DETAILS OF THE OUTRAGE.

Taranaki Daily News, 27 May 1921, Page 5

DETAILS OF THE OUTRAGE.

PITCHEij BATTLE WITH TROOPS, ■ STREETS STREWN WITH DEAD. i Received May 26, 8.55 p.m. London, May 25. A Dublin’ correspondent says the burning of the Custom-house is the largest and most daring operation, of the Sinn Feiners that city has witnessed. Hundreds of rebels participated. They commandeered a lorry loaded with petrol and penetrated the main gate. Sinn Feiners then distributed the petrol throughout the building. The staff were rounded up and mustered in cellars, and wef® cut. The fire station had been previously held up at the revolver point. Troops and police rushed to the scene, and a pitched battle opened with the rebels in Custom-house Square, the Sinn Feiners firing from windows. The troops surrounded the blazing building and shot down the rebels emerging, while others wounded within the building were burned to death. The staff meanwhile made their way from the cellars. The rebels continued to fire till the auxiliary forces stormed the building, capturing many. The streets and square resembed a shambles, being strewn with dead and mangled bodies. \X.n official statement puts the known casualties at four auxiliaries wounded, seven civilians killed, eleven wounded, and one hundred and eleven rebels W’ere captured.—Times Service. CROWN CASUALTIES.

POLICE AND MILITARY LOSSES. Received May 26, 9.50 p.m. London, May 25. Replying to a question in the House of Commons, Sir Hamar Greenwood (Chief Secretary for Ireland) said the casualties among the Crown forces in Ireland from January 1 to the end of April were 109 police killed and 224 wounded, while forty-eight military were killed and 113 wounded. Mr. Austen Chamberlain, replying to a question, said the Government had made no offer to allow Archbishop Mannix to visit Ireland. —Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. SHOT AS A SPY. Received May 26, 8.10 p.m. London, May 25. Patrick Murphy was taken from his bed at Dundalk and shot, his body being labelled, “Convicted as a spy.”— Aus.-N.Z Cable Assn.