POLICE BARRACKS BURNED.

Marlborough Express, Volume LIV, Issue 127, 1 June 1920, Page 5

POLICE BARRACKS BURNED.

FARM HAND BEATEN TO DEATH.

SERIOUS TRANSPORT SITU-

ATION

(Received May 31, 7.45 p.m.) LONDON, May 30. Armed men entered the town of Louth, near Dundalk. Ireh-nd, while the residents were at church. They destroyed the police barracks and (courthouse. When the residents came out of church they were compelled to fetch and carry for the raiders. The- burning barracks ignited and destroyed a. row of houses. Jxirors who were summoned for the inquests on the Ivilmarnock victims absented themselves through fear of victimisation.

Michael Toble, a farm hand, refused to • quit the service of an labnoxious farmer at Ballyglass, County IVJayo. Ho was waylaid by: unrecognisable persons and beaten to death. The situation arising out of the transporters' refusal to move soldiers or militaiy stores is becoming serious. The drivers in the south refused to drive troop trains for % the troops, "who are arriving, in considerable numbers at Queensto-vn. The position is considered to be disquieting. The Daily Chronicle states that an important' meeting of . Cabinet lias T>een summoned for to-day to discuss the situation in. Ireland. Lord French, Sir Hamar Greenwood, and Sir Nevill Mncready will attend. Cabinet will, if necessary, provide means for moving troops and sup* plies. It is estimated that there.is now 50,000 troops in Ireland, and several other battalions have been ordered to proceed from England. The Chronicle says editorially: "It is high time that the Sinn Fein conspirators \vdre frankly treated as rebels."