IRELAND.
FOOD DESTROYED. SHOOTING OF A FARMER. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. Received April 7, 7.55 p.m. London, April 7. Armed Republican* forced soldiers to drive two military lorries transporting flour from barges to a selected spot, where -the flour was emptied into • canal and the lorries set on fire and destroyed. The inquest on the murder of Thomas Shannon, a farmer of Killrush (Clare), disclosed that his assassination was the outcome of Shannon’s secession from the Sinn Fein movement. Shan* non acted as magistrate of a Sinn Fein court, but he criticised the court’t methods and withdrew ‘his active participation in the movement.—Aus.-N.Z Cable Assn. ATTACKS ON POLICE. London, April 6. Simultaneous Sinn Fein attacks wen made on the police all over Mid-TyrottJ last night. Eight constables were sent to hospital seriously wounded.
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Taranaki Daily News, 8 April 1921, Page 5
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132IRELAND. Taranaki Daily News, 8 April 1921, Page 5
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