UP-TO-DATE SINN FEINERS

Greymouth Evening Star, 23 February 1920, Page 5

UP-TO-DATE SINN FEINERS

MuDERN MILITARY PRACTICE.

ATTACK ON BARRACKS.

(Australian and N, Z. Cable Association.}

(Received this day at 11.5 a.m.) LONDON, Feb. 18.

The Recorder at Dublin 'awarded £15,000 sterling as damages U the owners of the newspaper Irish Independent.'' for damage in a Sinn Fein raid.

LONDON, Feb. 19

Armed men attacked 'the police barrack's at Castlegregory, County Kerry. The attackers blew up a portion of the barracks', demanding the surrender o'l the police. Thus was refused and the fight was resum-

,ed. The attackers withdrew leaving; two rifle.;. One policeman was slightly wounded and it is believed that three attackers were wounded. Prior to the attack all the telephone and telegraph connections' were cut. Police from the surrounding areas, hastening'to raise-the siege found roads barricaded by felled tree::, and stones. Earthworks and trenches, had been cut across the roads. TRUE TILL DEATH. (Australian and N, Z. Cable Association.) (Received this day at 10.30 a.m.) LONDON, Feb. 20. A tank, armoured cars, and military motor ears made a raid on premise:: -in Auuger Street, Dublin, and arrested seven men and seized rifles and a quantity of ammunition. It is believed that the civilian wounded in Westmoreland Street was connected with the premises now raided. The civilian although in a critical condition, refuses tu- give the name of his apparently fleeing comrades'- who deserted him in a state of collapse. Ke is not expected to recover. A mystery surrounds the finding of the body of an unidentified nun in a field outside Cork. The head and body were riddled with bullet*;, suggesting an execution and instantaneous death. There were rosary beads; beside tlie body. It is thought Unit the man was shot while praying, expecting death. Farmers in the neighbourhood head shots but were afraid to venture out to investigate. DUBLIN, Feb. 20. A Party of Sinn Feiners fired upon two policemen in Westmoreland St., at one o'clock in the morning. The police returned the fire killing a civilian. Later Constable Walsh v.frsi wounded in Westmoreland Street and subsequently died. Twenty shots were exchanged and three heavily armed civilians were captured. (Received this dav at 9.0 5a.m.) LONDON, Feb. 21. One hundred police and fully armed soldiers were employed in. the Aungier Street raid upon a windowblind factory. In addition to a tank, motor lorries and two armoured cars were engaged, from the turrets of which machine guns were fumed om the crowd watching the operations. Soldiers with fixed bayonets lined the streets while the polios tore up all the flooring of the factory and after two hours brought out the two brothers of MoGrath, and the civilian who was wounded in Westmorland street. The crowd gave the prisoners a thunderous cheer and hissed the soldiers. Police and soldiers are guarding the fM'crcersf Hospital where the; other McGrath b\ lying. The Dublin authorities believe that to-day's arrests will disperse the secret society responsible for many of the recent crimes.

OUT AT THEIR PERIL, (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.! (Received this day "at 9.30 a.m.) DUBLIN, Feb. 21. The Army authorities have ordered all persons after the-23rd inst to remain within doors between, midnight and five in the morning except nurses, clergy and doctors, who will b<> provided with passes. all others will be' liable to be challenged and if they do not obey they do s o at their own peril, LONDON, Feb. 20. Further raids made on private houses in Dublin in the early hours of the morning resulted iu six arrests. When the largest steamer over built iu Ireland was launched at Belfast the Hod Ensign was suddenly hauled down and the Sinn Fein Hag hoisted. HUNTING MXJIIpEItEHS. LONDON, Feb. IS.—Soldiers and using tanks and armoured oars in Dublin huutin?down the perpetrators of the latest murders. .Seven armed men were arrested.