SINN FEIN OUTRAGES.

Auckland Star, Volume LII, Issue 24, 28 January 1921, Page 5

SINN FEIN OUTRAGES.

SHOOTINGS AND AMBUSH. *-*r_3tCE FIGHT ON THE ROAD. D*_ VAIXRA lUTERVTEWED, (By Cable. — Tre-s Association.—Copj-rigb t., (Kr-eived l<\-*0 a.m.) LONDON, January 27. Five men wore standing in a hotel tar in Belfast suddenly ru-hed upstairs j_st at ciosi__- time, .si".,it dead two constables who were in bed. and seriously -vou-ded a t!;:r,l constable. Two barmen jn the hotel rave been arrested. "rVTule a party of police and military -vere motor'.n-- at high speed round a bend between Gleneoole and Killcnaule, County Tipperary. they found a trench -jad been dug across the road. One motor car avoided the trench, but the other crashed -into it. A terrible fusillade was opened, und then there were shouts demanding surrender. The officer replied by telling his own men To come on. and they lined tiie ditches. W'nen he opened fire with a Lewis -un the a*.iac*cers withdrew. Only three of the I'rown forces got off scathless. One was killed and one is in a critical condition.

Mr. John Bradfieid, a Pmtestant tanner, was found dead at Eandon. He had been cxc uted as an alleged antiRepublican spy. It appears that men In military uniform questioned Bradlield, who believed that the-.- were British officers, though they were really disguised Sinn Feincrs. Loyalists declare that such tactics place them in a terrible dilemma.

IF I WERE KING.

• Received 11 a.m.i PARIS, .lanuary 27. The Paris newspaper "Oeuvre" statethat what Scotland Yard and the police of the L'r.ited Kingdom could not do the editor achieved. He had a persona] interview with de Valera. De Valera said that if Great Britain rpcoimised .the ri-srht of the Irish people to dispose of tbeir own fate the difficulties with the Crown and Ulster would disappear. If the Llsterites demanded autonomy in an Irish State the Sinn Feinners would be willing to grant ii. De Valera said that what Mr. Lloyd George told the Press regarding the offers of jihe Sinn Fein mattered little. What Mr. Lloyd George said to-day would without concern be contradicated to-morrow if it suited his policy. The Dail Eireann was ready to examine any peace proposals which would not oppose its man-date.—-(A. and X.Z. Cable.)

POET UNDER ASMS.

(Received 0..'. A.m.i LOXDOX, January 27. Lord Dunsany. an Irish peer and a poet, was arrested at Trim. County Meath. for being in possession of firearms. He was released on bail, but was subsequently re-arrested and removed to an unknown destination.

Lord Dunsany is one of the most brilliant younger members of tbe Irish literary movement. He i- the author of some remarkable short plays. of striking originality, and essays and short stories. Lord Dunsany served with the British Army in_ the war, and was a3 loyal in his writings on tiie struggle as in Lis personal service.