ULSTER FRONTIER

Evening Star, Issue 17923, 20 March 1922, Page 4

ULSTER FRONTIER

REPUBLICAN TROOPS IN-FQWHk' AT ODDS -WITH FKlffi -STATEES, ,; ; Press Association—By Telegraph'—Copyright, LONDON, March 18. A dangerous situation is arising on the Ulster frontier. Throe bridges on the Fermanagli side- of the border havo been blown up, and tho road from Clones to Cavan cut. Tho Irish Republican troops are gather; ing in stronger force on the borders of Monaghan and Tyrone. Many houses and halls have been commandeered. Tho Free State Government has commandeered Castle Blayney,_ which has been a Republican barracks, Tho Republicans havo" retaliated and commandeered the hotel where they aro quartered. Tho town is now divided into two armed camps.—A. and N.Z. Cable. A WARNING TO BRITAIN. LONDON, March 18. An Irish bulletin warns Britain in the following terms: —"If it is a fact that six battalions of British troops will be used in Ulster, under Field-marshal Sir Henry Wilson, in his capacity as civil head of tho Northern, police, Southern Ireland will bo quickly lost to the Empire, for the simple reason that it will regard tho treaty as fundamentally broken." —A. and N.Z, Cable.

BELFAST OUTRAGES. TWO DEATHS. LONDON, March 18. Two men were shot dead in Belfast while proceeding to work. A woman was killed by a bomb explosion. A.uothor bomb was thrown at a tramcar. One man was killed and three others injured.—A. and N.Z. Cable. TROUBLE AT CORK. ASTRAY WITH REPUBLICAN PATROL. LONDON, March 18. A large crowd camo into conflict with a Republican patrol of five men in Cork, and badly mauled them. The patrol..,was obliged to use arms. A man named Morgan was killed, and another man was wounded. One policeman was wounded. Tho crowd eventually dispersed.—A. and N.Z. Cable. ST. PATRICK'S DAY. REPUBLICAN CELEBRATIONS. LONDON, March 18. Tho Republican army celebrated St. Patrick's Day by holding military evolutions, including tho trooping of the tri-color-Sinn Fein flag in Dublin. Religious services, with sermons in Erse, were held in tho churches of all denominations throughout tho country.—A. and N.Z. Cable. DE VALERA'S AGITATION. LONDON, March 18. Mr Do Valera, who was accompanied by an armed guard in motor cars, speaking at Carrick to 700 members of the Republican army and 2.000 others, said : " If the treaty is not rejected it will mean, civil war. The Irish soldiery may fight for independence* over the dead bodies of the soldiers of tho Government set up by the treaty supporters."—A. and N.Z. Cable.