IRISH ELECTIONS.

Auckland Star, Volume LIII, Issue 143, 19 June 1922, Page 5

IRISH ELECTIONS.

PRO-TREATY MAJORITY IN THE FIRST COUNTS. — TWENTY-FIVE TO TWENTY. CONSTITUTION'S DATE. OPERATES BY DECEMBER 6. (By Cable.—Press Association.—Copyright.) (Received 11.30 a.m.) LONDON, June 18. The "Daily Chronicle's" Dublin correspondent states that members of the Irish Parliament already elected coneist of 23 pro-Treaty, 20 anti-Treaty, 1 Independent, n nd 1 Labour. Both of the latter favour the Treaty. The ballot j boxes at Dublin were placed under j armed guards. At Cork, the election figures were: Day (Labourite) 6830, Deroiste (ProTreaty) 6147, Walsh (Tro-Treaty), 6097, Miss McSwine.y (Republican) 6066. The unsuccessful candidates were: Beamish (Commercial) 4769, Daly (Independent) 3013. Lord Mayor O'Callagban (Republican) ISO 7. The concluding articles of the Irish Constitution stipulate that the present Courts of Justice shall continue their functions*, and also provide that the adoption of the Constitution by the Constituent Assembly and the British Parliament shall be announced not later than December 6, 1922. when tho Constitution comes into operatioa.— (A. and N.Z. Cable.) RAIDERS IN ARMAGH. FIVE SHOT DEAD. FIGHT FOLLOWS POLICE OUTRAGE. LONDON, Juno 18. Armed Sinn Feiners ran amok at Bessbrook, South Armagh, during the night, and shot dead four men and one woman and wounded two men, all of whom were Protestants. The raiders roved the countryside and dragged the victims from their beds and shot them as they stood in their night clothing. They then bombed and set fire to their houses. Other families fled panic-stricken through the fields, the raiders pursuing and shooting at them. Their wickedest attack was against a cottage occupied by an elderly man and his wife, who were shot side by side. Several children were injured through fires. The countryside is horrified, and wholesale reprisals are feared. A patrol of Ulster constabulary was ambushed at Forkhill, South Armagh. One constable was killed and one injured. Ulster constabulary had a three hours' fight against Republican irregulars at Dromintree, on the Louth border. Casualties were numerous. The fight *ollowed an outrage by Ulster special police, who, it is alleged, entered a house and stripped and abused some Roman Catholic girls, who were tho sole occupants. Tho British destroyer Vancouver arrived at Londonderry to-day.—(A. and N.Z. Cable.) HORSES ROASTED ALIVE. (Received 1 p.m.) LONDON, June 18. Members of the Sinn Fein set fire to the stables of a prominent coal merchant, an Orangeman of Belfast. Twelve horses were roasted alive, and 40 vans were destroyed, the entire place being gutted. Nine other fires were started durintr the week-end, several factories and shops being destroyed.— (A. and N.Z.)