EVENTS IN IRELAND

New Zealand Times, Volume XLVI, Issue 10615, 14 June 1920, Page 5

EVENTS IN IRELAND

CONSTABLE SHOT DEAD IN PUBLIC VIEW. Australian nod ' N.Z. (table Association. (Received June 13, 5,5 p.m.) LONDON, Juno 11. A party of ten shot Constable Carrol dead in the public view in the middle of tho afternoon outside the Railway Hotel, Limerick. ATTACK ON POLICE BARRACKS. Published in ‘"The Times." LONDON, June 13. During an attack ou the police barracks at Carraghdrohid, County Cork, a constable dropped his rifle and played a violin, with the idea of cheering his comrades. Tho attack failed, but the barracks was partly destroyed by explosions of petrol. AWARDS TO BEREAVED FAMILIES. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Received June 13, 5.5 p.m.) LONDON, Juno 11. Tho Dublin Recorder has awarded £4650 to the widow and £2OOO each to tho two daughters of Commissioner Redmond; also £SOOO to the widow of Mr Bell. Mr Redmond (AfisistanKPolico Commissioner) was shot outside the Sinn Fein headquarters in Harcourt street, Dublin, in January last. Two shots were fired from tho opposite side of tho street, and Mr Redmond was found with an automatic pistol in his baud. It is surmised that ho drew tho pistol after tho first shot, which missed. The second penetrated the brain, arid death was instantaneous. Mr Allan Bell, who was assassinated in the streets of Dublin in March, was a Dublin It was alleged by tho Sinn .Feiners that ho acted for tho F.nglish Secret Service for forty years. , 1 IRISH AMBASSADOR AND THE VATICAN. Reuter’s Tolecram. ROME, Juno 11. In semi-official communications, thu Vatican dissociates itself from tho Recalled Irish Ambassador in Rome, and declares that it took no action which might ho construed as an acknowledgment, nor was *any personage in tho Roman Curia present at tho recent reception of the Ambassador.