ATTEMPTED ASSASSINATION.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLI, Issue XLI, 10 May 1921, Page 5

ATTEMPTED ASSASSINATION.

THE SOUTHERN ELECTIONS

REVENGE EY MILITARY

LOHDON, May 8. Belfast was startled -by a desperate attempt to assassinate Inspector Ferris, iwho was twice wounded as he was leaving Archdeacon Convery's residence. He was sent to hospital in a •Csritacal condition.

_It is believed this is likely to preju'dioe the peace, moves. Ulster loyalists •WiK not tcflefra/te a further conference ■with Sinn Feiners.

LONDON, May 9. Mr John Dillon, in a manifesto advising Nationalists not to participate ia the southern elections, jsays they «ould only enter the contest as opponents to Sinn Fein, which Tvas using the ■whole organisation to obtain a solid Mock. This will inevitably lead to bitterness and possibly disorder and bloodshed. Though still irreconeildaibly opposed- to the Republicans' pro-1 gramme and methods it was impossible for the Nationalists, under the present -circumstances in Ireland, ito oppose them a*-<;he elections without being charged with supporting the "(black and. tans" and auxiliaries. Sir Hamar Greenwood's policy was brute force, -which the Government adopted against Nationalist advice. After the elections had demonstrated to the world the Government's total failure to obtain a 'settlement, that question would enter a new phase, and the Nationalist would again 'become an essential and powerful element in the situation.

As .revenge for an earlier attack made on a military party when leaving a dance, Crown forces 'broke barracks At Youghal, Cork, and smashed shop and house windows valued at fhousands of pounds.

. Ajs he left a church at Casterisland, Kerry, Head-Constable Storey was shot ■dead.

Rebels attacked a force of military ami police between Cavan and Bailie"borough. After two hours' fighting the rebels' were dislodged, leaving one killed and nine captured. One soldier was wounded.