IRELAND

Taranaki Daily News, 15 December 1920, Page 5

IRELAND

LOOTING AND BURGLARY.

ANOTHER PATROL AMBUSHED.

-PLUCKY FIGHT BY POLICE,

CROWN FORCES DEFENDED,

By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright.

Received Dec, 14, 7.40 p.m.

London, Dec. 13. Considerable looting took place in Cork outside the fire zone.

Burglars raided a jeweller's, securing the keys of the strong room at the point of a revolver. The police fired, killing a woman burglar. A military patrol was ambushed at Cloyne. Bombs were thrown from two houses. Two of the attackers were killed, several wounded, two were taken prisoner, and one soldier was wounded.

Sinn Feiner3, attacked the Ballinalee police barracks, and, after five hours' fighting, the wall was blown out, but the police succeeded in holding the building. One policeman was killed and three severely wounded. Sir Hamar Greenwood, in the House of Commons, protested vigorously against the suggestion that the fires in Cork were started by # the forces of the Crown. There was evidence that incendiary bombs were used, of which the Crown forces possessed none, but the Sinn Feiners did. The House of Commons negatived Commander Kenworthy's motion for an adjournment. He said he had evidence that the outrages in Cork were due to officers and Crown forces. Soldiers had been committing murders nightly in Cork City, while hundreds of shops had been looted and the citizens publicly whipped.

Sir Hamar Greenwood, in replying, said that martial law meant earnest discipline of the forces of the Crown. As a matter of fact, the soldiers saved Cork from absolute d(tstruotion, lor, when the fire brigade was exhausted, the soldiers and police took over the work. There was no evidence that the police caused the fires, except in a few instances where bombs were thrown into a lorry.—Aus. and N.Z. Cable Assn.

THE PEACE PROPOSALS. O'FLANAGAN LACKS AUTHORITY.

Received Dec. 14, 5.5 p.m,

London, Dec. 13. Replying to Mr. Lloyd George's letter, Father O'Flanagan states that it is necessary for him to consult Griffiths and De Valera before expressing any opinion regarding the possibility of practical progress on the lines indicated Aus. and N.Z. Cable Assn.

A NIGHT OF HORRORS.

London, Dec. 12.

The Cork correspondent of the Times states that the fires in Cork were systematically carried out. The occupants were warned and the furniture soaked with petrol. Buildings occupied by Sinn Feiners were set on fire and others left untouched. The incendiaries took command of the city and then ensued an awful night of terror. Yelling gangs chased civilians through the streets, and the night resounded with revolver cracks and bomb explosions. It is feared that several people were burned alive in the destroyed buildings.

POLICE BARRACKS ATTACKED. Sinn Feiners attacked the Camlough .police barracks on Sunday flight, and fierce fighting ensued. It i 3 reported that a number were killed. • The wires were cut and details are unavailable. Sinn Feiners sniped military proceeding to the scene in a motor lorry from a railway viaduct.