IRISH DISORDERS.

Taranaki Daily News, 1 December 1920, Page 5

IRISH DISORDERS.

| ARREST OF REPUBLICANS. ( TROUBLE IN CORE. —* By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. Received Nov. 30, 7-55 p.m. London, Nov. 29. Four men of high rank in the Republican Army, named Keys, Cotter, Donegan, and J. Sullivan, were captured outside Bantry owing to their motor ear breaking down. The military chanced to come on the scene and the men fled, but they were pursued and captured. A military party raided the* Clare lunatic asylum. One of the inmates did not obey an order to halt, and was shot dead. An attendant was arrested. Disorder prevailed all day long in Cork. While the municipal fire brigade was proceeding to put out an incendiary fire an armed party opened fire and compelled the fire engine to go back to the station.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable AssnLondon, Nov. 28. ' The damage through the arson reprisals for the missing officers at Cork exceeds a quarter of a million. Thev occupants of the buildings were warned in writing immediately to vacate the premises or to take the consequences, the notice being signed "Black and Tans; God Save the King." The Cork headquarters of .the General Workers' Transport Union were destroyed by fire. Bombs were used to ignite the premises.

COMB-OUT IN DUBLIN. THREE HUNDRED ARRESTS. Received Nov. 3tf, 5.5 p.m. London, Nov. 29. The military continue to comb out Dublin. There were fifty arrests during the week-end, and the week's total is three hundred. The imposition of the ten o'clock curfew is causing theatres to close.—Aua.-N.Z. Cable As3n. A SINN FEIN AMBUSH. FIFTEEN MURDERED. London, Nov. 20. Sinn Feiners ambuhhe<j("blaak and tans" at Kilmichael, County Cork. They killed 15, another is dying, and one is missing. The military authorities at Londonderry have been informed that a number of Irish-American gunmen have arrived there. Certain officers have received notices threatening,a similar fate to those recently assassinated in Dublin, unless they leave Ireland. Another story states that American gunmen landed from motor boats on the North Walgs coast and participated in the Liverpool outrages.