IRELAND’S TROUBLES.

Taihape Daily Times, 30 April 1919, Page 7

IRELAND’S TROUBLES.

DEFIANT SINN FEINERS,

murder of a magistrate.

LONDON, April I

■ The Tillies correspondent at Dublin states that Lord French, returns to face intensified, difficulties. The Soun Fein element is defiant, and elated over recent events, notably the escapes from Mount joy Gaol, which nre causing the Government to look ridiculous. Raids in search of arms and attacks on life and property are everywhere increasing unchecked. Mr Milling, the resident Magistrate at Weatport, County Mayo, died from wounds. Five shots were fired through a window in his house. No. arrests have yet been made. The parish priest denounced the assassins from the pulpit.

A Dublin message states that at Limerick a prisoner was shot in the neck and back during his rescue. He was carried off in a donkey-cart, and died. The corpse was hidden in a lonely house at Clare, where the police discovered it. and arrested the inmates.

The Government has proclaimed Limerick a military area, and is enforcing the Crimes Act of ISS2 in Ireland.

The Daily Mail's Dublin correspondent says if is reported that a secret society is responsible for the present series of organised murders. The terrorising of the community continues unchecked, despite Sinn Fein disavowals from the pulpits.