IRELAND’S DARK DAYS

New Zealand Times, Volume XLVII, Issue 10838, 2 March 1921, Page 6

IRELAND’S DARK DAYS

MANY EXECUTIONS ECHO OF TERRIBLE SUNDAY IN DUBLIN. SERIES OF AMBUSHES. By Telegraph—Press Assn. —Copyrigt I Australian and N.Z. Cuba* Association. LONDON, February 28. Dublin reports state that a number of prisoners who were court-martialled in connection with the murders of officers and ex-officers at the Gresham Hotel and private houses on November 21st will be executed this week. LONDON, February 28. The six condemned men who were concerned in a recent ambush, were shot in Cork Barracks. They were shot, in batches of two, and as "the bodies fell the chaplains rushed forward and administered tho sacrament of Extreme Unction. (Received Maroh 1, 9 p.m) LONDON, March 1. The crowd outside the barracks at Cork during the executions recited prayers and then dispersed quietly, but tho city is excited. The tension, which inopoa*sed hourly, culuiiua'fced. at dark in a number of encounters between soldiers and civilians. Two soldiers were killed and six soldiers and several civilians wounded. , General Strickland has ordered all persons to bo indoors at 8 o’clock ui future. SOLDIERS ATTACKED. FIVE KILLED AND MANY WOUNDED. (Received March 1, 5.5 p.m.) LONDON, February 28. As the outcome of the Cork executions gunman attacked soldiers in the streets of Cork, killing five and wounding seven. A number of civilians were also wounded. It is reported in Cork that several persons recently disappeared. It 16 believed that they have been kidnapped and that their fate is depending on the fate of the six men executed. (Received March 1, 9 p.m.) LONDON, March 1. Official reports states that the soldiers murdered at Cork last night were unarmed. ANOTHER AMBUBH TWO CIVILIANS WOUNDED. LONDON, February 28. Fifty civilians ambushed .fifteen policemen, who were proceeding to the Mullingar Assizes. Shots were exchanged and two civilians were wounded. STUDENTS SEARCHED POLICE RAID A UNIVERSITY. LONDON, February 28. A large force of police and fnilitarv occupied the National University Buildings in Dublin. The lectures were suspended while the students were assembled and searched. GOVERNMENT’S POLICY NO INTENTION OF ALTERING IT. LONDON, February 28. Mr Lloyd George, in the House of Commons, stated that the Government did not intend to alter ite present policy of maintaining order in Ireland. Sir Hamar Greenwood would he allowed to oarry hie administration to a successful conclusion.