TROUBLED IRELAND

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 186, 3 May 1920, Page 6

TROUBLED IRELAND

MILLSTREET BANK ROBBERY

DISCOVERY OF STOLEN MONEY

By Telograpll-Presg Association-Copyright

London, April 30. Tho "Daily Chronicle' 6" Dublin correspondent states that halt' of tlio .£IB,OOO stolen at MilMreet has been recovered, and probably the rest will soon bis found. Gold and notes were, found in strange places. Some was in an oven; some in a silver ' teapot buried in the turf, <somo in a saucepft'n sunk in a bog. Notes were found nailed'to the underpnrt of, a dresser. Tho six kidnapped men are in a secret prison, almost surrounded by water, and protected with barbed-wire. They are allowed two hours for exercise overy day, and tobacco and milk. A screen ,of scouts exercise., perpetual vigilance to\ prevent a. surprise on the prison by a hostile party.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. TSix men who recently stole from a bank at Millstreot were subsequently 6eized by armed Sinn Feiners and compelled to tell whero they had hidden the money. Their captors offered to hand the thieves over to tho law.! MORE PRISONERS FOR WORMWOOD SCRUBS 150 HUNGER-STRIKERS. London, April 29. Another batch of Sinn Feuiers has been brought to London. Soldiers escorted sixteen motor-lorries to Wormwood Scrubs Prison. One hundred and fifty prisoners are hunger-striking.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. CROWDS CLEARED AWAY BY POLICE. London, April 30. A large number of police at Wormwood Scrubs cleared away the crowds of Sinn Feiners and anti-Sinn Feiners at nightfall, before the free fights became tari<i.is. Three more hunger-strikers have been sent to the nursing home.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable' Assn. • . , THREATENED STRIKE WORK AT LIVERPOOL HARDLY AFFECTED.. . London, April 29. Only four thousand Liverpool dockers struck to-day as a protest against tho imprisonment of the Sinn Feiners at Wormwood Scrubs, and the. work of tho port is hardly affected.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. ■■' ■ (Rec. May 2, 11 p.m.) •' ' London,. April 30. ' The position of the Irish at Liverpool i 3 unchanged. ■ The port is normal; except the services to Ireland—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. • POLICY OF SILENCE ABANDONED , SIR NEYIL MACREADY FAVOURS. PUBLICATION OF FACTS. Dublin. April 28. Sir Nevil Macready, in an interview, indicated that tho policy of silence would lw abandoned. He was himself prepared to receive newspaper men nnd to explain all the facts about outrages in possession of the military.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. FARMER COERCED TO SURRENDER LAND. ; London, April 30. > The Crimo Court at Mayo sentenced six men to a. month's imprisonment for coercing a farmer to surrender his land under threat of death.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.