IRELAND'S TRAGEDY

Feilding Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 4589, 15 May 1922, Page 3

IRELAND'S TRAGEDY

SECOND EDITION Stab Office, 2.30 p.m

ROBBERIES, FIRES, AND MURDER. WIRELESS STATION WRECKED. (By Eloetric Cable— Copyright.) (Auat. and N.Z. Cable Association.) London, May 13. I.R.A. Irregulars, after evicting the coastguards from the British Naval wireless station at Bimbegy and auctioning tho furniture and fixtures, set fire to the. building. Tho damage is estimated at £20,000. A dastardly Sinn Fein outrage occurred at Belfast, resulting in " the death of a tram conducted named Mansfield. He found an attache case which had been loft behind in a tram and while taking it to tho lost property office, the infernal machine within the case exploded, killing Mansfield and wounding three others. Five armed men held up a light engine and forced the pay clerk riding on the footplate to hand over £IOOO, intended as wages for the locomotive staff. Tho men escaped. PROTECTION FOR PROTESTANTS A deputation from the Protestant Synod of Ireland saw Mr Collins and asked him if the provisional Government desired to retain the Protestants of Southern Ulster or wanted them to go. Mr Collins assured them the Government would protect citizens and ensure civil and religious liberty and that spoliation and confiscation would not be tolerated. ATTACKS ON FREEMASONS. London, May 14. Owing to attacks on Masonic halls and Freemasons, Earl Donaghmore has ordered the suspension of all lodgo meetings throughout the Irish Free State. CASUALTIES IN BELFAST. (Received May 15, noon.) London, May 14. Six persons were wounded during street fighting in Belfast on Sunday. A patrol of six police was ambushed in Lurgan, four being wounded.