IRISH TENSION

Evening Post, Volume XCIX, Issue 70, 23 March 1920, Page 8

IRISH TENSION

SLAYING OF A LORD

MAYOR

PUBLIC OF CORK MYSTIFIED

"BLACK HAND " SOCIETIES.

'(HNlTtn MESS ASSOCIATION.—COPYRIOHT.)

(ABSTRALIAN-NEW ZEALAND CASIB ASSOCIAIION.)

(Received March 23~ ■ 2 p.m.)

..." ;..;:, LONDON,.,22nd March. ' The Daily Mail's Dublin correspondent states that the public of Cork are mystified by the murder of the Lord Mayor, and are asking what was the motive for lulling a man who is praised as a Sinn Fein leader. The Daily Mail considers that this and other recent murders reveal the existence of secret " black hand" societies, sworn to kill ithose who are considered traitors to the -Irish Republic. -Recently- a-..notice 'was posted in the Catholic church at Mitchelston, County Cork, threatening death to any civilians who gave information to the police or soldiery, and mockingly signed, "A competent military authority." Similar notices have since freely appeared in the Southern and Western districts. It is significant to recall that a well-dressed man was mysteriously murdered in a Dublin street two days after the seizure of Dublin Castle ■ correspondence containing secret Government reports.