IRELAND'S TURMOIL

Otago Daily Times, Issue 17974, 29 June 1920, Page 5

IRELAND'S TURMOIL

RAILWAY STRUGS BEGINS. FOOD SUPPLIES THREATENED. Prose Association—By 'ColegTaph—Copyright. LONDON, June 26. Trouble has arisen in the Irish railways owing to the guards and drivers refusing to carry soldiers. The strike is extending, and traffic on tho two main lines is practically 'suspended;. Railway difficulties in Ireland axe developing with alarming rapidity. Wide areas in the south are without, trains. Dublin ia threatened -with the cutting off of food supplies. ° The dismissal of railwayman for refusing to carry the police arid soldiers continues —A. and N.Z. Cable. LONDONDERRY AGAIN QUIET. LONDON, June 27. Londonderry was undisturbed throughSaturday. There wore no further arrivals of troops during the week-end It is reported that 20 Sinn Fein victims of the shooting were secretly buried. A and N.Z. Gable.

MILITARY OFFICERS CAPTURED

RAID ON POLICE BARRACKS.

LONDON, June 28. (Received June 28. at 5.5 p.m.) Disguised men raided a fishing hut at Castle Mowrrroche, Countv Cork, whero Brigadier-general Lucas and two colonels were sleeping after a day's sport. The raiders seized the sleepers in the ■ Tin.mo of the Irish Republic and a.lso seized a motor car, from which one colonel jumped in attempting to escape. He -was shot seriously, and tlie other colonel was permitted to attend to him. and he was then taken to Fermoy Hospital. The Sinn Femers departed -with Brigadier-general Lucas to an unknown destination. Between 200 and 3CO armed men attacked Borrisobane Barracks, near Nenagh, in the early hours of the morning. A sergeant and six constables stubbornly defended, and the firing lasted for three hours. The _ attackers threw sods of turf saturated with petrol, setting ffre to the barracks, and the roof of the building was shattered. The raiders departed at daybreak. It is believed that tliey suffered casualties.—A. and N.Z. Cable.