IRISH AFFAIRS.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 3657, 20 December 1920, Page 5

IRISH AFFAIRS.

STRONGHOLD. DISCOVERED. """% . LONDON, Dec. 17. The police discovered the shelter of wanted Sinn Feiners in the moun. tains between Glogher and Monaghan The shelter as equipped with expen isive furniture commandjeered from a mansion, and contained a large quantity of steel helmets and mili tary equipment. Seven were arrested THE CORK INQUIRY. LONDON, Dec. 17. A correspondent at Cork states that the great stumbling block to the military inquiry which is Opening on Saturday is tthe difficulty of getting civilian witnesses to come forward owing to intimidation and suspicion. Ireland is a. kind of whispering gallery, and Cork is one of its most secret corners. It is a city with secret corners. In the city with fingers to their lips, the people among confidence is immediately broken at the approach of a stranger. THE MURDER OF CANON MAGNAR. DRUNKEN CADET'S ABOMINABLE ACT. LONDON, Dec. 19. Evidence given by the - auxiliary police at the military inquiry ■at Dunnaway into the shooting of Canon Magnar revealed that Cadet Harte was bordering on delirium tremens. Harte after shooting Crowley, approached Canon Magnar, seized the priest's hat and threw it on the ground. He made the priest kneel on the road and fired at him,-wonii'L ing, him. He then fired again, this time fatally. Hajrte searched the priest's pockets scattering the content's on the ground. A MONASTERY RAIDED. LONDON, Doc. 18. The military raided the Cauphin Monastery at Dublin and made a minute search. Pathep Dominic, McSwineyfs chaplain was arrested.