LOOTING IN CORK.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLI, Issue XLI, 15 December 1920, Page 5

LOOTING IN CORK.

MILITARY PATROL AMBUSHED

' . LONDON, Dec. 13. Considerable looting took place in Cork outside the fire zone. Burglars .raided a jeweller's, securing; the keys of the strong room at the point of a reyolver. The police fired, killing a woman burglar. _ A military patrol was ambushed at ■'Cloyne. Two of the attackers were killed, several wounded, two were taken :prisoner, and one soldier was wounded. Sinn Feiners attached the Ballinalee police barracks, a:nd, after five hours' fighting, the wall was blown out, but the police succeeded in holding the building One policeman was killed and ■three severely wounded. Sir Hamar Greenwood, in the House •-ef Commons, protested vigorously against the suggestion thatrthe fires in ■Cork were started by the forces of the Crown. There was evidence that incendiary "bombs were used, of. which the Crown forces possessed none, but the « Sinn Feiner® Sid. j The House of Commons negatived ■Commander Ken worthy's motion for an adjournment. He said he had evidence that the outrages in Cork were due to •officers and Crown forces. Soldiers had /been committing, murders nightly in Cork city, while hundreds of shops had been looted and the citizens publicly "Whipped. Sir Hamar Greenwood, in replying, «aid that martial law meant earnest discipline of the forces of the Crown. As a matter of fact, the soldiers saved Cork from absolute destruction,- for! when the fire brigade was exhausted, i;he soldiers and police took over the ■work. There was no evidence that the j police caused the fires, except in a few insiances wfiere bombs were thrown into .a lorry. Replying to Mr Lloyd George's better. Father O'Flanagan states that it is necessary for him to consult Griffiths and J)e Valera before expressing any opinion regarding the possibility of -practical progress on the lines indicated.