IRELAND.

Taranaki Daily News, 25 August 1920, Page 5

IRELAND.

POLICE OFFICER MURDERED. HUNGER STRIKERS WEAK. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Cop London, August "?• \ District Inspector Swanzy, who w ;ft ,iently'transferred from Cork, was mu' dered while going home from church"! l Lisburn to-day. Three men armed wti i rifles shot Inspector Swanzy wail* He. Was walking beside his mother ana sister in a street which was crowded wiiii worshippers. The assailants entered a waiting taxicab, firing at. but not injuring, Captain Woods. Commandant of the local Ulster Volunteers, who was not armed, but attempted to stop them. Subsequent rioting in Lisburn resulted in the Hibernian Hall and several shops being burned. Sergeant Craddock, while patrolling at Athlane, was shot dead. The courthouse at Bantry was burned. The police evacuated the adjoining barracks on the previous day. Sergeant Mannsell whs shot dead at Macroom. Thirty Sinn Fein hunger strikers in Cork gaol are in a weak condition. The Government refuses to release them. Two prison doctors received unsigned letters from the commander of the CorkBrigade of the Irish Republican Army threatening them with death if any hunger striker dies, but pointing out that that thoy can evade responsibility by resigning.

Archbishop Mannix, responding to a request from Freeman's Journal fori a message to the Irish people, urges thorn to be calm and linn under the insult offered to them and to him. Ireland, though suffering much, can afford to be patient. Her cause is almost won. The recent English naval victory added fuel to the flame it was meant to extinguish.