IRELAND.

Taranaki Daily News, 18 August 1919, Page 5

IRELAND.

OVERTHROWING CONSTITUTIONAL GOVERNMENT. CRIMES DESCRIBED. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. Received August 17, 5.5 p.m. London, August 14. An official memorandum reviews the recrudescence of crime in County Clare since January, and describes the determined attack on July 20 on the police hut at Inch, when three men were thrown out of windows of the hut and riddled with bullets, and four constables within returned the fire and beat off the assailants. A similar attack was made on the hut at Connolly, the conflict lasting an hour. Armed men attacked the Broadford barracks on August 3, and fired 200 shots, greatly damaging the building. One constable was wounded. Six or seven disguised men on August 5 enterp& the barrueks at Newmarket-on-Fcrgus, bound the police with ropes, seized carbines, revolvers, and ammunition, an! departed in three motor cars. A sergeant and constable, who were returning to Ilhinbawn, on August 4, were held up by armed men, who killed the constable outright. The sergeant died of wounds.

Two hundred police and military raided a mansion at Glandoe, County Cork, arrested four Sinn Peiners, seized a quantity of ammunition and Sinn Fein volunteer equipment, hauled down the Sinn Fein flag, and hoisted the Union Jack,'

Thirty amed men on August 8 attacked a hut at Moynoe. The attacks arc in furtherance of the avowed Sinn Fein policy to overthrow constitutional government in Ireland. The Government has decided to suppress the Sinn Fein and'kindrcd todies in the country as unlawful associations. There are riots and looting in Londonderry. Troops charged the inolw. Soldiers were atoned during a Sinn Fein demonstration.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.

Received August 10, 2.55 p.m. London, August 14. "The Government suppression of the Sinn Fein follows upon the Roman Catholic Bishop and also Dublin Corporation's denunciation of the campaign of terrorism and murder. The Government enumerates the outrages, beginning in 1917, and lapsing for a considerable period owing to wider and sterner military rule in 1018, but virulently revived in 1910. Armed bands have 'since attacked the police on nine occasions, and many other crimes have been committed.—Times Service. GRAVE DISORDERS. ANTICIPATED IN LONDONDERRY.

Received August 17, 5.5 p.m. London, August 15. The authorities are anticipating grare disorders in Londonderry. The military have prohibited a Nationalist and Sinn Fein Lady Day demonstration, which was to include a procession round the walls of the town.

Troops, for the first time since the siege of 'Derry, have occupied these Walls. Orangemen and other Unionists had expressed their determination to prevent anyone u°tog the walls for an antiBritiah parade.—Aus.-N.f. Cable Assn.