TRAGEDY OF IRELAND.

Manawatu Times, Volume XLVI, Issue 2123, 15 May 1922, Page 5

TRAGEDY OF IRELAND.

CRIME UPON CRIME. [By Electric Cable —Copyright-! [Aust. and N.Z. Cable Association.] (Received Sunday, 7 p.m.) LONDON, May 13. I.R.A. Irregulars, after evicting the coastguards from the British Naval wireless station at Bunbeg, and auctioning the furniture and fixtures, set fire to the building. The damage ia estimated at £20,000. A deputation from the Protestant Synod of Ireland saw Mr Collins and asked him if the provisional Government desired to retain the Protestants of Southern Ulster or wanted them to go., Mr Collins assured them the Government would protect citizens and ensure civil and religious liberty and that spoliation and confiscation would not be tolerated. A dastardly Sinn Fein outrage occurred at Belfast, resulting in the death of a tram conductor named Mansfield. He found an attache case which had been left behind in a tram and while taking it to the lost property office, the infernal machine within the case exploded, killing Mansfield and wounding three others. Five armed men held up a light engine and forced the pay clerk riding on the footplate to hand over £IOOO, intended as wages for the locomotiva staff. The men escaped. ATTACKS ON FREEMASONS. (Received Monday, 2.0 a.m.) LONDON, May 14. Owing to attacks on Masonic halls and Freemasons, Earl Donaghmore has ordered the suspension of all lodge meetings throughout the Irish Free State.