STRICT CENSORSHIP

Dominion, Volume 16, Issue 156, 20 March 1923, Page 7

STRICT CENSORSHIP

BAN ON AMUSEMENTS IN DUBLIN THEATRES REOPENED UNDER GUARD by telegraph—press Association. —Copyright. London, March 18. The strictest censorship is being exeioised over news from Dublin relating to the struggle between the Free State and Republicans over the amusements ban. Telephone communication with Belfast is cut off. No information is available concerning the previous' night’s trouble. . Free State troops arrived m trie picture houses and theatres at 9 o clock and demanded that they be reopened. Troops were stationed outside. 11m public was cautious and naturally disinclined to risk being caught in a conflict of the rival groups. Great excitement prevailed in connection with the SikidVlcTigue fight, which has no parallel in the history of British pugilism. It was conducted in a bayonet-ringed building, inside which armed men maintained glm™Outside soldiers vigilantly patrolled the vicinity, preventing a threatened attempt to blow up the theatre, A vast crowd defied the rebel order not to witness the fight. ... Before the start, a rebel ultimatum not to fight, written in Irish, was handed to Siki, who speaks and reads French only. In reply to the negro's request for a translation, he was informed that a girl wrote: “You are a fine fellow. I wish you luck. Just before the start a tremendous explosion shook Uio city. Many thought that the rebels had begun their threatened attack on the theatre. They had . indeed exploded a mine near the building, two children were wounded. —Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. COUNTRY HOUSE BURNED (Rec. March 19, 7.20 p.m.) London, March lb. , As a reprisal for last week’s execution of four irregulars at Druinbce Castle, armed men burned Eonnyglen House, in Donegal, tho property of Mr. W. H. M. Sinclair, the British Consul-General at Philadelphia. Hie damage is estimated at £40,000. —Aus.N.Z. Cable Assn BOMBS FOUND IN BELFAST London, March 18. Police made a raid in the ,Cu’ling Tree Road district of Belfast and unearthed 41 bombs and incendiary bomb parts.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.