GRIMES IN IRELAND.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LVII, Issue 17459, 1 May 1920, Page 7

GRIMES IN IRELAND.

RAID NEAR DUBLIN.

POLICE BARRACKS BLOWN UP. MAIL TRAIN ROBBED. By Telegraph-Press Association-Copyrieht. (Received 12.30 a.m.) Reuter. DUBLIN, April 20. A raid was made on p"lice barracks at the village of Rush, 15 miles from Dublin. Telegraphic communication was cut, and the connection between Dublin and the north of Ireland seriously hampered. Information regarding the raid is sparse. It is reported that the roof of the barracks was blown off, and that tho sergeant commanding the defenders was fatally injured. 'Die Bantry mail train was held up at Kinsale Junction by a party of armed and masked men. Two mail bags were extracted. The roads converging on the i junction were strongly guarded. This is tho third time a train has been robbed.

SINN FEIN PRISONERS. NO YIELDING TO THREATS. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Reed. 12.30 a.m.) LONDON, April 29. Mr. E. Shortt, Home Secretary, replying to questions regarding Ireland, declared that the Government would not yield to the threats of a dockers' strike at Liverpool and Glasgow unless Sinn Fein prisoners were released. The movement was not a trades unionist one, but was engineered by local Sinn Foiners. SCENES OUTSIDE PRISON. HOSTILE FACTIONS CLASH. A. and N.Z. LONDON, April 29. Disorderly scenes continued at Wormwood Scrubbs prison yesterday. Over a thousand Irish sympathisers marched to the prison in military formation and formed a cordon around tho gaol, women accompanying them in strong force. Anti-Sinn Feiners attacked the cordon with stones and clods of grass. During free fights six were injured. The Sinn Feiners threaten that to-morrow their i opponents will see that Irish boys can fight. SINN FEIN "POLICE." BANK FUNDS RECOVERED. Tim., LONDON. April 29. Freeman's Journal report* a remarkable seouel to the raid on tho village of Millsstreet, County Cork, on Monday, when 200 raiders, described as Sinn Feir " guardsmen," carried off six men. suspected as being implicated in a recent bank robbery, when £18,000 was stolen. A large portion of the money will now be returned to the banks from which it was stolen. Tlie captors also offered to hand over the thieves, and to furnish evidence, but the banks replied that they were only able to deal with the Crown in such affairs.