IRELAND.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 15 May 1922, Page 5

IRELAND.

j ! ATTACKS ON FREEMASONS. j | SINN FEIN OUTRAGE. \ j i i —— i | SAFE.TV OF PROTESTANTS. \ | BY CABLE -PREsS ASSOCIATION—COPYEI GUT ! | LONDON, May 12. i Owing to attacks on Masonic halls S and Freemasons, Earl Donaghmore has ordered the suspension of all lodge ! meetings throughout the Irish Ifree Slate. i ! LONDON, May 13. | A dastardly Sinn Fein outrage occurred at Belfast, resulting in the death! of a tram conductor named Mansfield.: He found an attache case left in a tram, and while taking it to J;he lost property office, an infernal machine within the ease exploded, Killing Mansfield and wounding three others. , Five armed men held up a light engine and forced a pay clerk riding on the footplate to hand over £1000, wages for the locomotive staff. The men escaped. ! I.R-.A. irregulars, after evicting the coastguards from the British naval wireless station at Bunberg and auctioning the furniture and fixtures, set fire to the building. The damage is estimated at £20,000. i A deputation from the Protestant Synod of Ireland saw Mr Michael Collins and asked if the Government desired to retain the Protestants of Southern Ireland or wanted them, to go. | Mr Collins assured them that the Government would protect its citizens and ensure civil and religious liberty, and spoliation and confiscation would not be tolerated. !