IRELAND.

Taranaki Daily News, 24 May 1921, Page 5

IRELAND.

MORE MURDERS. REPUBLICANS SHORT OF FUNDS. "MONEY OR YOUR LIFE” By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright, Received May 23, 7.55 p.m. London, May 23. Sergeant McDonagh was shot dead at County Tyrone, and Sergeant Anderson was shot dead at Balbriggan. A party of Crown forces was ambushed in Longford, and Constable Kenyon was killed. The Morning Post’s Irish correspondent says there are indications that the foreign paymasters of the murder gangs are unable to keep up payments, and the Republican Army is becoming hard up, making compulsory levies not only on Protestant loyalists but on Catholic farmers and tradesmen. These blackmailing demands are usually accompanied by threats of the death penalty if payment is. evaded.—Aus.-N.Z, Cable Assn.

LONDONERS TERRORISED. WITNESSES PROTECTED. London, May 21. Elaborate precautions were taken in connection with the inquest on M‘Neil, the victim of the Sinn Fein raid at Hammersmith. The public seemed to be terrorised and afraid of assassins entering their houses and shooting them, hence it was most difficult to secure evidence. The press was asked not to publish the names of witnesses, otherwise the inquest would be held in cam-era.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. INCENDIARISM IN ENGLAND. London, May 22. There have been a number of incendiary outrages, assumed to be due to Sinn Fein, on Tyneside There were a series of fires in the Jarrow district, where a gas main was blown up, affectin the town’s lighting. Boat-building works at Wallsend were set on fire, but .the damage was not serious. Two arrests were made. Big fires on farms and timber yards at Stockton and Middlesborough caused serious damage.