SINN FEIN MENACE

Gisborne Times, Volume LIII, Issue 5536, 19 July 1920, Page 5

SINN FEIN MENACE

POLICE ENCOUNTERS WITH SINN FEINERS.

FORTY REBELS KILLED THIRTY ARRESTED.

CABINET DISCUSS MARTIAL LAW.

FORTY JURYMEN BOYCOTT ASSIZES.

THREATS TO DRIVERS CAUSE RAILWAY DISLOCATION.

United Press Association—Cuovrisrlp(Received July 19, 11.5 p.m.) LONDON, July 17. Constable Mesterton. when motoring homewards, was shot dead near Limerick.

Fort}' special jurymen attended a meeting called anonymously at Cork and decided to boycott the Assizes. Recent encounters' with Sinn Feiners resulted in the police killing fifty and arresting thirty. Many successful raids for arms were effected .

It is understood that Cabinet during the coming week will discuss proclaiming martial law in affected districts. It is reported that Sir Hamar Greenwood opposes martial law. He believes there is a growing disgust at the action of. Sinn Fein extremists. The police are receiving secret offers of assistance in several districts. . Sinn Feiners continue to warn drivers that they will he shot if ' the trains carry troops. Consequently the train services suffer dislocations. One hundred armed men stopped the. midnight mail train between Belfast and Londonderry, covered the driver, fireman and guard with . revolvers. seized official correspondence and decamped. Another gang stopped a passenger train at a remote station on the Dundalk-Enskillen line and kidnapned the driver and fireman, leaving the train stranded. Dublin Castle lias authorised the police to invoke military aid in suppressing and arresting Irish volunteers assembling in order to undertake self-assumed police functions.— A. and N.Z.C.A.

POLICE AND REBELS FIGHT FOR HOUR. CONSTABLE SHOT ON AVAY TO ROSCOMMON ASSIZES. BUNCRANA~COURTHOUSE BURNED. (Received July 18, 5.5 p.m.) LONDON, July 17. A battle lasting an hour raged in the village of Ballylanders in County Limerick before dawn. Sixty police and soldiers carrying out a raid search for arms arrived in motor lorries and were greeted with shots from windows and chimneys and behind fences. The Sinn Feiners continued the fusilade until the troops, after promptly taking cover, energetically replied to the attack and gained the upper band, capturing eight S'inn Feiners, one being badly wounded. It was announced at Roscommon Assizes that a constable was shot dead on his way to the Assizes. The judge said: tt Tt shows the deplorable condition of the country that a man should be assassinated for coming to do his duty.” Sinn Feiners burned jßuncrana Courthouse in County Donegal.—A. and N.Z.C.A.

SINN FEIN COURT AT WORK

ENGLISH DESERTERS DEPORTED

(Received July 18, 5.5 p.m.) LONDON. July 17. A Sinn Fein court at Thurles ordered the deportation of four deserters from English regiments who had a brief career as highwaymen. Thev stole bicycles and held up and robbed several "travellers. Sinn Feiners escorted the prisoners aboard b steamer bound for England.—A. and N .Z.C-.A.