IRELAND

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LIV, 24 March 1921, Page 5

IRELAND

MANY MORE AMBUSHES HEAVY LOSS (>K I.IKK (By Electric Telegra ph- Copyright) (Australian A N.Z. Cable Assiwiaimu) LONDON. Marcli 22. AuHliarv police held up people and hooKmakiis going io Hie Kells races ( Wi-sl iilea ih ) ami compelled (lie’ll io idl up 1 reuclies outside Mullingar. 1 lie work was arduous and unpleasant, am! (he amateur tolignc parlies made a poor show will) picks and slkucU. A large body ol men eiiter-'d lee gomk depm ol' Ihe Greai Som hern and Wes;,-rii Railway a; Cork. Co-'er-iug Ihe officials with revoheis, they iorced them in surrender (wo loads c, good- consigned lo Cork Barrm-ks. the good•; consisted mostly ol oloiiinig and Red Cross equipment. A farmer's son. aged 10, walking with a gill in ihe Meiiagh district, ignored the (Town ioree s challenge io halt, ami was slmi dead. r l he cnriV-v. hour at Dublin has been ii\-ed ,11 six in ihi' evening over Ihe week-end. covering Easier Monday. 1 lie lifili anniversary of dm insnrree--1 ion. LONDON-, March 2:1. Three hours’ desperate lighting billowed i he ambush of a police patrol a; Dingle. Kerry. Eight civilians were hilled and 2o wounded. Kour police were wounded, not seriously. A police pairol was ambushed 111 the mountains eight miles from Westpori. Sergeant Goghlan was killed mid two officers wounded. Police and military searching; for wauled men in the Blarney district, were at larked from a farm outhouse. Six civilians were shot- dead in a running light- lasting; an hour ill. Lispole. One policeman is dead and Jive were wounded. Kive -Sinn Keiners were captured, hut escaped. Crown forces aliempled io encircle (he ambush, hut failed. Two hundred rebels am hushed a parly ol (lie Ninth Lancers proceeding from Siokcsiown to Longford for rations, Captain Peak was killed and all the remaining' Lancers wounded. Tho aiiackers secured arms and ammunition. A police* patrol at Dundrum was ambushed. Bombs were (brown Horn behind a wall. Two constables were wounded. A district inspector was hit by a bomb uhile leaving barracks, bin he was not. injured. In an allack on l.oyalisls in Hie Rosslea district. Gordon Nexon was shoe dead. Three farmhouses were burned. Two of the soldiers wounded at Headford died. Police were ambushed a I Keadow, inn being -ailed.