THE IRISH TURMOIL.

Manawatu Times, Volume XLII, Issue 1736, 11 February 1921, Page 5

THE IRISH TURMOIL.

RAILWAY STRIKE THREAT. BLACK AND TANS CHARGED WITH SHOOTING RAILWAY MEN IN THEIR TRACKS.—AN INQUIRY INSISTED UPON. [By Electric Cable —Copyright.) [Aust. and N.Z. Cable Association.] (Received Thursday, S.lO p.m.) LONDON, February 9. A railway strike by the Associated Society of Locomotive Engineers and Firemen is threatened as the result of the shooting at the railway station at Mallow (cabled on February 1). The executive has sent the Government a peremptory demand for an inquiry, otherwise they will strike on Tuesday. They allege some of their members were killed and wounded. The secretary (Mr Bromley) states the situation is of the gravest. “The society is determined to see justice done,” he said. "Our members had nothing to do with the shooting of Captain and Mrs King. We are asking the National Union of Railwaymen for support, but in any case we are going on with it. i I ' Later. lihere is some doubt as to the locomotive men’s next move should the Government refuse an inquiry. The railway officials state that they are keeping their plans secret, but it is understood notices have been despatched to branches, who have been ordered to cease work on the loth, unless the order is previously countermanded. The Irish railwaymen’s’ version of the Mallow affair declares that Black and Tans rounded up the station staff, marched them into the road, told them to run for their lives, and fired as they ran, killing two. Sixteen others escaped on a locomotive. 1 ROBBERY AND BLOODSHED. LONDON, February 9. The Sinn Feiner. McGinn was sentenced to ten years’ penal servitude and MacErlane, Clark s and Doherty to eight years for wounding a policeman at Bothwell. Armed men held the approaches to Wellington Quay, Dublin, while eight men looted a jeweller’s shop of £3OOO worth of goods. Joseph Jordon, the rate collector at Ballagaderren, who was kidnapped three months ago, and who claimed £IO,OOO compensation, was awarded £3,210, on the ground of personal injuries and damage to furniture. His captors forced him to sign cheques for £7OO and £BOO, which were cashed. Armed men at Drogheda took Alexander Halpin and John Moran from their beds and shot them outside their house. The bodies were taken to the military barracks, where an inquiry was held. It is stated that both were Sinn Feiners.