IRELAND.
POLICE KILLED. SEVERAL FATAL AMBUSHES. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. Received July 3, 11.30 p.m. London, July 2. Sergeant Johnson and Constable Hijl were killed and five other constables wounded in an ambush at Oola, County Limerick. Constable Shelster was shot dead at Bansha, Tipperary. Seven police were ambushed at Ballygar. Galway, and three were wounded. Armed men took Francis Sullivan from his home at Rosscarberry, Cork, and his dead body was subsequently found nearby.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. Received July 3, 11.5 p.m. London, July 2. Thirty men ambushed seven constables near Sligo and wounded one and captured two, whom they afterwards murdered in cold blood.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. CRIMES IN ENGLAND. SINN FEINER • SENTENCED. Received July 3, 11.30 p.m. London, July 2At the Kent Assizes, William Robinson was sentenced to twelve years, and three other Sinn Feiners to ten years, on charges of shooting at police with intent to murder while escaping in a taxicab near Bromley, after cutting telegraph wires. At the Newcastle Assizes Sinn Feiners named James Conroy and Owen Salmon were sentenced to seven years and John McAlinson to five years for arson, i —Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. REBELS AND AMERICA. TO HONOR THE U.S.A. FLAG: Received July 3, 11.5 p.m. London, July 2. De Valera, in a proclamation on behalf of the Dail Eireaiji, says the flag of the United States will be officially honored throughout Ireland on Monday in appreciation of the sympathy and aid given the Irish people by their friends in the United States and as a recognised symbol of the principle that Governments derive just powers from consent to be governed.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. CAPTURE OF REBELS. Received July 2, 5.5 p.m. London, July I. An auxiliary patrol surprised a party of Sinn Feiners lying behind a railway embankment near Castlebayney. The auxiliaries fired, killing two. They captured the remainder, several of whom were wounded, together with twelve guns and a quantity of ammunition. — Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.
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Taranaki Daily News, 4 July 1921, Page 5
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