IRISH AFFAIRS.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 3589, 28 September 1920, Page 5

IRISH AFFAIRS.

y FIGHTING IN BELFAST. THREE SINN FEINERS KILLED, LONDON, Sept. 26.

It is stated that the Sinn Fein is persisting in provoking trouble in Ulster by murdering police in Protest-, ant towns, hoping to discredit Ulster by arousing reprisals. Directly after the shipyard workers of Harland and 'Wolff withrew, refusing to work with Catholics, the Sinn Feiners shot four more policemen, killing one and seriously wounding three. Fierce faction fights immediately recommenced, three well-known Sinn Feiners being killed.

It is alleged that a party of five constables, armed with rifles, entered, the houses of two men at night and

one dead, the other being killed in the street.

The police fired over the heads of the rioters in order to secure their dispersal. The curfew order, which has just been withdrawn, wag : re-im-posed, Armoured cars are patrolling Belfast.

At a military inquiry into; the death of Mr Lynch, shot in a Dublin hotel,' a verdict that he was shot- bya member of the Crown forces in self-de-fence while in the execution of his duty was returned. AN EYE FOR AN EYE. POLICE TO MAKE REPRISALS.

A SENSATIONAL INTERVIEW

LONDON, Sept. 27

The Freeman’s Journal prints a sensational interview with Sir Nevil MacReady by an American interviewer. Sir -Nevil Macßeady denies that reprisals for assassinations of police officers were actuated by set policy of the Government, but if guerilla warfare by the Irish Republican army continued, and if policemen were murdered, the situation might demand a policy of reprisals; but the machinery of the law has broken down. The Constabulary felt there were no certain means of redress. It was only human that they should act on their own initiative. If the police were able to deal with the situation there would be no need for military in Ireland, but the impossibility of recruiting constabularly made it essential to recruit forces of law and order in England. The Daily News says that unless this virtual condemnation of reprisals is disowned, Sir Nevil Macßoady will be relieved of his post. EXPLOSION IN CORK. xveceived 9.50 a.m. LONDON, Sept. .27.

A big explosion occurred in the centre of Cork at two o’clock this morning, and shook the whole city. Kifle and machine-gun fire followed. A military search discloses that the front of a large drapery shop in. Patrick Street had been demolished. The military state that a bomb had been placed inside the window.