IRELAND'S TROUBLES.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LVI, Issue 17145, 26 April 1919, Page 9

IRELAND'S TROUBLES.

. DEFIANT SINN FEINERS. MURDER OF A MAGISTRATE. , LbNDON. April I. The Times correspondent at Dublin 6tatea that Lord French returns to face intensified d faculties. The Bum Fein element is defiant and elated over recent events, notably the escapes from Mountjoy i Gaol, which are causing the Government to look ridiculous. Raids in search of arms and attacks on life and property are everywhere increasing unchecked. Mr. Milling, the resident magistrate at Weatport, County Mayo, died from wounds. Five shots were fired through a window in his house. No arrests have been made. The parish priest denounced the assassins from the pulpit. A Dublin message states that at Limerick a prisoner was shot in the neck and back during his rescue. He was carried i off on a donkey-cart, and died. The corpse was hidden in a lonely house alt Clare, where the police discovered arrested the inmates. The Government has proclaimed Limerick a military area, and is enforcing the Crimes Act of 1882 in Ireland. The Daily Mail's Dublin correspondent says it i 3 reported that a secret society is responsible for the present series of or■Tanifed .murders. The terrorising of the community continues unchecked, despite i Sinn Fein disavowals from the nr pits.