DESPERATE IRISH SIEGE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LVII, Issue 17484, 31 May 1920, Page 5

DESPERATE IRISH SIEGE.

AITACK ON BARRACKS.

GALLANT POLICE DEFENCE. FOUR HUNDRED ASSAILANTS. I By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. (Received 5.30 p.m.) A. and N.Z. LONDON. May 29. A' desperate night attack was made on the Kilmallock police barracks, County Limerick, The tiny garrison held out lor five hours against 400 assailant* until the barracks caught fire and were burned to the ground. Two of the police defenders were burned to death. Another policeman was dangerously -wounded. It. I/i believed that two Sinn Feincrs were killed ard others wounded, but details are lacking;, as Kilmallock is isolated owing to the telephone and telegraph wires having been cut and railway lines torn up. Communication with Kilmallock has not yet been restored. Excitement in the district is intense. Other barracks' have been attacked and burned. All the members of the garrison at ■ Kilmaliock were wounded before the building was set on lire by throwing petrol on the' roof. A gruesome discovery was made at tho Limerick railway junction, a fireman find jog a human heart impaled on the engine of the mail train. It is oelieved that a gruesome joke was intended, as a search of the railway line has not revealed any evidence of an accident. The troopship Tsaritsa disembarked 1000 Cameron Highlanders at Queenstown.. The crew of the Government tug struck work, refusing' to discharge ammunition from the Tsaritsa. '

COST OF LAWLESSNESS.

CORK RATES ADVANCED. United Servjce. LONDON, May 38. Tho Cork Muncipal Council is confronted with new compensation claims as a sequel to recent police murders and incendiarism, involving £107,000, which will add 3s to rates. Additional claims, which would add fcs to the fates, are being ignored. AN APPEAL FROM ULSTER. PARTITION OPPOSED. Times. DUBLIN. May 28. The Ulster Unionist Council, at a special meeting under the presidency of Sir Edward Carson, passed a resolution pressing for the non-partition of Ulster. AMERICA'S OPINION. RESOLUTION IN CONGRESS. A. and N.Z. WASHINGTON, May 28. The Foreign Affairs Committee of the House of Representatives favourably reported on a resolution sympathising with Ireland's aspiration for a Government of its own choice. Action by the. House will be sought next week.