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Taranaki Daily News, 7 January 1921, Page 5

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A DESPERATE AMBUSH; j MACHINE-GUN SWEEP® ROAD. MORE HOMES BURNED By Telegraph.—Press Assn—Copyright. London, Jan. 5. An official message states that 16 attackers were killed in an ambush at Meelin and Kanturk in County Cork. The remainder of the attackers and also all guns and ammunition were captured. There were no military casualties. Received Jan. 6, 7.45 p.m. London, Jan. 6. An authoritative account, superseding the earlier official message describing the Meelin affray, states that the attackers opened fire with a machine-gun from a hillcrest dominating the road, at a distance of three hundred yards. The police and military took cover, and the fight continued for two hours, until reinforcements appeared, when the Sinn Feiners fled. Soldiers then occupied the hilltop, where they found blood marks, evidence that some Sinn Feiners had been wounded. The military arrested six men in Meelin, including a youth who ran away and was shot in the stomach. By General Strickland’s orders five houses in Meelin, from which shots were fired, were destroyed.—Aus. and N.Z. Cable Assn. Received Jan. 6, 5.5 p.m.

[London, Jan. 5. It is denied that sixteen were killed at Meelin.—Aus. and N.Z. Cable Assn. RAIDERS* RICH HAUL.. THEFT OF DUBLIN RATES Received Jan. 6, 7.45 p.m. London, Jan. 5. Bodies of Republican police raided the houses of Dublin rate-collectors and seized all cheques for rates payable to the Dublin County Council, which the local government board had demanded should be held on their account. The raiders then sent couriers to cash the cheques receiving several thousands sterling, and only released th© rate collectors when the cheques were cashed.—Aus., and N.Z. Cable Assn. AMBUSHING POLICE. 5. Six policemen were serious® injured in an ambush in a badly lighted, street in Cork city on Tuesday night. The attackers used rifles, revolvers, and machine guns Police fire wounded five civilians. STOWAWAYS ARRESTED. New York, Jan. 5. A message from Newport News states that Peter McSwiney, brother of the deceased McSwiney, and Daniel O’Callaghan, Mayor of Cork, arrived as stowaways in the steamer West Cannon. They were arrested, but later were released. Mr. O’Callaghan will testify before the Committee of One Hundred.