A SUDDEN SENSATION

Evening Post, Volume CIII, Issue 33, 9 February 1922, Page 7

A SUDDEN SENSATION

KIDNAPPING BY SINN FEINERS

TROOPS INSTRUCTED TO DEFEND

THE BORDEB,

(BKIIIB FlltSS AISOCIATIOH.-COFYMMr.) UUTBAUAN - MIIT IUAUIi* 0«U AHQCMTieN.) (Received February 9, 10 a.m.) LONDON, Bth February.' Mr. Austen Chamberlain announced in the House of Commons that the Government had telegraphed to the commander of the troops in Ireland: "Extensive raids in fllstev are reported. Give the Ulster Government all assistance in defending the boundary." The Government has also telegraphed, Mr. Chamberlain said, asking Ma. Collins to take immediate steps ttf release those who had been captured in the raids over the Ulstei boundary, and stating that the raids had gravely imperilled the Irian Treaty. Mr. Collins, in an interview, attributes the raids to the fact that the raiders did not know that the prisoners sentenced to death for the murders in the Londonderry gaol had been reprieved. Sir James Craig, in a message to the people of Ulster, states that the responsibility for the kidnapping belongs to the British Government for having demobilised the special constabulary;