IRISH WARFARE.

Taranaki Daily News, 26 April 1922, Page 5

IRISH WARFARE.

A PE-ACE PACT, AGREEMENT REPORTED, TO STOP FIGHTING, By Telegraph.—Press Assn. —Copyright. Received April 24, 10.30 p.m. London, April 24. The Westminster Gazette’s Dublin correspondent understands authoritatively that an agreement has been reached between the military leaders of the Republican and Free State sections of the Irish Army for a cessation of hostilities. The agreement is purely military, and does not affect the political issue. The people will be left freely to pronounce upon the treaty.—Reuter Service. LABOR’S APPEAL. AGAINST SAVAGE CONFLICT. BOMB THROWN IN CHURCH. Received April 24, 5.5 p.m. London, April 23. If the Labor appeal for a day-long strike materialises, Ireland, outside Ulster, will be motionless to-morrow, except for meetings denouncing gunmen. Whatever mistakes Labor may or may not have made in the past, they undoubtedly are strenuously struggling to impress Southern opinion with the heinousness of the present savage conflict. It is believed the appeal, is approved by the great mass of the community outside the gunmen, who continue their ferocious intimidation of loyalists throughout the country. A most wicked outrage was perpetrated on the Newtonwards road, Belfast, to-night. A bomb was flung into the porch of St. Matthew’s Catholic church, killing a woman and wounding a policeman. BLIND MAN MURDERED. Received April 24, 5.5 p.m. London, April 24. In revenge for the church bomb outrage, armed men entered the house of Joseph Miller, a blind man, and shot him dead in bed and wounded a lodger. A QUIET BELFAST SUNDAY. London, April 23. Two boys and a man were wounded in York Street, Belfast, by bullets on Sunday afternoon. Three men were stabbed at Bridge End and two bombs were thrown. No damage resulted except broken windows.