IRISH CRISIS.

Taranaki Daily News, 23 July 1920, Page 5

IRISH CRISIS.

EARLY MORNING RAID.

yOLXCB FIGHT SINN FEMEBS. WILD SCENES FOLLOW. -•l Wurwfc.—Ems Ana.—Coprritfit. London, July 20. rtro constables' who were motoring through Ttum from the Railway Assizes, discovered the road blocked with trees. Both alighted and immediately were shot dead. '*'•'\- Twp other constables in a rear car told, ftrtarms ' against the ambushed party j>t M joea till their ammunition. wm exhausted. They were eventually overpowered and blindfolded. When news of the outrage Bpread, wild -aaaae* oeewred. Reports-state that <s#.- spUee and military completely 1 sajikeo Tu«n, fired shots into houses ai4 «hpps> set fire to demolished busip*eini|BS, and gutted the town hall." . '" The rifle fire and explosion of hand jOddttd** and bombs terrified the inhabl-

' Aaata, aatt of whom -were injured. .}, ;s£*&' ilia bodies of the Tuam cou«iahles' were brought into the barracks trftsd in white sheets, it enraged the constables, and they apparently determined to give the Sinn Feiners the fight 4 of their lives. The town was awakened at 6 o'clock 1 with volleys of rifle shots and grenade explosions. Fifty to 100 police were running amok in the streets, crying. "Where are the d»mned Sinn Feiners." They dragged vgnto fityn their beds, threatening to Idff tnemi'-aa they had killed the conajables* Shots wero fired • aDOTewenTieads. Toe houses of prominent Sinn Feiners were burnt, also the Town Hall, where tiff Sinn Fein eourt was held. Woaisn and children, terrified, huddled fa tie, back gardens', reciting the rosary. The police officers in Tiiam assert that the men onlyy got out of hand when the town. Jpttbegan to fire upon them.— Cable Assn.

GBRLS* HAIR CUT. BECAUSE THEY WENT WITH SOLDIERS. Received July 22, 7.45 p.m. _ '" London, July 21. fie entire criminal business at the dork WM abandoned owing to the absence of jurors. " fefit men lit Cock aster'-ed two girls tweMwr, they walked in company with aoldiew. The assailants cut the girls'' hair off, < .They cleared- the public from tM sttttet during the incident. ' A large crowd of Larkin's sympMnilfeM, armed with revolvers, occupied twDnt4h» Corporation fish markets and otjittqd -tjle workers to cease work as a S' tut- against Laridn's arrest. The rfcsta tfere dosed.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Asm. Dublin, July 20. The Trades Council has ordered a geneni! *ttfke to take effect in 48 hours itpm, tyHn&ht ' n support of the demand for Leritlli's release from imprisonment in tie Unite* States. The transport leftwe to participate.—Aus.-N.Z. OM»b Amii. WAH ON POLICEMEN. London, July 20. Sinn Fein Bunders of police total fe itetft th&Hew Year.