IRISH CRISIS.

Taranaki Daily News, 28 July 1920, Page 5

IRISH CRISIS.

FIRES AND SHOOTING.

ANTI-SINN FEIN CAMPAIGN.

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Received July 27, 11.35 p.m.

London, July 27. Five disguised men entered a timber yard in Bantry, County Cork, and set lire to the yard and adjoining flour stores, which were completely destroyed. The damage is estimated at £40,000. The destruction is believed to bo the action of opponents of Sinn Fein.

.Another anti-Sinn Fein fire occurred in drapery stores in Ballyanders.

No jurors attended Mulhern's inquest fit Bandon, and the inquiry was abandoned. (Reprisals for the outrage are feared. An encounter between raiders and police at Lixnaw, County Kerry, resulted in four policemen being dangerously wounded.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.

NEW FORMjy CRIME. RUSE TO ATTACK POLICE.

Received July 27, 7.35 p.m. London, July 26. A new phase of the Sinn Fein campaign has been entered upon. Twenty masked men held up three police returning from church at Streamstouen, Meath, and stripped them of their uniforms, and left them naked on the roadside. Sinn Feiners then dressed in the uniforms, gained admittance to the police barracks, and tried to carry it by assault by means of rifle fire, but the police were on the alert and repulsed the surprise attack. A taxi-driver named David Dunbar, ignoring a challenge, was shot dead by a sentry in Belfast.—Aus.-N.Z, Cable Assn.