COWARDLY GRIME

New Zealand Times, Volume LI, Issue 11786, 24 March 1924, Page 7

COWARDLY GRIME

BRITISH SOLDIER KILLED MEN WITH MACHINE-GUN FIRE ON PEACEFUL PARTY. OUTRAGE IN IRELAND. By Telegraph.—Press Assn. —Copyright. Australian and N.Z Cable Association. LONDON, March 21. Four Free State soldiers turned a machine-gun on British soldiers at Queenstown. Twelve of the British were killed or injured.

SEVENTEENWOUNDED ATTACK WITHOUT WARNING. WARSHIPS FIRED AT. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Received March 23, 5.6 p.m.) LONDON, March 22. One. of the British soldiers wounded at Queenstown has succumbed. The War Office announced that one officer was seriously wounded, aiid that seven men were dangerously, six seriously, and three slightly wounded. Five civilians, of whom two aro women, were wounded. Details of the affair show that a large high-powered motor-car, containing four men dressed as Free State officers, drove to the pierhead at 7 o’clock in the evening, apd without warning the men opened fire with ma-chine-guns. A party of about 50 people, mostly British soldiers, had JWt fancied from Spike Island in a military launch. The men in the motor-car centred their attention on the soldiers, and then raced out of the town, firing as they went at the destroyer Scythe, but they failed to hit it. REWARD OF £IO,OOO. The Free State Government has offered a reward' of £IO,OOO for the capture of t]be men concerned in the outLiam Tobin (Chief of thia Free State Array mutineers) has Written to the Dublin papers disclaiming responsibility for the cowardly act. COSCRAVE’S MESSAGE “HORROR AND DETESTATION,’ ’ Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Received March 23, 5.5 p.m.) DUBLIN, March 2*2. President Cos grave has telegraphed to Mr Ramsay Macdonald expressing the Government’s hprror and detestation of the cowardly crime, and assuring him that no effort will be spared to bring the criminals to account. Free state patrols are scouring the | district for the perpetrators of the Outrage. FREE STATE ARMY THREE APPOINTMENTS. TO VACANT POSTS. (Sydney “Sun” Gable.) DUBLIN, March 21. Mr Kevin OJHiggins, Minister for Home Affairs, announced that General Mao Sweeney and Colonels Mao Neill and Clronan had been appointed Chief of Staff, AdjutanteGeneral, and Quarter-master-General respectively. RELEASED ON PAROLE EIGHT ARRESTED OFFICERS. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Received March 23, 5.5 p.m.) DUBLIN, March 22. The eight officers arrested during the raid on Devlin’s public house in Dublin last Tuesday have been released on parole.