IRISH AFFAIRS.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 3593, 4 October 1920, Page 5

IRISH AFFAIRS.

POLICE PARTY AMBUSHED. | — j INSPECTOR AND CONSTABLES j KILLED. ( LONDON, October 1. Sinn Feiners ambushed a party of police at Tubbercurry, Sligo, killed District Inspector Brady, and wounded two constables seriously. Two eon- j stables were killed in County Clare. UNUSUAL MILITARY ACTIVITY. | 1 Received 9.30 a.xn. j ‘LONDON, October 3. j There has been unusual military ae- ' tivity in Dublin to-day, and all bridges leading to the city were guarded. The driver of a delivery van belonging to the Independent (a newspaper), was arrested and the van seized. There was much revolver shootingin the Drumcondra suburban area. Seven civilians and soldiers ilnder a sergeant, guarding Ihe Drumcondra j Canal bridge, were wounded and the i military were subsequently withdrawn. THE IRISH REPUBLIC. *'■ DE VALERA’S VIEWS. Received 9-30 a.m. NEW YORK, October 3. De Valera has. announced that he will petition the State Department for recognition of the Irish Republic, and added, that he favoured placing Ireland in a position similar to that of Cuba to the United States under the Platt Amendment: namely, Ireland 'to agree not eo permit any foreign power to obtain a footing on her soil, which might form a base of attack on Britain. 1 GERMANY ’ S OBLIGATIONS. PROMISE OF FULFILMENT. Received 9.5 a.m. PARIS, October 3. Dr. Mayer visited M. Leygues and emphasised the German Government's resolve to carry out the treaty in its entirety. M. Leygues replied that in that case the French Government would, do its best to restore normal relations between the two conn lies. Dr. Mayer declared that the German Government particularly desired the re-establishment of economic relations.