IRISH CRISIS.

Taranaki Daily News, 8 September 1920, Page 5

IRISH CRISIS.

THE HUNGER STRIKER. BELEA3E IF MURDERS CEASE. tf MejMßh—Pmu Inn.—Copjilfht. Received Sept. 7, 8.45 p.m. ' London, Sept. 7. Mr. Lloyd George states that if appeals for the.release of McSweeney are accompanied by guarantees that murders will cease, McSweeney and other hungerstriken will be released, but unconditftiat nkaae would have a disastrous MWIt on "the morale of the Irish police. —Ai».-N.Z: Cable Assn. TERRORISM CONTINUES. TREATMENT OF ALLEGED SPIES. Received Sept. 7, 8.5 p.m. Dublin, Sept. 7. . I'Se Dublin .Corporation has reduced the wages and salaries of their em-twenty-five per cent owing to th» Government withholding grants to thr«ttent of £200,000. r Armedmen at Strokestown, Roacommba, visited a house, took a man from his bed into the road in his nightgown, atf 'accused him of being a spy. He was ordered the choice of death or leaving the district. The man chose to tytfre, -and went away under lie superviaioh of his intimidatore. Another mysterious crime was discovered owing to the ; washiirg ashore of a liody, near Cloyne, lashed to as axle''tree flif try means of a strong wire Around the arms and legs. It is belief tile man was a spy whom Sinn. Feino»p caught and tied to a cartwheel, and thendJro've tie cart over a eliff,— Cable Assn.