WAR ON POLICE.

Taranaki Daily News, 11 September 1920, Page 5

WAR ON POLICE.

A STRIKING ADMISSION. SINN FEIN BOLICY REVEALED. Bjf Pmn Asm. l —Copyright. Received Sept. 10, 5.5 p.m. London, Sept. 9. The official organ of the Irish Volunteers, captured at Cork, provides an illuminating insight into the avowed purposes of the present Sinn Fein campaign of murders. The paper declares that to-day the firM line of the enemy and the chief ii>-i.;ument of executive power has broken down and ceased to be effective; the Irish Constabulary have been driven from their outpoatj, and nearly five hundred of their strongholds have been evacuated and destroyed. They were forced to concentrate only in certain strong centres, where, in some parts of the country, they were in the position of a beleaguered garrison. They were no longer effective for the purpose for which they were intended, namely, the maintenance of ordinary civilian law and order, upon which every civilisation depends.—Reuter Service. * POLICEMEN AMBUSHED. , DESPERATE FIGHT AT GALWAY. Received Sept. 10, 8.5 p.m.. London, Sept. 9. Four constables were ambushed at Tullow, and two were killed. At the Galway railway station at midnight, Sinn Feiners shot dead Con-, stable Krumrn, an ex-soldier. In a desperate struggle Krumm killed three of his assailants and wounded others. Subsequently the homes of civilian volunteers were raided. One man was dragged from his bed and tied to a lamp post, where' he received nine bullets, and he died.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.