IRELAND.

Taranaki Daily News, 3 May 1920, Page 2

IRELAND.

SINN FEIN ACTIVITIES. \ By Telegraph— Press Asan.—Copyrl<*t. London, April 29. A raid was made on the police barracks at the village of Rush, 15 miles from Dublin. Telegraphic communication was cut and the connections between Dublin and the north of Ireland seriously hampered. Information regarding the rakl is sparse.,,.lt is, reported that the roof of the barracks was blown off, and the sergeant commanding the defenders fatally injured. The Ban try mail train was held up at Kinsale Junction by a party of armed masked men, and two m:i)l lip.™; extracted. • The roads surrounding the junction are strongly guarded. This is the third time the train has been robbed. RECOVERY OF STOLEN CASH. London, April 30, A large number of police at Wormwood Scrubbs cleared away the crowds of Sinn Feiners and their opponents by nightfall before the free fights became serious. There more hunger-strikers have been sent to a nursing home. The Crime Court at Mayo sentenced six men to a month's imprisonment for I coercing a farmer to surrender land under threat of death. | The Dublin correspondent of the Daily Chonicle says that half of the £IB,OOO stolen from Mill street has been recovered and probably the rest will soon be found. Gold and notes were found in strange places', including an oven, in a silver teapot, buried in turf, in a saucepan and sunk in a bog. Notes were nailed to the underpart of a dresser. Six of the kidnapped men are in a secret prison largely surrounded by water and protected by barbed wire. They are allowed two'hours' exercise daily, also tobacco and milk. A screen of scouts exercises perpetual vigilance to prevent surprise of the prison by a hostile party.— Aua.-N.Z. Cable Assn.

MORE HNUGER-STRIKING. London, April 30. A hundred and fifty prisoners are hunger-striking in Dublin. General Macßeady, interviewed, indicated that the policy of silence had been abandoned. He himself was prepared to receive newspaper men and explain all the facts regarding outrages in the possession of the military. Another batch of ' Sein Feiners has been brought to London. Soldiers escorted sixteen motor lorries to Wormwood Scrubbs. Pour thousand Liverpool dockers struck to-day as a protest against the imprisonment of Sinn Feiners at Wormwood Scrubbs, but work at the port was hardly affected. Jn the raid on the police barracks at Rush the sergeant in charge was senoualy injured and later died.