MURDER CAMPAIGN.

Taranaki Daily News, 22 March 1922, Page 5

MURDER CAMPAIGN.

BELFAST HORRORS. MOST SERIOUS TENSION. MILLS SET ON FIRE. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. Received March 21, 5.5 p.m. London, March 20. The murder campaign in Belfast continues unchecked. A man named Mills, an employee of the corporation, was shot in the face in Templemore Street and died in a few hours. Sinn Feiners also made a murderous attack on three loyalist carters, who were made to run. One was seriously wounded. Armed meiij who broke into her house, murdered Mrs. Murphy, a Protestant, who married a Catholic. The tension is most serious near the Ulster border. There have been several affrays. Sinn Feiners seized thirty Ulster motor cars in the county of Donegal during the week-end and sent the drivers and owners home, telling them not to come back. Armed bands of the Republican army earned out a series of outrages in County Londonderry early on Monday morning. They set fire to and destroyed extensive flour mills at Ballyarton, also sawmills, threshing mills, barns and other buildings. The fire lit up the country for miles around. All the property, which was valued at forty thousand, belonged to members of the Ulster constabulary. Several bridges were also blown up. Sinn Feiners ambushed Robert Mullighan, an influential Orangeman, on the Monaghan frontier, and shot him dead. Constable Steenson, who was with Mullighan, was seriously wounded.

The extremists in the South have also been active. They kidnapped a number of prominent local supporters of the Treaty in Cork and removed them to an unknown destination. — Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. RAID BY REBELS. THE BARRACKS CAPTURED. London, March 21. Over 200 men of the Irish Republican Army surrounded Maghera, Derry, cut off the lights, ordered the inhabitants indoors and then captured the barracks. The raiders then retired to the Sperrin mountains, which are alive with LR-A. men. Ulster specials in force are trying to round them up. During the raid Constable Fitzpatrick was shot dead. Bridges were blown up and roads trenched to prevent pursuit. Twenty-five Republicans in Derry prison, who are undergoing long terms of penal servitude in connection with the recent border raids and kidnapping, have commenced a hunger strike as a protest against the denial of the treatment hitherto accorded to political prisoners.—Reuter.