itself. The Custom officers had the to search with a view to prosecution, but he wn3 certainly unaware that the police have Hit) of seizure. hit Harrell vvu3 taking an entirely new departure when he requisitioned the military to assist him to deprive persona of'arms. Personally, he regarded the importation of arniß us a minor ollence