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A DIVISION IN REBEL CAMP. (By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) tPER PEKB» ASSOCIATION.] (Received. June 26, 8.45 a.m..) London, Juno 25. The Daily News correspondent, who talked with Sinn Foinors in Dublin during tho'week-end. believes that an acute division is probable, as one sec tion is aiming at an independent republic. The other, which is more numerous, i« desirous of self-govern-ment along colonial lines, with a Pro visional Council, on the South Afri can and Canadian model. THE CORK RIOTING. THIRTY PERSONS INJURED. (Rcecived June 20, 10.15 a.m.) London. June 20. Thirty persons were more or less seriously injured by bayonets at Cork. One man was shot and killed, while two policemen who were struck by bullets were uninjured. Host of the rioters disappeared when the machine suns were brought out. THE SINN FEINEKS AGAIN. AN OUTBREAK IN CORK. / London, June 2-1. The Sinn Feiners tit Cork hoisted a republican flag on the court-house on Sunday, broke the windows of the recruiting offices, and held a public meeting' denouncing the Convention. Some of the'released'prisoners stated that they were ready for another rebellion. Later. There wan further rioting at Cork on Sunday evening. The Sinn Feiners attacked the recruiting .office, and the relatives of men at the front resented this. The police made baton charges. As these were ineffectual; the military were called out. with machine-guns. The police were renentcdly stoned, and bad to act draslicallv. Shots .were fired. One man was killed and another wounded, besides ? dozen wounded with bayonets. The. disorders were quelled at midnight. (llcccived June 2(5, !U.~> a.m.) T. P. O'CONNOR AHHIVES. Washington, June 2-">. Mr T. P. O'Connor, M.P.. the Irish Nationalist, Leader, who is on a l.fonie Rule mission, "has arrived, en route to Washington to explain the Irish i*sikj) as they relate to America.
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Feilding Star, Volume XIII, Issue 3276, 26 June 1917, Page 3
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