IRELAND

Evening Star, Issue 17320, 7 April 1920, Page 4

IRELAND

OUTRAGES AND ARRESTS. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. LONDON, April 5. Three person's were arrested in a raid which was made on tho barracks at Donegal. One raider was killed. Four- motor lorries and armored cars raided a small refreshment room in the centre of Dublin in the afternoon. ' Seven persons were arrosted. A crowd gathered and sang rebel songs. Tlie rebels fired a few shots in tho air. There were no casualties. A number of masked men on Sunday night savagely maltreated with sticks an ex-soldier employed as a lodgekeeper at the Summerhiil nunnery in Athlone. They then tied him to a tree. The victim bit through the rope and crawled home in a serious condition. April 6. Dublin Castle emphatically denies the American reports of a massacre in Ireland, and states that 155 persons vacated the .barracks which were destroyed. Their destruction entails, a heavv burden on the taxpayers. AMERICAN AGITATORS. WASHINGTON, April 5. Two women who were picketing tho British Embassy and advocating the" freedom of Ireland were arrested. SUPPRESSION OF CRIME. NEW METHODS REQUIRED. LONDON, April 5. • The ' Times's' Dublin correspondent writes: "All sections of public "opinion realise that the Government must change their methods quickly _to prove their earnestness for a settlement. They must devise new methods to suppress crime. The authorities are confronted with a heavv task, but if they are firm and tactful they will find immediate support from large sections of tho community. The most- deplorable feature of the latest outrages was the existence of such a widespread plot without the authorities having the slightest foreknowledge. Raids were carried out simultaneously throughout the country, the incendiaries in every injtari.ce escaping detection." IRISH PRESS COMMENT. MORE "TRIUMPHS" FORESHADOWED. The 'lrish Times,' commentinS on the outrages, says: "Government is being rudely and swiftly snatched from the English." * _ ' Freeman's Journal' says : " Patience and brains already are more than a match for bayonets and barricades, and more memorable triumphs are not likely to be long delayed."