RAID IN IRELAND.

Auckland Star, Volume LI, Issue 309, 28 December 1920, Page 5

RAID IN IRELAND.

SDC KILLED, 138 CAPTURED. POLICE AT A DANCE HALL. SENTRIES OPEN FIRE. (By Cable.—Press Association.—Copy_g_t.) (Becelved 10_0 a.m.) LONDON, December 27. Tbe Crown forces surprised a dance meeting at Bruff, County Limerick, within the martial law area. The Sinn Fein sentries opened fire when the Crown forces approached the hall, killing a policeman. The police returned the fire and killed three sentries, while they also killed two others within the hall. All of these bore arms. The hall was then captured, and 138 arrests were made.— (A. and N.Z.) SPREADING FALSE NEWS. EDITOR SENT TO GAOL. FAFER HEA V_LY FINED. (Received 12.30 p.m.) DUBLTN, December 27. Mr. P. J. Hooper, editor of "Freeman's Journal."' charged with having disseminated false news rc<rardin<r the Crown Forces in Ireland, was to-day sentenced to one year's imprisonment, and the paper was fined £3000.—(A. and N.Z.) A RAID AT CORK. "EXAMINER" OFFICE WRECKED IjONDON, December 28. Thirty armed and masked raiders invaded the office of the Cork "Examiner" on Christmas F.ve. They broke the machinery with hammers, wrecked parts of the building with explosives, and set fire to the property. They escaped before the arrival of the police. The fire was extinguished, but other damage was extensive. The raiders, who were in civilian clothes, said "that they were acting under orders of the Irish Republic." It is believed that the attack was caused by the newspaper's attitude to the recent pastoral letter of tbe Bishop of Cork, condemning anibushos. The Irish Office announces that a group of Sinn Feiners in Dublin fired on a group of unarmed military, wounding one. Excepting a few incidents of rowdyism Christmas passed quietly throughout Ireland. — (A. and N.Z. Cable.)