IRISH CRIMES.

Taranaki Daily News, 19 May 1921, Page 5

IRISH CRIMES.

IiEW CROP OF OUTRAGES.

SET-BACK TO PEACE.

PROPOSAL FOR IRISH KING. ■

** Tttecnth.—Pnu Asia*—CopyrlthL Received May 19, 1.30 ajn. London, May 18.

In addition to a round up of Sinn Ferners, detectives raided private dwellings in all parts of London and seized a considerable quantity of documents, including letters which had recently ar. rived from Ireland.

The Government interprets the latest development of terrorism as a determined effort to end the peace negotiations, but the strongest representations have been made to Mr. Lloyd George that the time is opportune for a decisive step towards direct dealings with the Sinn Fein leaders.

Lord Hugh Cecil, interviewed on the Irish question, stated the nearer we can approach independence the better. British opinion would go further towards expenditure if asked for an Irish King, named by the King, from one of the Princes of our Roval House.—Aus.KZ. Cable Assn.

TRACKING LONDON GUNMEN.

MORE CONFLICTS IN IRELAND.

London, May 17. The police have discovered that some of the Sinn Fein outrages in London on Sunday were perpetrated by gunmen who recently came to London from Ireland for the purpose of starting a campaign of terrorism in England. A special force of detectives is hard on their trail. A large force of armed detectives in motor cars is hunting down the gangs. Nine persons, including three women, have been detained. Eight farm fires in Fife are attributed to Sinn Feiners working among the miners. ambushed soldiers on a lorry at Gratton Crescent, Dublin. One soldier was killed. s-

A party of university students on an excursion steamer in Cork harbor were ordered to slow down by men ashore. The captain obeyed and the shoremen fired, wounding a man and three ladies, who were taken to the hospital. Sinn Feiners ordered Mrs. Blake out of a car that her husband might be shot, but Mrs. Blake replied, “You can shoot me, too, if you shoot my husband.* The rebels immediately shot her dead, and then the inspector.

BATTLE AT FOOTBALL MATCH.

DUEL OF MACHINE GUNS.

Received May 18, 8.40 p.m. London, May 17. During the progress of a military football match at Bandon, County Cork, civilians, armed with Lewis guns, opened a raking fire on players and spectators. The garrison stood to arms and in the fight that followed soldiers killed three attackers and a number of civilians were seriously wounded. The players retreated from the field under cover of a ma-ehine-gun barrage.—Times Service.

REPORT OF PEACE MOVE.

STEPS THROUGH AN AMERICAN.

New York, May 17. The London correspondent of the New York Herald says that Mr. Martin Glynn, former Governor of New York, met Mr. Lloyd Geqrge, who authorised him to transmit the following message to the Irish leader: —“I will meet De Valera or any Irish leaders without condition on my part and without exacting any promise from them. It is the only way a conclusion can be reached.” Mr. Glynn entrusted the Herald correspondent to deliver the message to De Valera. The latter replied: “There can be no until Britain recognises Ireland’s right to choose freely and independently her own form of Government and political institutions at home, also her relationship with foreign nations. I have never denied that we •have common interests, but we must be independent judges of what our own interests are.”

Received May 18, 11.15 pan. London, May 17. -With reference to the report in Freeman’s Journal it is officially announced that the Premier did not make a statement on the subject to De Valera, beyond what he already had stated in the Bouse of Commons. —Reuter Service.