SINN FEIN'S CAMPAIGN

Auckland Star, Volume LI, Issue 117, 17 May 1920, Page 5

SINN FEIN'S CAMPAIGN

BURNING POLICE BARRACKS.! . i ' TROOPS TO BE INCREASED. fßj- Cable —Press Association.—Copyright.) LONDON, May lfi. J A Dublin ( astle bulletin states that • JSO Irish jioliep barracks were destroyed I ! on the night of the* 12th and over twenty income tax ollices were attacked and : books and documents were seized. Sev- ■ I cral courthouses were also attacked. ' Kighteen additional police barracks ami ' flvc income tax offices were destroyed by ' ! (ire <iv the 14th. explosives being used. ' ! The Maynooth Town Hall was among ' the building* destroyed on the 14th.— j< ! (Imperial News, I\A.) ] ■ A party of armed men surrounded the I ' I Cathel courthouse, saturated the build- ' ing with petrol, and then set fire to it. < I completely destroying the premises. The ' police barracks at Carruckberg were ' i blown up. Dungarvan post office was ' ; raided and o(Ticial letters seized. < j Nine men shot and killed .lame- < j Dalton, a clerk, when he was leaving aii ' i hotel in Clare Street, Limerick, in the < 'daylight. Dalton was formerly a prominent Sinn Feiner. He was shot in the ' hand pome woeka ago, and afterward* received a warning message: "A gullet < is awaiting Dalton, the spy."—(A. and > N.Z. Cable.) 1 The "Evening Kews" nays that an ' official denial is given to the sensational < report from Dublin that General Sir i Nevil Maeroad.y's plans include the es- < tablishment of hundreds of blockhouses, t strongly garrisoned, implying that the t virtual reconquest of Ireland is intended, i The Government, however, has decided i to greatly increase the military aetivi- 1 ties in the outlying districts, where the < Sinn Feinern are usurping local author- i ity.—(United Service.)" i RIOTS IN BERRY. if POXICE BAYONET CHARGE. fßecelreti 1 .-".'> n in i LONDON, May lfi. ' Four hours' rioting occurred in Lon- w donderry on Saturday night between ' Sinn Feiners and Unionists. A hundred . shots were fired. * The nolice. fixing their bayonets, charged the rioters. Detective Moroney ' was fatally wounded, and a civilian was critically injured.—(A. and X.Z. Cable I, •