IRELAND'S POWDERY XMAS.

Auckland Star, Volume LI, Issue 308, 27 December 1920, Page 5

IRELAND'S POWDERY XMAS.

\ AMBUSH IN TIPPERARY. 1 SINN FEIN AND GERMAN PLOT. r 1 LONDON, December 24. I A police patrol met a determined ambush at Templemore, County Tipperary. The attackers waited their opportunity I for some days. They dug trenches across f the roads, holding up all traffic. The patrol returned the lire, and two of the ' J attackers fell. The patrol then searched for suspects, and were again fired upon. r ' Military reinforcements arrived and 1 chased '200 attackers over the mountains. Troops captured a Sinn Fein arsenal 2 in the Fermoy district of County Cork. • Thirty rifles, bombs, ammunition, and military equipment were seized. The Carmelite Monastery, in Aungier street, Dublin, was raided by troops, who dis- ; covered a revolver and ammunition in 3 the public room. Tlie Father Superior • of the monastery suggests that a visitor 1 left the revolver there. Considerable 1 firing took place in Dublin streets " under the cover of a fog. 1 -A proclamation issued in the area of I Ireland under martial law compels all householders from January 1 to affix on ' the inner side of the street doors a list c of inmates, their ages, and other dcf tails. l Mr. Lloyd George stated in the , House of Commons that documents - found on Sinn Fein leaders proving t their complicity in a German plot in > 1918 will be published in a few days. 3 —(A. and N.Z. Cable). -Alluding to Ireland, the King . in his speech deplored the cam- { paign of violence and outrage -! of a small Irish section, seeking to t sever Ireland from the Empire, 3 and hoped for a return to constitutional methods which would make reconcilia- , tion and peace possible. The new Irish 1 Government Bill had received the Royal , assent, nnd the King trusted that it . would bring unity and friendship.— (A. I and N.Z. Cable.)