IRELAND.

Taranaki Daily News, 18 April 1921, Page 5

IRELAND.

MORE* BRUTAL MURDERS. GIRL SEES FIANCEE KILLED. By Telegraph.— Assn.—-copyright. Received April 17, 5.5 p.m. London, April 16. While a constable was bidding farewell to his fiancee in a street in Ballinmore an unknown assailant shot the constable dead and dangerously wounded his fiancee. While Major Mackinnon, of the Royal Irish Constabulary, was golfing near Tralee with a cadet of the same force, ten civilians fired from a hedge. The major died of wounds, but the cadet returned the attackers’ fire and escaped unhurt. A dozen farm houses were burned in the Ballynacolligot district as a reprisal. People are fleeing from the district. General Sir Nevil Macßeady has suspended the Civil Courts’ jurisdiction throughout the martial law areas regarding the claims for damages for injuries allegedly caused by the Crown forces.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. MANNIX IN PARIS. POPE’S ATTITUDE TO SINN FEIN. Received April 17, 5.5 p.m. Paris, April 15. Irish residents entertained Archbishop Mannix at a dinner. Interviewed, Archbishop Mannix said the Pope asked him to be his intermediary in condemning the acts of his compatriots in Ireland. “I refused,” he added, “and showed the Holy Father that there was something fine and heroic in Sinn Fein’s war against Britain. The Pope finally agreed that the British policy in Ireland was shocking.” Archbishop ( Mannix declared that persistent rumors that the Vatican intended to issue a condemnation of Irishmen’s efforts to obtain the freedom of their country was merely English propaganda. —Aus. and N.Z. Cable Assn. AMERICAN INTERFERENCE. Received April 17, 5.5 p.m. Washington, April . Senator Morris has introduced a resolution that the United States vifwe with ndrror and indignation the British Government’s policy in Ireland. The motion has been referred to the Foreign Relations Committee.—Aus. and N.Z. Cable Assn. A COLD-BLOODED MURDER. BY THIRTY ARMED MEN. London, April 15A Sir Arthur Vicars, who had to resign the position of King of Arms, after the theft of the Crown jewels from Dublin Castle in July, 1907, was taken from his bed in his dressing gown and murdered outside the house. Thirty armed men carried out the crime. Received April 17, 5.5 p.m. London, April 15. The police found Sir Arthur Vicars’ body lying across a footpath thiry yards from his house, with his head practically blown away. The murderers, who numbered thirty, were strangers to the district. They were armed with revolvers, shot guns and bombs. After the crime the inmates of Kilmorna House were given ten minutes to leave, and the House was set on fire, bombs being placed inside to prevent an attempt to save it.—Aus. and N.Z. Cable Assn.