IRELAND.

Taranaki Daily News, 20 June 1921, Page 5

IRELAND.

PEACE PROPOSAL. RUMORS OF A NEW PLAN. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. Received June 19, 5.5 p.m. London, June 18. It is rumored that the Government is anxious to utilise the presence of the Dominion Premiers to. settle the Irish question. One proposal is that General Smuts, Viscount Grey, Earl Derby and Mr. George Barnes, as Government delegates, should meet an equal number of members of the Northern and Southern Parliaments, With full power to conclude a settlement, requiring only the formal endorsement of the British Government MILITARY AMBUSHED. ROBBERIES IN DUBLIN. Received June 19, 5.5 p.m. London, June IS, Two hundred rebels ambushed twentyfive auxiliaries in four motor Iprries at Newmarket (Cork) and three roadmines were exploded, disabling three motor lorries. Two cadets wore killed and four wounded during the fight. Reinforcements found the dead tyidy of one attacker and it is believed others were killed. Armed men held up a postal paymaster riding in a car in Dublin and stole £lOOO. ' Others held up the Ranelagh brapch of the Ulster bank and stole £2OO. Two men stole £2OO from the College of Sciences, Dublin. Armed rebels attacked and burned three coastguard stations on the Dublin Coast. Armed men removed a widow and her two sons from bed in Dundalk and shot them dead outside their house.