IRISH DISORDERS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 2111, 6 April 1920, Page 3

IRISH DISORDERS.

FHJKK IN' DUBLIN.

SINN FEIN i- l -AG FLYING,

LONDON, April 3

Eighteen hundred men participated in a huge cattle drive in Galway, clearing thousands of acres. The police were powerless. Many smaller drives arc occurring in Mayo. Three drives took place to-day in the Bailyhauucs district. The residence of General Lcwin, a large landowner, was attacked. ’lho military arrived on the scene and fired over the heads of the fleeing drovers, six of whom wen?arrested. Judge Kenny has imposed a local levy of £SOOO to compensate the relatives of D. Hunt, who was shot dead in Thurlcs County. The Court ui. Tipperary has similarly awarded to the relatives of .Sergeant Brady, killed at i.orrha, £2OOO, and to the relatives of Constable Foley, wounded on the same occasion, £2300.

The Sinn Fein flag is (lying I'iOiu the flagstaff of the Admiralty Bier, Queenstown, Winn J’Viners having ( ‘iit the halyards and greased (lie flagstaff to prevent its removal. The Fire Brigade in Dublin’w.-s engaged for three hours last night coping with eight, separate- tiros in tho income Tax Collector’s and Surveyors’ Offices in dihemit parks 01. tho city. Before they were subdued masses of important correspondence and documents wore destroyed, which doubtless was tin-, incendiaries’ object. The caretakers were .previously held up with revolvers. Similarly two fires occurred in the Pensions and Inland Revenue Offices at. Cork, separated half a mile away. Many rounds of revolver ammunition were seized aboard a vessel reaching' Londonderry oif Saturday. The governor of Londonderry gaol refused to allow the. Nationalist .Mayor oi (lie city to see, Sinn Fein prison rets, l>o not having taken the oath of alio.fiance. After the wires running to Dublin had boon cut, isolating Belfast, gangs of criminals entered the Grand Central Hotel, which jiccoiim odates the Pension and Labour Departments, and also tho Bank of Ireland, at Quccnsbridgc, at night time, and destroyed many documents. Fire:; were afterwards discovered and extinguished by tho Arc brigade. Three separate fires were found in tho Income Taxe Offices, also in the Surveyor'*, but tho only office seiiously damaged was Blair's in North Street. Armed police are now guarding Hits city po. i offices and public buildings. Belfast remains calm. Tho cable from Whitehead to England was cut. Alai mi l: predictions of an uprising during Easter apparently dwindled to tlie unforeseen but carefully planned programme of destruction of the Government offices in various parts of Ireland. W: iOf AOS AF t M DKLTI’ULT:DN. (Uc.-c-ivcd Monday, 7...5 p.m.) LONDON, Ajiiii 5. Dublin Ca?(lo aulhorilks on bunday afli-rnoon rere-w-d it;-oris of the deal ruction o - 50 lurrapks, nearly all of wli'.-h bad previously been Vacated. Tv.n; were abo liras in 1 7 taxation chi.-os. KA3IM4ISS’ GRbLL DEED. (Deceived Monday, 3.25 p.m.) LCNPON, April 5. Other barrack.;! burned arid eject royed in Ireland include three in County Cork, six in County Limerick and twelve in County Clare. Tbe anIborifiai declare (hat the only inconvenience resulting is from the destruction of fbo revenue records. Tins will be felt by the taxpayers. ■ Twenty armed rahurs entered a J’.OU.JO in Clara market town, in King’s County, and dragged a youth named Kionr.au Flynn into the yard and forced the father, mother and sister to sit on chair: in tho yard, and (bon ordered Kiwma.n to ;(and. lie was’(hen shot, dud lion in a critical condition.