POLICE PATROLS AMBUSHED.

Auckland Star, Volume LI, Issue 235, 1 October 1920, Page 5

POLICE PATROLS AMBUSHED.

THREE CONSTABLES KILLED. (Received 11.30 a.m.) LONDON, September .10. I Sinn Feiners fired on a police patrol at O'Brien's Bridge, Limerick, killing two constables. Another patrol was ambushed at Templemore, one constable being killed and one wounded, while one is missing. Armed and masked men raided,two steamers berthed at Northwall, Dublin, and took rifles, revolvers, and ammunition.—(A. and N.Z. Cable.) Tho "Times," in a leader, states that Sir Hamar Greenwood's assurances that reprisals will not be tolerated, are satisfactory, but it points out that he dissociates himself in no way from the recent unhappy observations of General Sir Nevil Mai-ready to an American correspondent. The "Times" adds that in the absence of authoritative information it is difficult to reject the suspicion that the Government has deliberately created a force in Ireland which it now seems unable to control. The "Daily Express" telegraphed to General Sir Nevil "Macready, asking him to confirm or deny his interview with an American journalist. He replied: "I am not prepared to make any further statement."' (United Service.)