ILLICIT STILLS.

Otago Witness, Issue 3467, 24 August 1920, Page 24

ILLICIT STILLS.

LONDON, August 15. The recent raids nvde on illicit stills in Ireland were preliminary to Sinn Fein control of the trade, following upon -a general cessation of the Government's attempts to suppress illicit manufacture. It is now reported that the Sinn Fein are issuing licenses for the manufacture of protein, thus providing a new source of revenue. SEDITION IN COEK. j LONDON, August 16. Alderman M'Sweeney, Lord Mayor of Cork, was court-martlalled, being: charged with making a seditious speech, and with having in his possession a police code, also documents the publication of which was calculated to cause disaffection. M'Sweeney, looking ill owing to his hunger strike, said: "I am Lord Mayor and Chief Magistrate. I declare this court illegal, and those participating in it are liable to arrest under the Irish Republican laws." M'Sweeney was' found guilty. Sentence was deferred. In the House of Commons Sir Hamar Greenwood (Chief Secretary for Ireland) stattd that the Lord Mayor- of Cork was being ct art-martialled on charges of being in possession of a secret police cipher code. CAMPAIGN OF OUTRAGES. LONDON, August 15. Republicans made an attack lasting three hoars on soldiers guarding military aeroplanes carrying, despatches which descended at Clbnbanin. County Cork, owing to engine trouble. The attackers were Beaten off. One soldier was killed and two wounded. Disturbances at Londonderry on Saturday night were quelled by the military, who charged with the bayonet. Outrages at Tralee include an attack on four police, in which two were wounded, the setting fire to wagons at the railway station containing military stores, and the setting fire to newspaper offices. The damage is estimated at £40,000. August 17. A motor car, returning home after a sports meeting at. Lurgan, was fired on at Banfoot Ferry. Two passengers were killed. Inspector Wilson, of the Irish Constabulary, was shot dead when leaving a shop in Templemore, Tipperary.