IRELAND

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLI, Issue XLI, 4 July 1921, Page 5

IRELAND

POLICE OFFICERS KILLED

SINN FEINERS SENTENCED

""*" \ - mm ,m m AMERICAN SYMPATHISERS

*T CABLE—PaBSS^ASSpCIATION-COSYBIGni / . LONDON, July :2.

Sergeant Johnson and Constable Hill "were killed and five other constables "wounded in an ambush at Oola, County. ILimerick.

Constable Shelster ■was^shot de^ad at IBansha, Tipperary. r • ; Seven police were amfoushetLat Bally--■gar, Galway, and three were wounded. Armed men took Francis Sullivan 'from his home at Rosscarberry, -Cork, Vnd his dead body was subsequently Xound nearby. >■■}.;' , Thirty men ambushed seven cou.■stables near Sligo and: wounded one •and captured two, whom they after■wards murdered in cold blood.

At the Kent Assizes, "VVilliam Rob■inson was sentenced to twelve, years, three other Sinn Feiners to ten N years, on charges of shooting at police

~with intent to murder while escaping |A "in a faxi-eab near Bromley, after cut- - V i>ing telegraph wires. , .

At ;the Newcastle Assizes Sinn Fein•ers named James Conroy and Owen Salmon were sentenced to seven years and John McAlinson to five years for parson. ''\ -;■'.•:■•••.■'•■■■■■■'• '^''■ v -■ * •".•■"-. '

De Valera, in a proclamation on be"half of the Dail Eireann, says the flag $>i the United States will be officially: honoured throughout; Ireland on Monday in appreciation of the sympathy and aid given the Irish people ( by their ■friends in the United- States and as a ■recognised symbol of the principle that 'Governments derive ; their just powers ■from the. consent of the governed.

An auxiliary patrol surprised a party of Sinn Feiners lying behind a Tailway embankment near Castlebay•ney. The 'auxiliaries fired, killing two. They captured the remainder, several ■of T^hom were, wounded, together witn ■twelve guns and a quantity of ammuraition. ' ■