WEEK-END CLASHES.

Auckland Star, Volume LII, Issue 21, 25 January 1921, Page 5

WEEK-END CLASHES.

JIOB ASSAILS POLICE PATROLS WILE RUNNING FTGHT. TWO ATTACKERS KHXED. <By Cable.—Press Association.—CoDjidchi.) fßeceived 11 a.m.) LONDON, January 24. DisturlKinees are reported from both ends of the country in .Ireland. Simultaneous attacks on the police and the military barracks in Bandon, on the railway line between Cork and Ban try, were beateu off after 4j minutes' lighting. Neither the police nor the military suffered any casualties. One of tiie attackers was found dead after the fight. There was a running fight for a mile near Kells, County Meath, about 40 miles north-west o*f Dublin, between a large body of armed civilians and a police motor patrol. The police took refuge in a wayside house, and kept the attacking crowd at bay for an hour until the niili" tary arrived with reinforcements. One attacker was killed. The police lost a quantity of arms and their motor. A platoon of special constabulary at Newton-Butler, Fermanagh County, went into Clones on Sunday and broke" into a public house. The occupants of the house escaped and took refuge in the police barracks. The police turned out, and the platoon fired on them. The police replied and killed one of the specials. The authorities have ordered the disbanding of the platoon and of another at Newry, County Down, which had also got out of hand. i The week-end outrages included the murder of three constables. Three Sinn Feiners were shot dead at Headford, County Gal way, when attempting to evade arrest. The body of an ex-soldier was found on the roadside at Bandon with a label bearing the words " Convicted spy" attached to his coat. The son of a farmer named Elliott, who was kidnapped by nxmed and masked men at Balinalee, County Longford, was found in a bog , shot through the head.— (A. and N.Z. Cable.)

UXSTER PARLIAMENT.

SIR EDWARD CARSON RETIRES (Received 8.30 a.m.) LONDON, January 24. The "Daily Mail" states that the King is not likely to open the Ulster Parliament. The ceremony will be one of great pomp and splendour. Sir Edward Carson is finally leaving Irish politics, and will announce his decision to a. deputation whic his to wait on him to-morrow to ask him to accept the Premiership of the North of Ireland.—(A. and N.Z. Cable.)

DR. CLUNE'S MISSION.

ROME, January 24. The Pope gave a private audience to Dr. Clone, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Perth, ana heard his report on the etuation in Ireland-—(A. and N.Z.)