IRISH PROBLEM.

Press, Volume LVI, Issue 16798, 1 April 1920, Page 7

IRISH PROBLEM.

MURDERS and outrages. /vblo—Press Association— Copyright.) (United Scrvic-e.) LONDON, March 29. Devils repardinjr the Irish outrages pliow that tho murderers usually woik S nf ten. Crack shots are chosen t° pick off the victims, while the others irt as outposts. . The Government has secured evidence •Ont almost incredible sums are paUl to some murder pan*?. Anyone v.sitin£, Dublin Castle, the approaches to "£ r h n re continuously watched, becomes a marked man. Hiph Government officials no lonper dare leave the Castle to visit their own family. The "Sunday Express" states that <i Nationalist member of tl:e House or Commons received a written warning, marked with a black cross, intimatin.-, that hi« life was wanted in tue cause res are almost Mirnas-inpc tho>o of the Bnhheviks. nwnkinVr.a new temner in and threatening to rend Irelan 1 asunder, and f-revcr. Tt is to talk of Dominion home rule. Ihe must go straight ahead on its own lines.

(Australian ar.d N.Z. C,W ; A.soriatioiO LONDON, March 30. Placard.-, throughout Southern Ireland signed by the "General Officer Commanding the Irish Republican \rmv " proclaim the suppression of the Koval' Irish Constabulary. It describes them as traitors, bloodhounds, and spies, conspiring with the ciiemv to outrage a law-abidmg and peaceful people. It warns bruits that they join at their own is rumoured in Cork that a. ™eetini of +he Irish Republican Brotherhood was held just before the murder Mr Mac Curtain, Lord Mayor of fork at which Mr Mac Curtain was nresent. Several members were excelled apparently because thev were unwilling to continue the r" llC 7 in order. One who was expelled was ■diet after leaving the meeting, and Mr MncCnrtain's death is attributed to a Sl T?is r a?ser?ed that recent murders attributed to Sinn Fein wero earned out hv fToiips of Tiirpd assassins paid by an A 'ts ««* shot dead Thomas Dwver. aged 25 m a house at .third murder m Tinnerary district in three days. Later particulars show that Dwyer was a publican and a brother of a pnest in Australia. His sister, Mrs Delaney, iskcd the knockers through the keyhole who they were. "Friends, was tho replv. "Ts Tom inside? ' Mrs Delaney replied that he was not there. The knockers then broke down the door. Dwyer, who had been asleep upstairs, came Hown, and met fi/e n«.l men. One covered his Bister with a rifle, and the rest fired, and Dwyer foil, riddled with bullets. As he lay on the floor, one of the assailants asked if fie had had enough. Arothe- said: "Give him another." A final shot was then fired into tho bodv. One of the murderers then asked his sister: Is there anyone to bo shot,? I he murderers then left, firing further shots outside, apparently for tho purpose ot terrorism:?! „ . . _ Almost simultaneously, an explosion occurred in the house of Richard Small, who was the Poor Law Guardian, which wrecked the front of a has been the scene of several murders during recent months. James McCarthy, a baker at Thurles, responding to a knock at the door after midnight on Friday, was shot Bead. His brother accuses tho police of the crime. Mr Alan Bell's assassination was apparently arranged to the minutest deFour fellow passengers waited for the moment when one tapped Mr Bell in the shonldcr and said: "Your time Jias come!" , . ~ Mr Bell was forcibly removed to the footpath and shot dead. The assassins then walked off unvracernedly and separated. GUN-RUNNING PLOT. (United Serviee.l

LONDON, March 29. Following the recent seizure of smuggled guns, tho Admiralty detained tho captains of two ships, and secured details" of a scheme for supplying Sinn Feiners with great quantities of arms. The ringleader operates in Hamburg, posing as a German nobleman.