IRISH DISORDER

New Zealand Times, Volume XLVI, Issue 10536, 12 March 1920, Page 5

IRISH DISORDER

FURTHER OUTRAGE SENSATIONAL ATTACK ON POLICE BARRACKS. CONSTABLE KILLED. Bv Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright Australian and- N.Z. Cable Association(Received March 11, 8.45 p.ni.) LONDON, March 10. A large force of armed and masked men attacked and captured the police barracks at Hugginstown, after cutting tho communications. Five police occupied the barracks; also a constable's wife and five small children. The attackers, beginning at 11.3(1 o’clock at night, maintained a rapid fire with rifles, revolvers, and many grenades for ninety minutes. Constable Ryan was wounded by a grenade, and died from loss of blood. Another grenade wounded the woman and three children. The assailants escaped after seizing the police weapons. DARING ROBBERY. Published in “Tho Times.” (Received March 11, 9.30 p.m.) LONDON, March 9. Four masked and armed men held up the manager of the Ulster Bank in Athbay road, Clonallo, and took his motor-car and £IOOO. MASKED MEN ENTER HOSPITAL. MONEYMAKERS FROM LONDON. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Received March 11, 5.5 p.m.) LONDON. March 7. Four masked armed men entered a hospital at Cork, held up the staff, and divested them of their watches and jewels, saying: “We are from London, and have come to Ireland to make money.” (Received March 11, 5.5 p.m.) LONDON, March 9. The “Daily Graphic” states that Sinn Feiners, by their capture of mails on March 3rd. secured valuable State documents of the most important effect in regard to America. INCITING TO MURDER. WELL-KNOWN EDITOR GAOLED. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Received March 11, 5.5 p.m.) LONDON, March 9■Mr Charles Diamond, editor of tho Loudon “Catholic Herald,” . was sentenced at Old Bailey to six months’ imprisonment for an article inciting to murder Lord French, and others responsible for the government of Ireland. Under tho guise of argument, he stated that if any oppressed nation is goaded into killing it is no murder. Air Charles Diamond is a well-known editor and newspaper proprietor, and has established thirty-five weekly papers in the chief towns of Great Britain. HOME RULE BILL ULSTER NOT IRRECONCILABLE. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Received March H, 7.35 p.m.) LONDON, March 6. A record gathering of the Ulster Unionist Council at Belfast considered tho Home Rule Bill, afid adjourned after Sir Edward Carson had explained tho measure.. The speech was not published, but, speaking later, Sir Edward Carson showed that Ulster waa not irreconcilable. He said that if their opponents were going to work a Parliament in West and South Ireland for the benefit of all_ classes and creeds, Ulster Unionists would be the first to shake hands and say as* brother Irishmen, “We wish you luck.” NEW LAND BILL. Reuter’s Telegram. . (Received Alanoh 11, 7.35 p.m.) LONDON, March 6. The “Scotsman”,;' forecasts a new Irish Land Bill, generously planned, and completing thevlong-delayed purchase scheme.

ULSTER. COUNCIL'S DECISION. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Received March 11, 10.10 p.m.) LONDON, March 10. The Ulster Unionist Council at Belfast rejected the proposal that Donegal, Monaghan, and Cavan should be included in the Homo Rule Bill favouring the exclusion of six counties, while it considered union with Britain the. best system, the Government could not assume responsibility for attempting to defeat the bill. PARTITIONS UNDESIRABLE. ACTION OF DUBLIN UNIONIST. United Service Telegram. . (Received March 11, 9.30 p.m.) LONDON, March 9. Sir M. Doekrell, a member of the House of Commons, the only Unionist outside Ulster, and a popular business magnate in Dublin," has notified a mo‘■lon to reject the Ho.no Rule Bill on the ground that pai-itions of Ireland into factions invalidates the co-opcra-t.ion of the best elements and divorces the Protestants in the south and north, while the Catholics suffer similarly. ULSTER AGREES. TO SIX COUNTY PROPOSAL. (Received- March 12. 12.20 a.m.) LONDON. March 10. The Ulster Unionist Council, it is understood, agrees to accept: tho sis county proposal. There is much excitement. “Freeman’s Journal” says that large forces of troops have been entrained for the south-west.