IRISH DISORDERS.

Taranaki Daily News, 20 March 1922, Page 5

IRISH DISORDERS.

ULSTER FRONTIER. A DANGEROUS SITUATION. TWO ARMED CAMPS. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. Received March 19, 1-1.30 p.m. London, March 18. A dangerous situation is arising on the Ulster frontier. Three bridges on the Fermanagh side of the border were blown up, and the road -from Clones to Cavan was cut. Irish Republican troops are gathering in strong force on the borders of Monaghan and Tyrone, many houses and halls being commandeered. The Free State Government commandeered Castle Blayney, which has been a Republican barracks. The Republicans retaliated and commandeered an hotel, where they are quartered. The town is now divided into two armed camps. Another bomb was thrown in Belfast at a tramcar, one man being killed and three injured. —Aus.-NJZ. Cable Assn. CONFLICT WITH PATROL. MURDERS IN BELFAST. TALK OF CIVIL WAR. Received March 19, 5.5 p.m. London, March 18. A large crowd came in conflict with a Republican patrol of five men in Cork and badly mauled them, and the patrol •was obliged to use its arms. A man named Morgan was killed and another wounded, while one policeman was wounded. The crowd eventually dispersed. The Republican arnTy celebrated St. Patrick’s Day by holding military revolutions, including trooping the tricolor Sinn Fein flag in Dublin. Religious services with the sermons in Erse were held in the churches of all denominations throughout the country. De Valera, who was accompanied by an armed guard in motor cars, speaking at Carrick to seven hundred members of the Republican army and two thousand others, said: “If the treaty is not rejected it will mean civil war, and the Irish soldiery may fight for independence over the dead bodies of the soldiers of the Government set up by the treaty’s supporters.” Two men were shot dead in Belfast while proceeding to work. A woman was killed by a bomb explosion. —Aus.N.Z. Cable Assn. The Irish Bulletin warns Britain in the following terms: “If it is a fact that six battalions of British troops will be used in Ulster under Field-Mar-shal Sir Henry Wilson in his capacity as civil head’ of the Northern police, Southern Ireland will be quickly lost to the Empire, for the simple reason that it will regard the treaty as fundamentally broken.”