IRELAND.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 25 March 1922, Page 5

IRELAND.

CARRYING ARMS

DEATH PENALTY SUGGESTED

MURDER AND OTHER CRIMES

-BY CABLE—PBESS ASSOCIATION—UOPY&IGHT LONDON, March 24. The motion by the Attorney-General -in the Ulster Parliament auaed the -tleath penalty for bomb-throwing and - -manufacturing bombs. Tne Atoorney--jGeneral added that if these powers were -snot sufficient he was prepared to advise •jthe Government to enact the death pen- • 'ftlty for carrying arms. Bombing continues, despite this deter--inination. A bomb was flung at a house -in Skringa Street and dangerously wounded the occupants' son and daugh■ifcer, aged sixteen and seventeen. Most appalling conditions continue in ■County Tyrone. Extensive buildings ■owned by Patrick Daly, a Sinn Feiner ■at Carrickmore, were destroyed by tire. It is believed to be a reprisal for the ••jlestruetion. of loyalists' houses. ■ The position at Caledon and Aghna*<sloy is more acute, machine-guns being in action by the force of the Free State, ! •vclose to Callagh bridge, which is in rpins. Mqst of the houses dja ithe! "yicinity have been evacuated. Agricultural work has been suspended. : Tie Republicans are appearing openly I ffjil uniform. jy The assassination of two members of ; *ie constabulary in broad daylight in "the heart of Belfast caused a sensation I in the city. Constables Carnduff and1 ''Cunningham were on beat duty when '■ •a gang came up behind, and discharged! -their revolvers into them. Carnduff was ; killed instantly and Cunningham mor-' "tally wounded, but the assassins fired \ "further shots into them and then ran "to a motor., which drove off furiously, j "Civilians pursued the car, but it escaped : into the Sinn Fein district, where a, ■^search was without result. The angry! * crowd would have lynched the murder- j -ers if they had been caught. LONDON, March 23. On, a vote for £1,300,000 for miscellaneous services to be administered by "fthe Provisional Government of Ireland, ! Colonel Newman, jn the House of Com- i xnons, complained that the financial ar- j Tangements with the Sinn Fein' Govern- j ;ment had been detrimental to the loyaL ' ists in Southern Ireland in relation to ' "the settlement of claims for compensa-! "tion. j Mr. Churchill said we would not pay' f for damage done by our people, as the < bargain to pay for damage done to our "people was not observed. The House -agreed to the vote. i In the House of Lords, Lord Peel "moved an amendment to the Irish Bill making it clear that the month in which I Ulster could contract herself out of the •' treaty would operate from the sanction- [ ing of the Free State constitution, not' from the passing of the Bill. I The amendment was agreed to and' "the report stage was concluded. The! reading was adjourned until Mon"day, at Lord Carson's request, as he to consult his friends in .Ulster '"Teffardinec Lord Peel's amendment, which', he says, will have most grave! results. i Armed men broke into the residence' ■ -of Owen MacMahon. ? well-known Bel-! ' f ast salnon-keener at 1.20 in the morning and murdered him and his three : •sons. A fourth s'vti and barman were *>• dangerously wounded.