IRISH CRISIS.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXVIII, Issue 18434, 14 June 1920, Page 7

IRISH CRISIS.

ATTACK ON POLICE BARRACKS. By Telegraph—Press Association—CopyrigHt. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. LONDON, June 11. During an attack on the police barracks at Carrigadrohid, County Cork, a constable dropped his rifle and played a violin with the idea of cheering his comrades. The attaok failed, but the barracks was partly destroyed by explosives and petrol.

VATICAN'S ATTITUDE. ROME, June 11. A semi-official communication from the Vatican dissociates itself from the 10-oalled Irish Ambassador at Rome. The Vatican declares that it took no fiction ■which might be construed as acknowledgment, nor was any personage Df the Roman curia present at the recent recaption of the Ambassador.

POLICEMAN MURDERED. (Received June 13, 5.5 p.m.) LONDON, June 11. A party of ten shot Constable Carroll dead in public view,, in raid-after-noon, outside the. Railway Hotel at Limerick.

COMPENSATION. LONDON, June 11. The Dublin Recorder awarded £4650 to the widow and £2OOO each to the two daughters of Mr Redmond, Assistant Commissioner of Police, who tvas shot dead in a Dublin street in January; also £SOOO to the widow of Mr Alan Bell, a Dublin Magistrate, )vho was assassinated in March.