IRISH AFFAIRS.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XLIV, Issue 14702, 1 June 1920, Page 1

IRISH AFFAIRS.

I NO TRANSPORT FOR MILITARY - [ . SUPPLIES. I Ht EijßCjtiiio telegraph -Copyright. 1 i (Per Press Association.) ! (A. and N.Z. Cable Assn.) i Received May 31, at 7.40 p.m. Armed men entered the town of Louth, near Dundalk, in Ireland, while the residents were at church. They destroyed the police station and churcli.liouse. When the residents came out of church they were compelled to fetch and carry for the burning barracks, which ignited and destroyed a row of houses. The jurors summoned for the inquests on the Killmallock victims absented, themselves through fear of tion, -'-= • Michael Toole, a farm hand, refused to quit the service of an obnoxious farmer at Bally glass, County Majo He was waylaid by unrecognisable persons and beaten to death Received Mar 31, 7.40 p.m. - LONDON Mav 31 The arising out of the transport workers' refusal to move soldiers or military /stores is becoming serious. The drivers in the south have refused to di'ive the troop trains for the troops who are arriving in considerable numbers at Queenstown. The. position is considered disquieting. - The. Daily Chronicle states that an important meeting of the Cabinet has been. summoned for to-dav to discus? the situation in Ireland. Viscount French, Sir Hamar Greenwood, and Sir Nevil Mac-ready will attend. : Cabinet will, if necessary, provide the; means for moving troops and supplies. It is estimated that, there are now 50,000 troops in Ireland. Several other battalions have been ordered to proceed from England. - The Chronicle says, editorially: "It is high time the Sinn Fein corispirators were frankly treated as rebels." !