IRELAND

Evening Star, Issue 17599, 2 March 1921, Page 7

IRELAND

GOVERNMENT INFLEXIBLE. PRESENT POLICY TO BE CONTINUED. fc«M AstecUtiou—By Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, February 28. Mr Lloyd George, in the House of Commons. stated that the Government did not intend to alter its present policy of maintaining order in Ireland. Sir Hamar -Greenwood would be_allowed to catty his administration to a successful conclusion. —A. and N.Z. Cable. THE CORK EXECUTIONS. REPRISALS BY SINN FEINERS. SOLDIERS MURDERED. LONDON, March 1. ,s an ontcome of the Cork executions, gunmen attacked soldiers in the streets of Cork, killing five and wounding eleven. A number of civilians were also wounded. An official report states that the soldiers murdered were unarmed. The crowds outside the barracks at Cork during the executions recited prayers, and then 'dispersed quietly, but the city was excited. The tension, which increased hourly, culminated at dark in a number of encounters between soldiers and civilians. Two soldiers were killed and six soldiers and several civilians were wounded. General Strickland has ordered all persons to be indoors at 6 o’clock in future. It is rumored in Cork that several persons have recently disappeared, and it is believed that they have been kidnapped, ami that their fate was to depend on the fate of the six men executed.—A. and N.Z. Cable.