SINN FEIN OUTRAGES.

Pahiatua Herald, Volume XXV, Issue 2678, 14 January 1921, Page 5

SINN FEIN OUTRAGES.

A TRAIN WRECKED L POLICE LORRY BOMBED THE HOME RULE ACT. AMENDMENTS NECESSARY. Electrio Telegraph—Press Association Copyright. (Austraban-N.Z. Cable Association.) London, January 12. Sinn Feiners derailed a train in a wild Stretch of coutry iu West Donegal, by placing large boulders on the line. When the train left the rails, a hundred Siiiui Feiners lying in ambush filed, into it. The woodwork was riddled and the windows broken, lhe troops replied vigorously, anct the Sinn Feiners fled. It- is believed that several were wound'd, but there were no casualties to the troops. Three bombs were, flung at a police lorry passing Bachelor’s Walk, one of Dublin’s leading thoroughfares. T\vo exploded. The police immediately opened fire with rifles and revolvers. Apparently Sinn Feiners from a side street replied. There was’ a wild stampede of people in the streets nearby. Several women fainted. Ojae Sinn Eeiner was seen to fall, but his comrades carried him away. There were no police casualties.

Air Walsh, a member of the House of Commons, who escaped from the Mount joy prison, has been sentenced to five years -servitude.

The dent in a survey of the attitude of Ireland towards the Home Rule Act states that only an eleventh hour amending Bill can make it acceptable to, all sections of the Irish people. Otherwise in the opinion of both moderate and extreme Sinn Feiners it mil be impossible to arrest the drift towards anarchy and despair. Hardly inydnd «h)i(6ps Hafma.r Greenwood's optimism. Nobody but a few moderates and Unionists' are willin', to give the Act a trial. Current talk or peace and disarmament merely obscures the real issue. Moderate Sinn reinurs who otherwise are willinvr to come to reasonable, honourable terms fia ve made com mon cause wi tli the ox - tremists as they do not see m the Act any prospect of success Thev state that they are tired of the armslength sparring between the Premier and senn-offiriail and unofficial representatives of Sinn Fein, and now make the important suggestion that tho 1 roniior should issue a definite stn em<>r>;t of t.he fiscal asnd other concessions he is prepared to make These could then be submitted to a plebiscite of the Irish people. If accepted and incorporated into an Act tho measure would then, have every prospect of success.

The correspondent learned on o-ood authority that the Irish Labour Party which now wields an extremely pun erful i nfluence welcomes the idea It also believed that the polirica’ loaders are not opposed- to it Thero is no doubt that without amendment have littfe prospect of success.