SOUTH IRISH CAMPAIGN.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LVIII, Issue 17753, 12 April 1921, Page 5

SOUTH IRISH CAMPAIGN.

REBEL ORDNANCE SEIZED.

RAID ON DEPOT IN CORK. 4 O'CLOCK CURFEW IMPOSED. ' By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. (Received 11.30 p.m.) A - and NZ - LONDON, April 10. i The Cork police raided the Agricultural | Society's grounds and discovered ten lorry loads of booty, including a Lewis gun, a i motor-car, firearms, swords, uniforms, and 100 bicycles. Owing to outrages in Limerick, a 4 o'clock curfew has been imposed. Shops have been ordered to close at 2 o'clock. While rebels were demolishing a bridge near Skibbereen, Cork, a bomb exploded, killing one and seriously injuring four. PUNISHMENT FOR ARSON. PENAL SERVITUDE IMPOSED. A. and N.Z. LONDON. April 10. At the Liverpool Assizes the following sentences of penal servitude were imposed on five men who were found guilty of causing fires on farms in connection with the Sinn Fein arson campaign in England :—O'Malley, 10 years; Heyes, seven years; Meehan, a Lancashire man, O'Gorman and Pinkman, five years. A CARDINAL'S PLEA. ROUND TABLE TALK URGED. A. »nd N.Z. LONDON, April 10. Cardinal Bourne, Archbishop of Westminster, in an interview, advocated Dominion Home Rule for Ireland. At ; present suspicions between the two countries prevented a settlement, but protection of the Empire was as important for Ireland as for England, and as important for civilisation as for both. "Let ue get round a table and talk with one another," he added. "A discontented Ireland is valueless to the Empire, and an Empire without justice is i valueless to civilisation."