IRELAND.

Taranaki Daily News, 15 May 1920, Page 5

IRELAND.

SPRfiAD OF TERRORISM. SERIES OP BOLD CRIMES. tt Ttltsnph.—Preu Ann.—Copyiigut, Dublin, May 13. Aneff series of outrages, apparently concerted, in many parts of Ireland in-clude-the destruction of the police barrack! at Ballybrack, Bessborough, KillogtMge, Carrickby, Carrigan and Camlourfi. It is noteworthy that BessborougVia only half » mile distant from Vice-Segal Lodge. The attackers Cttt the telegraphs, dislocating communication. with .Dublin and provincial tenfrei.

. Other , parties hurned down the Bantry Cmtonu offices. Armed and masked meaheld up the Kilcommon-Neuagh mail Mi Mixed police correspondence. Aaothw jsrty seized and tarred P. Sheehy.of Skilbereen, an editor. The Utotne tax office, housed in the Scottisij Provident Building in Belfast, WUL- tftutd by masked men. The nldp (Bptled the shelves and desks, piled tlu income tax documents on the floor,- tfiere they were saturated with petrol, and set them on fire. The raiders then decamped. No arrests were •ffected,

BUBNtNG AND SHOOTING. , IyU&SD RAIDERS AT WORK, peoeived May 14, 7.20 p.m. London, May 13. The pUjlice barracks at Carrigard, in and Kolleter, in Tyrone, have beeh destroyed by masked raiders. Milked raiders also held up clerks in the Belfast Income Tax Office and deitftyai all the'papers, but the fire brig-, adfe tared the building. ' ■The Customs Office at Bantry was fompletely destroyed, after the books and documents had been piled In a bonfire.

Similar outages were perpetrated at the Old Age Pensions Office at Newton Stewart; the Income Tax Office, at Londondonerry, and the Inland Revenud Office at Eufafcillen.

Eight masked men raided the Down Patrick excise office, and stole a quantity of documents. A clergyman living Bftrt door Was shot in the thigh while assisting- the caretaker. Aus.-NZ. o*Me Attn.

Received May 14, 7.5S p.m. • ' London, May 13. Irish 1 4MtfAges include the burning of police feanraokg in the suburbs of Cork. Explosives were used to complete the destruction. Hie Rev. Wilkinson, canon of Down Cathedral, was thei clergyman shot in tie thigh when endeavoring to stop the .raid on Down Patrick excise office. — united Service. Received May 14, 8.45 p.m. London, May 13Masked men captured the mail between Nonagh and Thurles, seizing a number of police documents. The mail train was raided at Midletdn, and the constabulary mail* captured. r-Aus.-XJI. Cable Assn.

DAY OF GUERILLA WARFARE. CHILDREN WATCH HOMES BURN. Received May 14, 11.40 p.m. London, May 14. Yesterday's outbreak of guerilla wartiife in Ireland recalls the Easter outrages. Bombs were used in a number of eases. A human hand was found near one raid, apparently "having been accidentally blown off a Sinn Feiner. Most of the police barracks were unoccupied, and the destruction was quite Wtnton. The cost will fall on the local ratepayers, many of whom are Sinn Feiners. Where barracks were occupied by ■ergeants, their families were bundled out in the. small hours of the morning by armed and masked men. Children were terrified to see' their homes burning.—Aus.SS. <ftble Assn.

TRAGEDY OP BOY'S DEATH. HEIGHBORS REFUSE ASSISTANCE. Received May 14, 11-40 p.m. London, May 13. The Government has appointed a commksion of inquiry touching a story jtold at a Belfast inquest. A boy was shot in ft field'and his father stated he found the boy lying beside two horses, which Wen also shot. The dead boy caid neighbors, whose he would not disclose, committed tfce outrage. The father went to a neighbor's house and asked for water, Which wat refused. Two men in a field, when asked for assistance, turned their backs upon him, and others declined to fetch a priest. The father liter procured help and carried the boy to his house, where he died. A verdict of murder by persons unknown WM returned.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable 4m. K MOBE POLICE SENT. A TASK FOR EX-SOLDIERS. Received May 14, 11.40 p.m. London, May 14. Lord Birkenhead (the Lord Chancellor), speaking at a newspaper Press Fund gathering, said .the Government h*d just taken special and wholly exceptional steps to reinforce the Irish Constabulary Force, whose moral had never faltered-

He added: "They will know when tten go upon a most dangerous task tonight that the Government is adding to their number men who have already fought for the Empire, and are now going to devote themselves to the task of determining whether the murderersin Ireland aire strong enough to destroy the Empire."—Aua.-N.Z. Cable Asm.

CHIEF SECRETARY'S POLICY. - London, May IJ. Sir Hamar Greenwood (Chief Secre* tary for Ireland) interviewed in Dublin, said: '-Since ply appointment I have fliflmed no deportation orders and have released many prisoners arrested on suspicion after personally examining the grounds On which suspicion was based I nertonally ordered' Alderman O'Brien's rMeA**. / "Thesis things show I am carrying ont the Intention to try to establish normal lire In Ireland, including'normal profeeding* in the Courts of Justice; I nnr expressing the view* of my countrym<"! and the world when I say that the '/ police, -deserve-theadmim-o, all. and that the Government • v«"(jiU l '-?•!- dutY to..thfim.-'rx-As .>.Z (J»V(e Asm.