IRELAND.
CRIMES AGAINST PROTESTANTS.
-^ "DEMAND BY THE FREEMAN'S JOURNAL.
*T CABLE-PRESS ASSOCIATION— COPJTEIGHT LONDON, May 1. A Protestant farmer was murdered At Bandon (County Cork). This is the ninth similar crime in West Cork in six days. Protestants are abandoning their homes throughout the county and going to England, while scores of businesses have been suspended. The Free State general has warned soldiers not to interfere with civilians on pain, of death. ' Rebels ambushed a party of the Royal Irish Constabulary near Drogheda killing, one, wounding one, and capturing a third. They seized their car. The Freeman's Journal, in a leader, j demands that the Dail Eireann and the1 IrKh Republican Army, whatever their difference, should unite to uut an end to the murderous campaign in the vicinity «F Dunmanway. It says some devilishly minded persons seem bent on fixing on -Southern Ireland the hateful disgrace -and stigma that Belfast wears.
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Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 2 May 1922, Page 5
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151IRELAND. Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 2 May 1922, Page 5
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