IRELAND.

Taranaki Daily News, 5 October 1920, Page 5

IRELAND.

— : —_ SKIRMISHES IN CORK, ASSASSINATION PLOT DENIED. By Telegraph.—Press Juja.— Copyright. Received Oct. 4, 7.35 p.m.

London, Oct. i. A series of skirmishes took place in Cork during the week-end, -Armed bands attacked police in tho darkness, and five constables were wounded, one fatally. Police a?id military patrols, assisted by a searchlight and bloodhounds, sought the assailants, fruitlessly. Though wounded one assailant left a long trail of blood. Dublin Castle declares that Mr. Arthur Griffiths' alleged assassination plot is totally untrue.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. MILITARY ACTIVITY. DE VALERA WANTS REPUBLIC. London, Oct. 3. There has been unusual military activity in Dublin to-day. The bridges leading to the city were guarded. The driver of a delivery van belonging to the Independent newspaper was arrested, and the van was seized. There was much revolver shooting in Drumcondra suburban area. Seven civilians and soldiers, under a sergeant, who were guarding the Drumcondra canal bridge, were wounded. The military were subsequently withdrawn. —Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. New York, Oct. 3. De Valera announced that he will petition the State Department for recognition of the Irish Republic. He added that he favored placing Ireland in a position similar to that of Cuba to the United States under the Piatt amendment, namely, Ireland to agree not to permit any foreign Power to obtain a footing on her soil which might form the base for an attack on Britain.— Aus.-N.Z. Cable. Assn. AN AMERICAN VIEW. New York, Oct. 3. Mr. Joplin. at Missouri, said: "Ireland, under the League of Nations, has a right to separate itself from Britaitt and establish its own government, waging such internal aggression as is necessary to accomplish this result. Article 10 does not bind the United States to aid Britain in the event that Ireland attempts separation. I shall consider it my duty, as a friend of peace and chief of the executive of a nation that is a member of the League, to invoke the Tight giverf me by article 11 and present the Irish case to the attention of the League, unless tho Irish question is settled before March 4. 1931."