RED IRELAND.

Taranaki Daily News, 1 April 1920, Page 5

RED IRELAND.

WORK OF MURDER GANGS. GRAVE PERIL TO THE COUNTRY. Ey Telegraph—-Press Assn —Copyright. Received March 31, 1.45 p.m. London, March 2f). Details regarding" the Irish outrages show that the murderers usually work in gangs. Ten crack shots are chosen "to pick off the victims, while others act as outposts. The Government has secured evidence of almost incredible sums paid to some nrurder gangs. Anyone visiting Dublin Castle, the approaches to which are continuously watched, becomes a. marked man. High Government officials no longer dare leave the Castle to visit tlieir own families.

The Sunday Express states a Nationalist member of the House of Commons received a written warning marked with a black cross, intimating his life was wanted in the oauae of a free Ireland. Mr. J. L. Garvin (editor of the Observer) declares the atrocities sire almost surpassing those of the Bolsheviks, and are awaking a new temper in Ulster, threatening to rend Ireland asunder and for ever. It is useless to talk of Dominion Home Rule; the Government must go straight ahead on its own lines.—United Service.

ARMS PROM GERMANY.

SMUGGLED GUNS CAPTURED. Received March 31, 1.45 p.m. London, March 20. Following the recent seizure of smuggled guns, the Admiralty detained tlie captains of two ships and secured details of a scheme for supplying Sinn Feiners with great quantities of arms. The ringleader operates in Hamburg, posing as a German nobleman.—United Service. THE WAR ON POLICE. MORE SHOCKING TRAGEDIES. London, March 30. Placards throughout southern Ireland signed by "The General Officer Commanding the Irish Republican Army,'* proclaim the suppression of (lie Royal Irish Constabulary. It describes (hem as traitors, bloodhounds, and spies, conspiring with the enemy to outrage lawabiding and peaceful people. It wanis prospective recruits that they join at their own peril. It is rumored in Cork that at !l meeting of the Irish Republican Bt'otheruood just before MacCurtainV murder, at" which MaeCurtain was present, several members were expelled, apparently because they were unwilling to ?ontinue the policy of murder. One who was expelled was shot after leaving the meeting. MacCurtain'i death is attributed to a similar cause. Tt is asserted that recent murders attributed to Sinn Fein were carried out by groups of hired assassins paid by an American organisation. Armed men with blackened faces shot dead Thomas Dwyer, aged 25, in his house at Thurles. ' This is the third murder in Tippcrary in three days. Later particulars show Iha t Dwyer was a publican and brother of a priest in the Australian Mission. Ilis sister, Mrs, Delaney, asked the men who knocked at the door through the keyhole who they were. l; Friends," was the reply. "Is Tom inside?" Mrs. Dclaney replied: "He is not liere." The men broke down the door, and Dwyer, who had been asleep upstairs, came down and met five riflemen. One covered his sister with a rifle, and the rest fired, and Dwyer fell, riddled with bullets. As he lay on the ground one of his assailants asked him if lie liad had enough. Another said; "Give him another." A final shot was fired into the body. One of the murderers then asked Mrs. Delaney: "Is there anyone else to be shot?" and left, slamming the door and firing further shots outside, apparently for the purpose of general terrorism. Almost simultaneously there was an explosion in the house of Richard Small, who is a poor law guardian, which wrecked the front of his shop. Thurles has been the scene of several murders during recent months. Mr. Bell's assassination was apparently arranged to the minutest- detail. Four fellow passengers waited for & moment when the tramcar stopped, and one tapped him on the shoulder and said: "Your time has come." Bell was forcibly removed to the foot-path and photdead. The assassins then walked oil' in an unconcerned manner and separated. BAKER SHOT DEAD. Received March 31, 1.45 p.m. London, March 2S. James McCarthy, a baker, at Tlmrles, responding to a knock at his door after midnight on Friday, was shot dead. His brother accuses the police.—AU3.-N.Z. Cable Assn.