IRISH AFFAIRS.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 3662, 28 December 1920, Page 5

IRISH AFFAIRS.

CHRISTMAS IN IRELAND A QUIET SPELL LONDON, December 26 The Irish Office announces that a group of Sinn Feiners in Dublin fired on a group of unarmed military, wounding one. Excepting a few incidents of row. dyism the holidays passed off quietly throughout Ireland. ' FIGHT WITH ARMED CIVILIANS. IN HARTAL LAW AREA. Received 9.20 a.m! LONDON, Dec. 27. \ Grown forces surprised a dance meeting at Brufr,. Limerick, within martial law area. The farces were ! fired on from the hall and a policeI man was killed. The fire was returned and five civilians were killed, I All bore arms, and 138 prisoners i were detained. \ D’ANNUNZIO’S CAMPAIGN. FIGHTING AT FIUME. Received 9.30 a.m. PARIS, Dec. 27. The Foreign Office has been advised that six were killed and many wounded in the fighting around Plume. FIGHTING AT ZARA. TOWN BESEIGED FOR FIVE DAYS.

.. Received ’9.30 a.im ROME, Dec. 27. Legionaries at Zara, on the 25th, .captured the small war vessel Marsala. The crew refused to mutiny and torpedoers were ordered to retake or sink the Marsala. The cap. tors surrendered the vessel and them, selves. Regulars besieged Zara for five days and the Legionaries capitulated after fighting wherein several I’cgulars were killed and twenty-five wounded.

GERMAN ARMAMENTS FRENCH MINISTER RESIGNS. PROTEST AGAINST RETRENCHMENT. Received 9.30 a.m. * PARIS, Dec. 27. During the debate in the Chamber on the foreign policy, ex War Minister Lefevre explained that his resignation was mainly due to the Finance Ministry's demand for cuffing down the army estimates, with which he did not agree. He asserted that Germany was not trying to reconstitute her armaments as shown by the fact that she still possessed tens of thousands of machine-guns, millions of rifles, and a number of field- guns. Germany was also concealing eleven hundred gun breeches in a secret depot, whilst not a single model had been discovered of the two latest machine guns, one of which was capable of firing 1500 shats per nor of anti-aircraft guns, and another intended to be used for firing on the trenches from aircraft. M. Lefevre asked for the maintenance of military forces which were indispensable if a barricade between Germany and Bolshevism was to be kept up.