TERRORISM.

Taranaki Daily News, 30 March 1920, Page 5

TERRORISM.

ATROCITIES IN IRELAND. WARNINGS OF DEATH GIVE-v By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. Received March 29, 11.30 p.m. London, March 29. The centre of interest in Irish affairs is moving to Westminster in view or to-day's debate on the Home Rule Bill. Mr. J. R. Clynes' motion for rejection enables a straight vote to be taken ou Home Rule. It is expected Mr. Asquith and Mr. Lloyd George will speak on Tuesday. Meanwhile, the atrocities in Ireland are exciting intense feeling in Britain. Warnings of coming assassination continue to be received. A Nationalist member of the House of Commons received a letter stating his life was wanted "in the cause of a free Ireland." Several prominent Sinn Feiners in Killygordon, County Donegal, had similar warnings, with drawings of a coffin on the notices. Mr. James McCarthy also received a, threatening letter, though he is not a member of any political party, and some consider his death was due to a private vendetta. When a knock came at his door he hesitated to open the door, and directly he gave his name to the knockers shots were fired. He fell, and his sister cried out, "Poor Jimmie's murdered." As she ran out for a priest a shot was aimed at Iter, but it missed. Inside the house the dying man collapsed in his brother's arms. His brother raised him, saying, "Say to €od you are sorry for your sins. I will ask Him to let you into Heaven. I "will say it was an act of contrition." James wa9 just conscious enough to nod and smile feebly, and then he died.—Aus.N.Z. Cable Assn.

MURDER OP A MAGISTRATE. DRAMATIC ARREST AT DUBLIN. London, March 27. Recent Sinn Fein propaganda describes Mr. Alan Bell (the Dublin magistrate who was assassinated) as having acted in the English Secret Service for 40 years He had always been in the closest touch with Dublin Castle. Bell had a loaded revolver, but the murderers sitting beside him acted so quickly that he had hot time to draw it. Another accomplice pulled the trolley pole from the overhead wire, stopping the tram. There was a dramatic arrest of five youths who were embarking on the Dublin ferry boat for Liverpool. Fifty police came alongside the steamer accompanied by an armored car, which brought a gun to bear on the gangway. Five of them were arrested and driven off to an unknown destination. It is understood the arrest is in connection with south Irish outrages.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable assii.

FIRES ON LINERS. ATTRIBUTED TO IRISH-AMERICANS. Received March 29, 11.30 p.m. London, March 29. Two fires, which occurred on board the liner Philadelphia at Southampton, are attributed to .Irish-Americans. A dozen cabins were burnt out and others were rimed by water. The damage amounts to seve.ui thousand pounds. The vessel's sailing has been postponed. There was a similar mysterious fire on the liner New York sailing from Southampton a fortnight ago.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. LEADER OF THE SOLDIERY. NEW APPOINTMENT MADE. Received March 20, 10.50 p.m. London, March 20. Sir Nevil Macßeady has resigned the Cl.ief Comniissionership of the Loudon police, and is going to Ireland to take charge of ihe soldiery. He was similarly called upon to quell the disturbances in Ulster in 1914. Sir Nevil Macßeady will have vastly greater powers than Lieutenant-General Sliaw. —Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. ANOTHER TRAGEDY REVEALED. Received March 29, 2.50 p.m. London, March 28. The body of a man, blindfolded, and with his hand* iied behind, and marked with many bullet wounds, was found in a field at Newcastle, County Linvcrick. — Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. POLICE BARRACKS BLOWN UP. Received March 29, 8.5 p.m. London. March 28. Sinn Feiners l>!ev, r lip the police barracks at Tournafoulla, in County Limerick. The pmuhus were temporarily vacant.—Aus.-N.2. Cable Assn. ROUND-UP OF SINN FEINERS. London, March 26. Thirty-five prominent Sinn Feiners were arrested at to-day's round-up in Dublin.