TERRORISM.

Taranaki Daily News, 6 April 1920, Page 5

TERRORISM.

BELFAST'S TERRIBLE EASTER. CAMPAIGN OF DESTRUCTION. tj Telegraph.—Pre* Assn.—Copyright. Received April 5, 6.5 p.m. London, April 4. After the wires running to Dublin were cut, isolating Belfast, gangs of criminals entered the Grand Central Hotel, which accommodated the pensions, labor, and other departments; also the Bank of Ireland at Queensbridge, at night time, and destroyed many document's. Fires were afterwards discovered and extinguished by the fire brigade. There were *hree separate fires in the incometax offices, also in that of the surveyors, trot the only office seriously damaged was Blair's, in North Street. Armed police are now guarding the eitv post offices and public buildings in Belfast, which remains calm. *fhe cable from Whitehead to England was cnt. The alarmist predictions of an uprising during Easter were apparently a Wind to the unfoween but carefully Shtrmed programme of destruction in overnment offices in various parts of Ireland.—Ans.-NZ. Cable Assn. Received April 5, 7.55 p.m. London, April 5. Dublin Castle authorities, on Sunday .afternoon, received reports of the destruction of fifty barracks, nearly all of which were previously vacated. There were also fires in seventeen taxation offices.—Aus.-N.Z- Cable Assn. tTAR AGAINST AUTHORITY. COVEBNMENT CORRESPONDENCE : "<;■ BURNT. Received April 5, 7 p.m. London, April 4. The fire brigade at Dublin was engaged for three hours last night coping with eight separate fires in the incometax collectors' and surveyors' offices in different parts of the city. Before the "fires were subdued masses of important correspondence and documents were destroyed, which doubtless was the incendiaries' object. The caretakers were previously held up with revolvers. Similarly two fires occurred in the , pensions and inland revenue offices at Cork, separated by half a mileMany rounds of revolver ammunition were seized on board a vessel reaching .Londonderry on Saturday, The governor of Londonderry Gaol refused to allow t">e Nationalist mayor of the city to see Sinn Fern prisoners, he not itavihg taken the oath of allegiance. the Plough police station in County Down was blown up during the night, and numerous raids were made on police barracks in various parts of the province. The stations at Loughbrickfand, Rostrevor, and Trillick were blown up or burned down, the occupants having previously withdrawn to the safety of the larger towns.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Atsa. A DASTARDLY CRIME. 80N SHOT BEFORE PARENTS. Received April 5, 8.25 p.m. London, April 4. . Other bararcks burned and destroyed in Ireland include three in County Limerick, and twelve in County Clare. The authorities declare the cr.ly in'convenience resulting from t!:c destruction of the fevenue records will be felt by taxpayers. ' ' Twenty armed raiders entered a house in Clara, a market town in Kings County, and dragged a youth named Kierman Flyltn into the y;rd, while they forced his father, mother and sister to sit in chain in the yard. Then they ordered Kierman to stanJ and he was then shot. He Hen in a critical condition.—Aus.JU. Cable Assn.

-HO&E CATTLE DRIVES. MANY PROPERTIES CLEARED. Bweived April 5, 7 p.m. London, April 3. Eighteen hundred men participated in » huge cattle drive in Galway, clearing thousands of acres. The police were powerless. Many smaller drives are occurring m Mayo, and there were three drives to-day yi the Ballghaunes distict The residence 'of General Lewin, a lanre land-owner, was attacked. The military arrived on the scene and fired oiter the heads of the fleeing drovers. They arrested six — Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. BeceiTJtl .ffril 5, 7 pm. London, April 4. . Judge Kenny imposed a local levy of £SOOO to compensate the relatives of D. Hunt, shot dead at Thurles. The County Court of {Tipperary similarly awarded to the relatives- of Sergeant Brady, killed at Lorrha, £2000; and to the relative* of Constable Folcv. wounded on the sa«e occasion, £23oo.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Amu. . SIKN FEIN FLAG FLIES, POLICE BARRACKS BURNED. Received April 5, 7 pm. Condon, April 4. The Shn Fein flag is flying from the flagstaff on the Admiralty pier at Queenstown, the Feiners having cot the, lalyards and greased the flagstaff to prevent its removal. Comnrtmication with Belfast has been restored. • the police barracks at Blackwatertown and Ballynascanlon were burned ' down. » Masked men unsuccessfully attempted Jo bum the revenue offices at Dundalk Island.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.