IRISH ANARCHY.

Taranaki Daily News, 2 April 1921, Page 5

IRISH ANARCHY.

BARRACKS BLOWN UP. TEN POLICE KILLED. TRAGIC STORY OF DEFENCE. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. London, March 31. A large force of armed men blew up the Rosearbery police barracks. The attack opened at 2 a.m., when bombs and explosives demolished the front wall, and lasted several aourn. There was heavy and continuous rifle fire. The garrison, numbering 22, held the barracks until the last room took fire, and then six escaped from an upper window. Five police were killed, twelve wounded, and two are missing. The explosions were heard at a distance of 30 miles. Reinforcemeftts were dispatched tc the scene, but as motor traffic was impossible, owing to the destruction of bridges, they were obliged to walk, and when they arrived the attackers had disappeared, taking the equipment from the destroyed barracks. It is stated the rebels lost heavily. Received April 1, 8.30 p.m. London, April 1. The latest report is that ten police are dead at Rosearbery. A tragic story is told of the defenders’ fight amid flames until they were driven from their last refuge—a small upper room, whence they leaped to the ground, amid barbed wire defences. They thus became a target for the attackers’ concentrated fire, and only three escaped. They reached Clonakilty. It is believed most of the casualties were due to an explosion amongst stored bombs and ammunition.—Aus. and N.Z. Cable Assn.

TALK OF NEGOTIATIONS.

ANOTHER FARMER MURDERED. London, March 31. Cardinal Logue received a deputation of southern Unionists, which, it is understood, had reference to the opening of negotiations between the Dail Eirean and the Government. The police captured a Lewis gun, a German aeroplane gun, and 5000 rounds of ammunition in a stable in Harcourt Street, Dublin. William Lattimer, a farmer living near Mohill, did not respond to the demand to go outside, whereupon a bomb was thrown through a window. Lattimer went outside and was shot dead.