MINIATURE ARSENAL

Auckland Star, Volume LII, Issue 60, 11 March 1921, Page 5

MINIATURE ARSENAL

. IN CORK ALDERMAN'S HOUSE. REVOLVERS, PISTOLS, AND BOMBS. (By Cable.—rress Association.—Copyright.. (Received 11..T0 a.m.! LONDON, March 10. The police raided the house of Coun--1 cillor O'Riordan, arrested recently in t Cork, and found 2\ revolvers, 11 auto- • matic pistols, 3GOO rounds of ammunif tion, and eleven bombs. l In the House of Commons, Mr. Lloyd . George said that the (lovermncnt was [ considering the request of Southern f Unionists in Dublin, asking for a post- - pniicnicnt of tlie day appointed for seti ling up the Southern Parliament. There would be no postponement of the Xorthcrn Parliament. Mr. Denis Henry, Attorney-. Jeneral of j Ireland, described as without foundation > the report that Crown officera assisted ■ in tlie destruction of a large part of Cork 1 by connecting the lire hose to a petrol r supply and spraying buildings with petrol. He also denied the statement . that evidence to this effect was given > in the Strickland inquiry. Iv view of the Liverpool outrages the 1 police are taking special precautions at Ihe (.rand National meeting on Wednesday. The King and Queon and Princess Mary arc attending. A party of armed men visited several houses at Tlmrlos nnd shot two men, killing one in hod alongside his brother. lA. and N.Z. Cable.) SINN FEIN StURDERS. I I j AIXEGED INFORMERS SHOT. i ' i i LONDON. March 10. 1 I Tun men were found shot in a country " J lane at Aughaboy, County Monnhan. 1 ! Cards on their breasts were inscribed, ' j "Tried, convicted, and executed by the 1 ; Irish Republican Army." One has been I j identified as Francis MoPhUlips. who j lived with his mother and six sisters. I MoPhillips was taken out of bed at (four o'clock in the morning, and shot •| by six men. I Another youth was found tied to a f I gate, labelled, '"Too young to be shot." II Two ex-army men, with excellent war ' l records, who had been missing; for two . I days from Thurlcs. wore found dead in a - field. On each body was a card bearing • I tlip Word "Spy.'' - | Mr. Alexander MacCabe. Sinn Fein - M.P. for Sli_ro, has been arrested. He was disgui cd as a cattle dealer. Thirteen cases of rick firing which have - occurred in the Liverpool district are - attributed to Sinn Feincrs. Five ar- - rest- have been made, as the result of 1 the operations of locally organised emergonov police. Two firemen were accidenti ! ally killed by the overturning of a motor I engine on its wav to one of ihe fires.— - | (A. and X.5.. Cable.)