IRISH AFFAIRS.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 3618, 3 November 1920, Page 5

IRISH AFFAIRS.

T' OUTRAGES IN KERRY. LONDON, Nov. 1. A series of outrages • occurred in County Kerry yesterday, four police being killed and six wounded. ■ Subsequently a lorry load of men set fir© to'■ and destroyed the Town Hall and some shops at Tralee. ‘ -< SPECIALS IN BELFAST. 10,000 TO BE ENROLLED. LONDON, Nov. 1. A proclamation has been issued authorising the enrolment of special constables at Belfast and 1 County Tyrone. This is the first application of the Government’s new Scheme under which ten thousand will be required for Belfast SERIES OF OUTRAGES. !: . ,:! PREMEDITATED ATTACKS, Received 9.5 a.m. LONDON, Nov. 2. Telegrams from Dublin state * that the series of outrages seem to suggest a premeditated attack on the Royal •Irish Constabulary throughout the country; Between Sunday night and noon on Monday attempts were made on the lives of forty-two policemen. ' 6 - FURTHER REPRISALS. -TERRORISM IN TRALEE. Received 9.30 a.m. LONDON, Nov. 2. Further reprisals are reported at Tralee. Uniformed men fired ■-through the streets, one man being killed and several wounded. Notices posted in Tralee state that unless two policemen now in the custody of the Sinn Feiners are released by the morning, reprisals of a character unprecedented in Ireland will occur in Tralee. It is reported that the bodies of the two missing men have been found in a field outside the town riddled with bullets, and the inhabitants, expecting a nighff of terror, are fleeing. The , shops are shuttered and the streets are deserted. . ’ 1

One hundred and twenty men »w----bushed a police patrol at Carrick, on the Shannon. One was killed, three wounded, and the remainder, with ■ a lorry, were captured. COURT-MARTIAL TOR SOLDIERS. Received 11.50 a.m. LONDON, Nov. 2. Mr Churchill, in the House of Commons, stated that as a result of inquiries into recent events in Ireland, several non-coms and men will be court-martialled. REPRISALS AT TULLAMORE. LONDON, Nov. 2.

Reprisals at Tullamore consisted of the destruction of a cinema and the trade union hail. Severe damage was done to the entire block, including £he jpffices of the newspaper Independent. SIX POLICE KILLED. LONDON, Nov. 1. During the week-end police casual-

ties in Ireland were six killed and nine wounded. In addition to the Tralee reprisals there was the destruction of many shops by bombs ancPpetrol at' ’Dungannon, looting ht Tipperary and the destruction of a creamery and cottages at Ballyduff.