IRELAND.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 17936, 15 May 1920, Page 9

IRELAND.

A CONCILIATORY POLICY. SIR HAMAR GREENWOOD'S EFFORTS. Press Association—By Tolcgriiph—Copyright. . LONDON, May 13. Sir ITamar Greenwood, Secretary •of State for Ireland, interviewed in Dublin, said : " Since my appointment I havo signed no deportation orders, and havo released many prisoners arrested on suspicion after personally' examining tho grounds on which that suspicion was based. I personally ordered Alderman O'Jfcien's release. These things show that I am carrying out my intention to try to establish normal life in Ireland, including normal proceedings in the Courts of .1 ustice. " I am expressing tho views of my countrymen and of the \yorld when I say that the gallant Irish police deserve tho admiration of all. The Government will not fail in its duty to them."—lmperial News Service. NEW SERIES OF OUTRAGES. DESTRUCTION OF POLICE BARRACKS. DUBLIN, May 13. A new series of outrages, apparently concerted, in many parts of Ireland, included, the destruction of tho police barracks at Ballyrock, Bossboroug'h, Killogrange, Carrickbeg, Carrigan, and # Camlongh. It is noteworthy that Bessborough is only halt a mile distant from the Vice-regal Lodge. Tho attackers cut the telegraphs, dislocating communication with Dublin and the provincial centres. Other parties burnt down the Bantry Customs Office. Armed and masked' men held up the Kilcommon-Nenagh mail, and seized the police correspondent. Another party seized and tarred Mr P. Sheehy, of Skibbereen, an editor.—Times. LONDON, May 13. (Received May 14, at 7.20 p.m.) The police barracks at Barrigard, in Donegal, and Kolleter, in Tyrone, wore destroyed. Masked raiders, w<ho held up the clerks in the Belfast Income Tax Office, destroyed a'l tho papers, but the fire brigade saved the building. Tho Customs office at Bantry was completely destroyed after the books and documents had been piled in a bonfire. Similar outrages were perpetrated at the Oldage Pensions Office at Newton Stewart, the Income Tax Office at Londonderry, and the Inland Revenue Office at Enniskillen. , Eight masked men raided the Downpatriclc Exciso Office and stole a quantity of documents. A clergyman living next door was shot in the thigh while assisting the caretakers.—A. and "N.Z. Cable. CAMPAIGN OF DESTRUCTION. LONDON, May 13. (Received May 14, at 7.55 p.m.) The Irish outrages include the burning of the police barracks in the suburbs of Cork. Explosives were used to complete the destruction. The Rev. Mr Wilkinson, canon of Down Cathedral, was the clergyman shot in the thigh in endeavouring to stop, a raid on the Downpatrick Excise Office. —A. and N.Z. Cable. RAID 'ON INCOME TAX OFFIQE. OFFICIAL DOCUMENTS DESTROYED. LONDON, May 13. The Income Tax Office, housed in the Scottish Provident Building, Belfast, was raided by masked men. The clerks were overpowered and bound. The raiders emptied the shelves and desks, and piled the income documents on the floor where they were saturated with petrol and set on fire. The raiders then decamped. No arrests were effected.—A. and N.Z. Cable. MURDER OF A BOY. LONDON, May 13. (Received May 14, at 11.40 p.m.) The Government has appointed a commtfssian of inquiry touching tlhe story told a.t a Belfast inquest a boy who was shot in a field. His father stated that he found tho boy lying beside two horses, which also had been shot dead. The boy said that neighbours, whose names ho would not disclose, committed the outrage. The fathor went to a neighbour's house and asked for water, which was refused. Two men in a field, when asked for assistance, turned their backs upon him, and others declined to fetch a priest. "Hie father later procured help, and carried the boy to a houses where he died. A verdict of murder by some persons unknown was returned.—A. and N.Z. Cable. GUERRILLA, WARFARE. LONDON, May 13. (Received May 14, at 11.40 p!m.) Yesterday's outbreak of guerrilla warfare in Mand recalls the Easter outrages. Bombs were used" in a numbef of cases. A. human hand was found near where one raid had taken place. It had apparently been accidentally blown off a Sinn Feiner. Most of the police barracks were unoccupied, and the destruction was quite wanton. The cost will fall on the local ratepayers, many of whom are Sinn Feiners. Where the barracks were cccn- ■ pied by sergeants their families were bundled out in the small hours of the morning by armed masked men. The children were terrified to see their homes burning. Lord Birkenhead, speaking to press representatives, said that the Government had just taken special and wholly exceptional steps to reinforce the Irish Constabulary Force, whose morale never faltered. The men who had already fought for the Empire were now going to devote themselves to the task of determining whether the murderers in Ireland were strong enough to destroy the Empire—A. and N.Z. Cable. POLICE DOCUMENTS STOLEN. LONDON, May 13. (Received May 14, at 8.45 p.m.) Masked men captured the mail between Nenagh and Thurles, seizing a number of police documents. A mail train was raided ait Midleton and the constabulary mail captured —A and N.Z. Cable. PROTECTION FOR POLICEMEN. LONDON, May 14. (Received Ma,y 15, at 0.15 a.m.) It is understood that the Government has decided upon a military guard of one or two soldiers for every, tiolioeman, in order to end the campaign of anarchv and murder in Ireland.—A. and N.Z. Cable.