RAIDS IN ULSTER.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 18046, 22 March 1922, Page 7

RAIDS IN ULSTER.

W0 : { ti'jKOPERTY SET 0N HBE. POLICE BARRACKS CAPTURED '31 AFFRAYS on frontier, ORANGEMAN SHOT DEAD, jjy Telesrach —Press Association—Copyright. N Z. LONDON. March 20. Most serious tension continues near the Ulster border, where several affrays have ; occurred. Armed Sinn Feiners seized 50 / Ulster motor cars in County Donegal during the week end. and sent the drivers and owners home, telling them not to come back. Two armed band; of the Irish republican a™>' carried out a series of outrages in County Londonderry early on Monday morning. They set fire to and destroyed extensive flour mills in Ballyarton, also sawmill?., threshing mills, a barn stocked with corn, and other buildings. The conflagration lit up the country for miles jound. All the property, which was valued at .£40.000, belonged to members of (he Ulster Constabulary. Several bridges were also blown up. Sinn Feiners ambushed Robert Mulligan, an influential Orangeman, on the Monaghan frontier, and shot him dead. Constable Steenson, who was with Mulli ban. was seriously wounded. Over 200 members of the Irish republican army surrounded Maghera. in County Londonderry, cut off the lights, and ■ ordered the inhabitants indoor.-. They i then captured the barracks. The raiders retired to the Sperrin mountains, which are ali v c with republicans. Ulster special polico in force are trying to round them op. j During f he raid Constable Fitzpatrick was shot dead. Bridges were blown up and roads trenched to prevent pursuit. Twenty-five republican prisoners in I-ion-donderry prison, who are undergoing long terms of penal servitude in connect-on with the recent border raids and kidnap ping, have commenced a hunger fI l ike as a protest against denial of the treatment hitherto accorded political prisoners.

ASSASSINS IN BELFAST. WOMAN MURDERED IN HOME. I and N. 7. LONDON. March 21. "The murd»r campaign in Belfast, continues unchecked. Hills, an employee of the Corporation. v:;is shot in the face in Templemorc Street, and died a few hours later. ■Siitit Ktliters also made a murderous atta k on three loyalist carters, who took to flight. Only one was seriously wounded- Aimed men, who broke into her house, murdered Mrs. Murphy, a Protestant who married a Roman Catholic. EXTREMISTS IN SOUTH. TREATY SUPPORTERS SEIZED. 'I. and N.Z. LONDON, Inarch 21. Extremists in the South of Ireland are active. They kidnapped a number of prominent local supporters of the Irish Treaty in Cork, and removed them to an nnknown destination.