IRELAND'S TROUBLES

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LIII, Issue 104, 3 May 1919, Page 3

IRELAND'S TROUBLES

DEFIANT!' 1 SIXX FEIXERS

MURDER OF A MAGISTRATE

LONDON. April 1

The Timp s mmwpotident at Dublin •states that Lord French returns to but intensified difficulties. The Sinn Fein element is defiant and elated over recent events, notab Iv the esse pcs from Mount joy Gael, which are causir." the Go-vea-nment to look ridicuiou*. Raids ;n ■search of arms and attacks on hie and

property arc everywhere ii'.ercasxr.a un-

checked

Mr. Milling, the- resident magistrate at Westport, County Mayo ; dicd from woivnde. Five shots were fired through ;i window in his house. No arrests have been made. The parish priest de-nounced-the assaosina from the pulpit. A Dublin message states that ax Limerick a. prisoner was shot in the nook amt hack during his rescue. He was carried off on a donkey cart, and died. The corpse was hidden ' in lonely house at -01 are, where the police discovered it, and arrested the inmates. The Government has Limerick a military area, and is enforcing the Crimes Act of 1882 in Ireland. The Daily Mail’s Dublin correspondent savs ‘it is reported that a secret society 'is responsible for the picent series of organised murders. ( 1 he terrorising of the community continues uir Sk-d, Sim, Fei» imr«mk from the pulpits.