IRELAND

Evening Star, Issue 17323, 10 April 1920, Page 6

IRELAND

SIH FEIN EBULLITION'S. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright, Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. LONDON, April. 8. A determined attack was made on the barracks at Boskeen, in Tipperary. Tire police sent up rockets, which were seen at Thuries, -whence reinforcements armed with rifles went to their assistance. On arrival at Boskeen a fight in pitch darkness followed, in which one policeman was wounded. The raiders were driven off. Sinn Feiners raided a fashionable ballroom at Dungavin. They broke the windows and removed Union Jacks decorating the hall, replacing them with Sinn Feiii flags. The bail was then resumed. HUNGER. STRIKE AND CLAIM FOR COMPENSATION. LONDON, ~ April 9. ’Tiro Sinn Feiners in Mount joy Prison continue their hunger strike. Several of thorn are in a critical condition. Mr Alan Bell’s widow Iras lodged a claim against the Dublin Corporation for 310,000 ns compensation for the loss of her' husband[Che late Mr Sell was a Dublin magistrate, who recently was brutally murdered h-v 10 assailants,l

PRISONERS’ GRIEVANCE.

WASHINGTON, April 9. Irish pickets reappeared before the British Embassy and were arrested. ' Previous arrestees complain of the diet of Irish potatoes during their detention in, prison.