IRELAND.

Taranaki Daily News, 13 April 1921, Page 5

IRELAND.

ATTACK ON A HOTEL AUXILIARIES FIGHT IN PYJAMAS. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. London, April 11. A large force of civilians made a sensational attack on the London and North-Western. Railway Hotel, Dublin, where a number of auxiliary police were staying. After surrounding the building they hurled Mills’ bombs, poison gas bombs and bottles of petrol into the hotel and its precincts. They then used revolvers freely. The police returned the fire, and after a vigorous fusilade the attackers retired, leaving one dead and two wounded. A number were arrested. Received April 12,35 a.m. London, April 11. During an attack on the Northwestern Hotel some auxiliaries -fought in pyjamas and others in shirts and trousers only and bare feet, but they pluckily pressed the Republicans, who covered the retreat of the main body by raising the drawbridges over the canal. A small party of rebels were surprised while blowing up bridges and trench, ing roads at Liscasane, Tralee. One rebel was killed and another wounded. Scores of youths from neighboring villages invaded Rosscarberg, Cork, from which police protection has been withdrawn owing to recent attacks on barracks, and looted shops.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. ANOTHER PEACE MOVE. Received April 13, 12.35 a.m. London, April 11. The Irish Dominion League has authorised its executive to prepare a memorial to the Government, suggesting a basis of peace and procedure likely to bring about the accommodation of the Southern and Northern interests and aspirations by means of friendly discussions and negotiations.—Aus. and N.Z. Cable Assn. CONSTABLES MURDERED. London, April 11. Constable Fluke has been killed by a bomb, and three others wounded, while returning from a Protestant church in Creggan, Armagh. Noticing people crowding into a hotel, they approached. A bomb was thrown and fire opened from the opposite side of the road. Constables Doolworth and Boynes were shot in the street at Kildorrery, and died in a few hours. Constables Woodward and Bayne were shot dead at Kildorrery, Cork. O’CALLAGHAN TO LEAVE AMERICA. New York, April 11. The Labor Department has announced that O’Callaghan, Lord Mayor of Cork, must leave the country, the State Department having denied his plea for political asylum. O’Callaghan’s status is that of an alien seaman. The law prescribes no time for his reshipment, but practice allows 60 days from the date of the State Department’s ruling.