IRELAND'S TURMOIL

Otago Daily Times, Issue 18051, 27 September 1920, Page 5

IRELAND'S TURMOIL

AGITATION OVER MANNIX

STRONG INFLUENCES AT WORK

Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. _ LONDON, September 24. Conversations have taken place between representatives of the English Hierarchy and tho Chief Secretary of Ireland relativeto. tho prohibition "upon Dr Mannix landing in Ireland. It is understood that Sir Haniiir Greenwood agreed to arrange an interview with tho Prime Minister, but Dr Mannix caused tho breakdown of negotiations. Strong influences are at work to induce Dr Mannix to emerge from Ins retirement into the open.—A and N.Z. Cable. REPRISALS AT MILTOWN MALBAY. INHABITANTS TERROR-STRICKEN. LONDON, September 24. [Received Sept. 26, at 5.5 p.m.) Miltown Malbay (County Clare), which suffered from soldiers' reprisals, resembles a Belgian town after a German raid. Hundreds of women and children arc sleeping in the woods. The raiders had large supplies of patrol, and quickly ren dered the housos -uninhabitable, though the soldiers stationed in the town did their best to put out the flames. The inhabitants are terror-stricken, and scores are migrating with their household goods —A. and N.Z. Cable. • ALDERMAN M'SWINEY'S CONDITION. IS HE BEING- FED? LONDON, September 24. . (Received Sept. 26, at 5.5 p.m.) Alderman M'Swiney V condition is unchanged. Relatives deny that he is beinc fed.—A. and N.Z. Cable. M'SWINEY'S PRIVILEGES CURTAILED. LONDON, September 26. (Received Sept. 27, at 0.45 a.m.) The Sunday Express states that the Home Secretary has curtailed the privileges extended to Alderman M'Swiney's relatives. M'Swiney has been transferred to a room the door of which is locked, and only the prison doctors and nurses are aUowed to enter. No'one connected with M kwiney is allowed to approach the bedside. His relatives may speak to him through the bars of the door.—A. and N.Z. Cable. GENERAL STRICKLAND ATTACKED. ASSAILANTS BEATEN OFF. LONDON, September 25. (Received Sept. 26, at 5.5 p.m.) A party of men armed with revolvers waylaid General Strickland, commanding Cork Division, -while motoring in the neighbourhood of Cork. The car was struck by bullets and the driver was ■wounded. General Strickland returned the fire and wounded an assailant, whom his comrades earned off.—A. and N.Z. Cable. NEWSPAPEiTb-FFICES RAIDED. MRS MACCURTAIN'S LIFE ATTEMPTED. LONDON, September 25. (Received Sept. 26, at 11.5 p.m.) Armed uniformed men wrecked the residence of Mrs Mac Curtain, widow of the previous Lord Mayor of Cork, who was murdered in March. She reports that a shot was fired at her from the road while she was walking in the back garden. She was not injured. Five masked men stopped the machinery of the Dundalk Democrat, a Nationalist organ advocating constitutionalism. _ Uniformed men raided several buildings in Galway, and damaged the machinery of the Ualway Express. They raided the office of the Connaught Tribune, and arrested the editor. Fifteen uniformed men, calling themselves the "Black and Tans," raided a section of Athlone for arms.—A. and N.Z Cable.

DUBLIN POST OFFICE ROBBED # LONDON, September 26 (Received Sept. 27, at 0.45 a.m.) Two armed men bound the night porter at the Dublin Post Office and placed him m the cellar. They then blew up the safe and secured the pay of the postal staff and a large sum of money for the payment of old-age pensions, totalling several thousands.—Renter

SINN FEINER BEATEN.

FIGHT IN A PRIVATE HOUSE. /t, • , LONDON, September 26. (Received Sept. 27, a t 0.45 a.m,) Three armed police at Keadue, in Rosdragged Guignan, a Sinn Fein leader, from his bed, beating him severely and breaking his nose with a clubbed nile. A fierce fight followed, in which Gmgnan's father knocked down a poli ce . man with a pair of tongs and his mother floored another.-rA. and N.Z. Cable.

A RAILWAY SERVICE CEASES. Oying to the kidnapping and ill-treat-ment of loyal drivers and firemen, the Dandalk-EnruskiUen line has been closed 22 ssUsr are without mai]s - A: