BATTLE IN CORK.

Auckland Star, Volume LII, Issue 56, 7 March 1921, Page 5

BATTLE IN CORK.

MILITARY PARTY AMBUSHED. TWO OFFICERS KILLED.

SKIRMISH NEAR DtJBLIN. , (By Cable— l'ress Association.-Coprrignt.) (Received 10.30 a.m.) LONDON, March 6. it is officially stated that Colonel (. uintaiug. escorted by three lorrie 3 with parlies of East Lancashire* and uu armoured car, wore going to Buuevant, m -NortlitTii Cork, * lien a heavy . lire wad opened from . {,'urae-cowred ground on both sides oi Ur- road, a driver being severely I wounded, and tlie leading lorry thrown into a ditch. The troops left the cars and went into i action. A ear trying to pass was also i ditched, and l'oloiie.l Yummiiiy was shot ■in the head, dying instuutly. A tight ; la-ting an hour followed, until a party from a neighbouring barracks took the i rebels on the llauU. and they lied. Few . of the ambushing party were seen. Out . they were armed with rides and greatly outnumbered the troops. Mines were laid ott the road, but they did not explode. The total casualties were two officers killed and two other ranks wounded. Further details state that the part./ consisted of si.v motor lorries preceded by an armoured car. On reaching I Clonbanini the road was found lo be trenched, and obstacles were erected , compelling the troops to dismount. They , were immediately subjected to a devas- , tatinp fire from all directions. An I j armoured car eventually reached Kan- . forceinents. The ambushing party num- , bering 500. under cover of darkness, withdrew to the hills. Their casualties , art , unknown. I The military dea.i and wounded are . in Butteva-nt Hospital. Colonel dimming was president of the court of inquiry at Mallow, investigating the shooting of railwaymen. Another ambush occurred near Dublin . on Sunday morning, when Sinn Feiners . organised a desperate attack on three motor cars containing Irish ConstabuI lary on the lonely Malahide-Dublin road. . The attackers flung six bombs, of which ono entered the second ear and killed the driver and another occupant. The other I cars escaped. , A little later a military lorry was . passing Frederick Street, Dublin, when 1 a big explosion occurred, apparently due to a bomb under a tramcar. The solI diers in the lorry suspecting an attack . opened fire and several were wounded, \ but none seriously, the worst being a t conductor shot in the leg. Sinn Fein incendiarism is reported . from Newcastle, where miscreants bored t holes in barrels of oil in the store, lifhtj ing the 051. Fortunately the blaz» wus quickly discovered and extinguish*,,. ,' A constable discovered three men at tempting a similar outrage \n a boaded spirit, store nearby, and challenged the men. who knocked him down. The constable pluckily held on to one. and arrested him. He proved tn be an Irishman. | and had explosives in his possession.— (A. and N.Z. Cable.) RAIDS AND ROBBERY. i BRIDGES BLOWN UP.

1 f LONDON, March 6. l An official communique issued from . Dublin Castle reports that a party of t 35 military was attacked between Kil- . larney and Buttevant. Four soldiers [ were killed, including two officers. Fight- . ing continues. Unofficially, it is reported that an unarmed general is among the '. killed. A lieutenant and a private were r wounded during an attack on military motor lorries at Gowel, County Leitrim. j Eight police were wounded at Cappo- . quin. County AVaterford, and Constable 1 Duddy was killed. i Motor lorries containing police and ■ prisoners arrested in the country were ; attacked with bombs and rifles, between Phoenix Park and Dublin Castle. It is i believed that the police killed three of . the attackers. The lorries w-ere again ,- bombed in the Dublin streets before - reaching the Castle. Two police were l slightly wounded. Three armed men held up the chief . clerk of Mountjoy gaol, when he was returning from a bank, and robbed him of a bag containing £1000, intended to pay the wages of the gaol staff. The Belfast police raided a poteen still, capturing 300 gallons of spirits, the largest capture hitherto. Sinn Feiners on Friday blew up bridges on the Nenagh-Limerick roads. The military on Saturday blew up important bridges" leading , to TraJee, thereby isolating the district and preventing the people from obtaining week-end supplies. The Crown forces declare 'their intention > to repeat similar reprisals until the Rel publicans discontinue the destruction of , j bridges. r! Owing to the nine o'clock curfew in i Dublin the opera now begins at f1.30 p.m., , and ends at eight o'clock. Music halls ; are abandoning the second performances r: where formerly there were twp houses . I nightly. ; i The Manchester police have devised an i ' elaborate scheme for thwarting Sinn i I Fein incendiaries. The town and agTiI cultural districts are patrolled by police I! in motor cars and cm motor cycles, who r \ are armed, and arc instructed to challenge pedestrians and motorists, and to detain any suspicious people. Hundreds of special constables have also been enrolled, and bloodhounds are kept in some mills—(A. and N.Z. Cable.)