Scene of Bloodshed.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XI, Issue 53, 16 February 1921, Page 5

Scene of Bloodshed.

REBELS ATTACK TWAIN. 'ANOTHER TRAGIC AFFAIR IN IRELAND MEN, WOMEN AND SOLDIERS KILLED. I ByCable— Preu Association.—Copyright.} (Received 16, 12.50 p.m.) London, Feb. 15. A large party of Republicans ambushed a train at Inishannon. Forty military aboard the train replied to the attackers’ fire, and a fierce battle followed. Six soldiers were wounded, three seriously, and two rebels were killed. Five male passengers and one female were killed, and two railway officers and several others were wounded.—(A. and N.Z.) CORK SENSATION. WINE MERCHANT MISSING. HIS FATE UNKNOWN. DUBLIN MURDERER ESCAPES. (Received 16. 9.25 a.m.) Ixindon, Feb. 15. j Mr. Beale, manager of a Cork wine merchants’ business, is missing. It is believed that he has been kidnapped.) His father-in-law and the latter’s son were kidnapped and shot in December j Francis Teeling, who was sentenced to death for the murder of Lieutenant McMahon, during the Dublin murders, escaped from Kilmainham gaol. One report states that Sinn Feiners attacked the gaol and carried off Teeling.—(A. and N.Z.) GAOL AUTHORITIES DUPED. (Received 16, 12.50 p.m.) London, Feb. 15. The Teeling rescue was daringly carried out. Confederates arrived at Kilmainham in a motor lorry armed with an alleged warrant for the transfer of Teeling to another prison. The authorities appear* to have been completely duped.—(A. and N.Z.) WEST KERBY BLOCKADE. ' STARVING REBELS OUT. WOMEN AND CHILDREN SUFFER. London, Feb. 14. In consequence of the blockade of Western Kerry, the stationmaster on the Tralee-Dingle line reports that supplies are exhausted and women and children are on the verge of starvation. Labour leaders in Loudon have been urged to take immediate action for tho relief of the sufferers.—(A. and N.Z.) [A cable from London on February 10th stated that the blockhouse (? blockade) system had been established over a wide area in Western Kerry.] STARVATION REPORT DENIED. (Received 16, 9.25 London, Feb. 15. Dublin Castle denies the reported starvation in West Kerry, and states that there is no embargo on foodstuffs, which arc plentiful in the district. —(A. and N.Z.) REBEL HUNTS. LANCASHIRE INDIGNATION. REFUSAL TO WORK WITH IRISH. London, Feb. 14. There is intense indignation in Lancashire against the Sinn Feiners. Cotton operatives are organising a movement to refuse to work with Irishmen. The country is being scoured for sucpects in connection with the cases of arson, of whom the police have issued descriptions. Several Irishmen are in custody. The police believe that the plot was hatched in Ireland, and is not due to the Liverpool Irish Sinn Fein. LIVERPOOL CONSPIRACIES. j; THREE MEN SENTENCED. London, Feb. 14. At a result of their trial at Liverpool, Kerr and McCaughley, labourers, were found guilty of conspiracy to murder police and setting fire to warehouses and timber yards in Liverpool and Bottle in December and were sentenced to ten years’ penal servitude. Fowler was found guilty of conspiracy and firing warehouses and was sentenced to two years.—(A. and N.Z.) SINN FEIN TERRORISM. AGAINST EX-SERVICEMEN. London, Feb. 14. Sinn Feiners have instituted a campaign of terrorism against ex-service-men. They have informed twenty-five ex-service men that if they persist in settling on the land they will bo tried by a Sinn Fein court and shot. Landowners offering estates to the Ex-service Commission have been similarly threatened.—(A. and N.Z.) MALLOW SHOOTINGS. LABOUR PARTY’S ATTITUDE. London, Feb. 14. The Parliamentary Labour Party has decided to co-operate with Labour generally in connection with the shooting of railwaymen at the Mallow station in Ireland last month.—(A. and N.Z.)