UNREST IN IRELAND.

Taranaki Daily News, 13 August 1920, Page 5

UNREST IN IRELAND.

ATTACK ON A MONASTERY. By Telesraph.—Press Aasn—Copyright. Received August 12, 9.15 p.m. London, August 12. A telegram from Belfast states that at an inquest on a priest killed by a military volley while walking in a corridor of the Clonard monastery, a veidjet was returned that the firing was entirely unnecessary to suppress the riots, which were not provoked by anyone -within,,the monastery. The Jury added that the soldiers who fired should have been called to give evidence at the inquest. The rector gave evidence that when he heard bullets spattering on the monastery walls he called the brethren together. Father Morgan did not respond, and he was found dead in the upper corridor. The rector, approaching with holy oil to annoint the body, had a miraculous escape. The firing was repeated, and a bullet passed through the face and body, which were subsequently dragged from the windows. The, brethren were terrified at the continued firing, and asked the rector to give them the last rites preparing tllem for death.—Aus. and N.Z. Cable Assn.

NO PEACE NEGOTIATIONS. Received August 12, 11.40 p.m. London, August 12. A Sinn Fein bulletin denies that Britain has entered into negotiations witli the Irish Republic—Aus. and N.Z. Cable Assn.