THE UNREST IN IRELAND.
FURTHER OUTRAGES R ( EPORtED
POLICE USE HAND GRENADES
By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright. Austral ian-Npw Zealand Cable Association Received January 7, 9.20 a.m. LONDON. Jan. 5. Further Irish outrages are reported. Constable Clarke, while walking in a street at Ballylongford, was shot from a wall, 150 pellets lodging in his neck and shoulders. Ilia condition is critical. A number of men waylaid a police patrol who wore protecting a loyal farmer in North Clare. A brisk exchange of shots followed, one constable being wounded. His comrades, using grenades, routed the assailants. This is the first time grenades have been used. . Military aeroplanes are patrolling throughout Ireland, particularly in the neighbourhood of Oarrigtohill. to prevent further assemblies that might lead, to a recurrence of the outrages. ; . The police in Cork visited prominent binn Feiners and interrogated, them regarding their movements on Saturday. The Sinn Feiners are contesting all the eighty scats in the Dublin Corporation elections.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIII, Issue 1717, 7 January 1920, Page 5
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