IRISH CRIMES.

Taranaki Daily News, 26 April 1921, Page 5

IRISH CRIMES.

RAID OF CORK MAIL. LARGE QUANTITY CAPTURED. BATTLE IN THE MOUNTAINS. By Telegraph.—Press Aosn.—Copyright. Received April 25, 11.50 p.m. London, April 24’. Groups of four to five men held up on various rounds thirty-two postmen in Cork and stole forty-seven registered and seven thousand ordinary letters in the name of Sinn Fein. A battle marked by intense firing lasted for twelve hours in the mountains in Kilmilkin, County Galway, when a -patrol of fourteen constabulary were ambushed by a large body of rebels, led by a man disguised as an Irish priest, intimately reinforcements of soldiers drove off the rebels. One constable was killed and two wounded. —Reuter Service.

MIDNIGHT RAID FAILS. HUNT FOR SINN FEIN M.P. Received April 25, 5.5 p.m. London, April 24. Sinn Feiners at midnight futilely attacked the Kilrush police barracks and the coastguard station. The military counter-attacked. A sergeant was wounded. The rebel casualties are unknown. Police-Sergt. McFadden was killed and a private of the Royal Scots and two marines were captured. The latter were released, while a soldier who was wounded escaped. Auxiliary police were sent to Maam, Connemqra, to raid the house of Patrick O’MaiHie, a Sinn Fein member of the House of Commons, who has been on the run for two and a half years, and ambushers with a machine gun killed a constable and wounded two others, and then decamped. The auxiliaries burned the house. —Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.

SHOOTING IN BELFAST.

MURDER IN feUSY CENTRE. Received April 25, 5.5 p.m. London, April 24. One English cadet was murdered and one cadet and two civilians were wounded last night at Donegal Place, a busy thoroughfare in the centre of Belfast. The police pursued, but the murderers escaped in x the darkness. Later two brothers who are Sinn Feiners were shot dead.—Aua.-N.Z. Cable Aefln.

PEACE MISSION. LORD DERBY’S MOVEMENTS. Received April 25, 11.50 p.m. London, April 24. The Sunday Times understands that Mr. Lloyd George commissioned Lord Derby to approach the Sinn Fein leaders in an endeavor to find a common ground for negotiation on the Irish settlement. Lord Derby first interviewed Cardinal Logue, and then went to Ireland incognito, his movements being shrouded in the strictest secrecy. He had a long conversation with De Valera.—Reuter Service.

SOVIET AND SINN FEIN. EVIDENCE OF CONNECTION. Received April 25, 1.50 p.m. London, April 23. In the House of Commons, replying to a question, the Attorney-General for Ireland stated he would shortly publish evidence showing the connection between the Soviet Government and the ginn Fein movement.—Reuter Service.