IRISH CRISIS.

Taranaki Daily News, 29 June 1920, Page 5

IRISH CRISIS.

CAMPAIGN OF TERRORISM. POLICE BARRACKS DESTROYED. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. Received June 28, 5.5 p.m. London, June 28. Disguised men raided a fishing hut at Castle Mownroehe, County Cork, where Brigadier-General Lucas and two colonels were sleeping after a day's sport. The raiders seized the sleepers in the name of the Irish Republic. They also peized a motor-car, from which one of the colonels jumped in attempting to I escape. He wa 3 shot seriously, and the ( other colonel was- permitted to attend j to his colleague, who was taken to the ; Fermov hospital. | The Sinn Feinors departed with GenI ( r:il, Lucas to an unknown destination. Two to three hundred armed men att«cked Borroiskane barracks, near Menagh, in the early hours. A sergeant I and six constables stubbornly defended, | firing' for three hours. | Tli.: attackers threw turf sods satui rated With petrol, setting fire to the i barracks roof. The bunding was ahat- | tered. ; Tim raiders departed at daybreak. It I h b"!ieved tliey suffered casualties.— | Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. | QUIET IK LONDONDERRY. | NO MORE TROOPS REQUIRED. London. June 27. Londonderry was undisturbed through-, out Saturday. There were 110 further arrivals of troops during the week-end. It is reported that 20 Sinn Fein victims of shooting were secretly buried. —Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.