OUTRAGE IN IRELAND.

Auckland Star, Volume LIII, Issue 97, 26 April 1922, Page 5

OUTRAGE IN IRELAND.

FREE STATE GENERAL SHOT.

MURDER AFTER SURRENDER. REBEL OFFICERS ARRESTED. (By Cable.—Press Association.—Copyright.) ißeceived 10.30 a.m.) LONDON, April 25. Brigadier-General Adamson. commanding the Athlone (Wcstmeatli) Brigade of the Free State Army, was 1 shot dead in the streets of Athlone last night when returning to the barracks near a hotel occupied by the headquarters of mutineer troops. Adamson was suddenly confronted by a group of armed men who ordered him to put up his hands. He complied, and while hi* hands were raised his assailants fired several bullets into his body. Several officers of the mutineer troops j have been arrested in connection with the outrage Tho notorious Ballagh Bridge sector was the scene of renewed activity yester day. For five hours periodical bursts of sniping by Free iStatcrs compelled the northern area farmers to again evacuate their farmsteads on the whole border. The highway and steam tramway line from Caledon to Crilly Bridge were continuously enfiladed, and traffic was held up. Preparation are in progress to drive the Free Staters over the Boyne.—(A. and N.Z. Cable.)

A REPORTED TRUCE.

REPUBLIC AND FREE STATE. NO COERCION AT BALLOT. LONDON, April 25. The ••Westminster Gazette's" Dublin correspondent reports that he understands authoritatively that an agreement has been readied between the military leaders of the Republican and Free State sections of the Irish army for cessation of hostilities. The agreement is purely a military one. and does not affect the political issue. The people will be left to freely pronounce upon the treaty.— (Reuter.) The police say the bomb thrown at St. Matthew's Roman Catholic Church was intended for three police who were entering the chapel. In revenge for the outrage at the church, armed men entered the house of Joseph Miller, a blind man, and shot him dead in bed. They also -wounded a lodger.

A" concealed sniper shot a ma.n named Corr. aged 76. dead in Middlepark Street. Sibbinson, a timekeeper, was working in his office, when two intruders emptied their revolvers in his body. He escaped. Unknown men plastered Dublin with a manifesto purporting to be signed by the Irish Labour leaders, declaring the establishment of a workers' republic, and urging the workers to seize power and form workers' councils. It adds: "While the capitalist thieves are quarrelling over the spoils wrenched from the grasp of Britain, hold aloft the torch of Communism.'' The leaders have repudiated the document. The day's strike ordered by the Irish Labour party as a protest against militarism was observed in the South -without disturbance, though business -was as usual in Ulster, except that the trams did not pass the border.—(A. and N.Z.)