ULSTER AND SINN FEIN
VOLUNTEERS CHASE RAIDERS. a snnr fedt court. Cable.—iPresa Association.—Copyright.) (Received 12.30 p.m.) LONDON, May 25. Ulster pickets watching Sinn Fein activities at Liesbellaw, surprised raidera attacking a soldier's house at midnight, and sounded sirens and church bells. Three hundred armed volunteers responded and drove of! the raiders after a lively fusillade. A Sinn Fein court ordered an ex-editor to cell a farmer's cattle to repay a debt, and sentenced the farmer to a term of hard labour on his own land.—(Times.) , FARMERS' FIGHTING FORCE. BULWARK AGAINST BOSCHES. COUNTRY UNITS ORGANISED. (Received 11.30 a.m.) LOXDON, May 25. Irish fanners are contemplating; the formation of a Farmers' Freedom Force, jae a permanent bulwark against I Socialism and Bolshevism. It is proposed to organise country units. Hundreds of physically fit men are prepared to meet force by force where Government action is undesirable or unexereised. The farmers are also forming' technical units familiar with dairying machinery, railways, and shipping.—-(A. and N.Z.)
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Auckland Star, Volume LI, Issue 125, 26 May 1920, Page 5
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