IRISH REPUBLICAN ARMY.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIII, Issue 354, 23 March 1922, Page 6

IRISH REPUBLICAN ARMY.

The fofSowing speared In our ' Second Edition of yesterdays—

By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright. Received March 22, 2.20 p.m. LONDON, March 21. In moving the second reading of the Special Powers Bill in the Northern Parliament at Belfast, Mr Megaxv, Minister of Homo Affairs, said that the Irish Republican Army was inactive in Ulster until the truce, after which, according to captured documents, whole bu 1 1 a I ion s were raised and equipped in a single district between September and December. The truce was utilised to organise an army with the view to overthrowing the Northern Government..—Reuter. A large Inree of the Irish Republican ! Army attacked loyalists’ houses in lyrone, and'near the frontier two houses were burned down. The raiders attacked Glen dean Lodge, in Trillick, whose occupier organised a defence, beating off the raiders, but his servant, who was a special policeman, was riddled with bullets. A. and N.Z. cable. , 1 LONDON, March 20. 1 ’Hie murder campaign in Belfast continues unchecked. Hills, an employee ol the corporation, was shot in the face m Templemoro stueoi, and died in «i----hours, Sinn Keincrs also made a murderous attack on three loyalist carters, who made a run. One was seriously wounded. Armed men who broke into her house murdered Mrs Murphy, a Protestant, who had married a Catholic. , 'The tension is most serious near the I Isleiborder. There have been several all rays, Binn Feiners seized thirty Ulster motm ears in County Donegal during ihe weekend, and sent the drivers and owners home telling them not to come hack. Armed bands of the Republican Army carried oin a series of outrages in County Londonderry early on_ Monday morning. Jury set fire to amL destroyed extensive flourmills at Ballyarton, also sawmills, thrashing mills, barns, and other buildings. jhc fit-’ hi up the, country for miles around. AI! the property, which was valued at £4o,(X<u, belonged to members of the Ulster, constabulary. Several bridges were also blown up. Sinn Feiners ambushed Robert Mtillighan, an influential Orangeman, on the Monaghan frontier, and shot- him dead. Constable Steenson, who was with Mum ghait, was seriously wounded. Extremists in the South haw also been active. They kidnapped a number of pro. minent local supporters of the treaty in Cork, and removed them to an unknown, destination. —A. and N.Z, cable.