BIGGEST COUP YET.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 15 April 1922, Page 8

BIGGEST COUP YET.

• GRAVE MISGIVINGS FELT. .Received April 15, 10.10 a.m. LONDON, April 14. The biggest co-.ip yet effected by the anti-treaty Republicans was accomplished in Dublin at midnfght,' when a , force of 400 seized Four Courts, which !is the seat of the JHigh Court! of Jus- | tice of Southern Ireland. The attackers marched in two forces and. met with no opposition. Several... police were arrested, but later they were liberated. Meanwhile the Republicans seized" the adjacent Four Courts Hotel, ejected the guests, ancl fortified both buildings, . filling the windows with sandbags. They forcibly requisitioned ' tb.e * services of passers-b-" for filling bags with, sand and clay. These buildings were amongst the first public ' buildings which, the rebels took in the Easter rebellion in 1916. The gravest misgivings are felt. The two Belfast civilians killed were bakers named Carmichael and Sloan. |