BLOODSHED

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLI, Issue 9857, 27 July 1914, Page 5

BLOODSHED

NATIONALIST GUNRUNNERS VILLAGE CROWD FIRED ON BY POLICE ANO SOLDIERS. THREE KILLED AND FORTY WOUNDED. INCLUDING WOMEN AND CHILDREN.

(fit Enormia Thjoiapb—Commit.) (Pra fuh AHocuno>.i Received July 27, 1.55 p.m. LONDON, Jtiiy 26. On Sunday morning a yacht landed 2500 rifles and 170,000 rounds of ammunition at Howth, Nationalist volunteer* meanwhile cutting the telegraph wires and stopping communication with Dublin. A mo-tor-car was used to convey the arms to the interior. — * The police and a company of Soottish Borderers went to*Howth in the afternoon and seized a hundred rifles. When returning to Dublin a crowd of youths followed, stoning and booing the troops and cheering Mr The troops fired several volleys. They killed three and wounded 40. some mortally. The wounded inoludea women and children.

ULSTERMEN MAKE PREPARATIONS.

LONDON. July 26. A meeting of the Supply Board of the Provisional Government at Belfast voted 50,000 tone of provisions, sufficient to meet the wante of the people within an area of 20 milea of Belfast for six weeks.

The belief exist* that the provisional Government will assume control next week. Preparations are being made for a blockade. COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF VISITS THE KING.

Received July 27, 8.45 a.m. LONDON, July 26. General Sir A. H. Paget, commander n Ireland, visited the King.

SEIZURE OF AMMUNITION. Received July 27, 8.45 a.m. LONDON, July 26. The police of Birmingname seized 40,000 rounds of ammunition destined for Ireland. . STATESMEN'S VIEWS. 1 LONDON, July 26. Mr Birrell, speaking at Metdrum, said the Conference, though a failure, was well worth holding. He added that the Government would go forward with the proposal* already made which would enable every one of the nine Counties of Ulster to vote itself out. He felt sure there will be no civil war

Lord Haldane, addressing the City Liberal Club, said the Conference failed in regard to details and not to principles. The Liberal Party realised the gravity of the situation but by their principles they must stand or fall. Earl Beauchamp regretted the failure of the Conference. He said it seemed thinkable that a solution was not found yet. It seemed that those who for months and years had been preaching civil war, and whose tongues were flaming swords, were not men to deal with the situation. Mr Redmond has summoned a meeting of the Irish Party at the House of Commons on Monday. PROSPECTS OF AN ELECTION. LONDON, July 26. , Strict orders have been issued to the staffs of the chief electoral organisations j to keep within touch. Many Radical papers express disapproval of a general election.