NEW IRISH CAMPAIGN.

Pahiatua Herald, Volume XXVII, Issue 2945, 23 March 1922, Page 5

NEW IRISH CAMPAIGN.

LOYALISTS’ HOMES DESTROYED. MELANCHOLY SPECTACLE. Electric *l'cleirrawi —«.'««»> Association Copyright. (Australian-N.X. CuDle Association, j March 21. The Daily Telegraph’s Belfast correspondent states that a new campaign of flying columns of the Republican Army, against the loyalists in Tyrone, has aroused intense excitement in the North and terribl consequ - > may Peapio are asking whether Britain lias foe gotten that the Ulstermen are still subjects of the King. The farmers in. Tyrone are men of substance, but their well-kept farms now present a melacnholy spectacle of ruin and desolation. Incendiarism is so widespread that the Constabulary is quit » incapable of coping with the situation. It is pointed out that the British Government, thus far, has lent no aid or protection to the border, which* duty is left entirely to Ulster Specials. Protestant families in the danger zones are vacating their hopnes and «fecekiug shelter further north, or only visiting tlieir homes in the daytime to tend the stock. Tlie destruction of l«*ralists' homes in Tyrone is widespread and the sky is lurid with the glare ef burning homesteads. Some t*f the largest farms in t-be county have been fired. An aged man was shot while defending his home against incendiaries. who later burned the farm.

‘ MOST LAMENTABLE.” Loudon, March 21. Mr Churohil!, in the Commons, r**plying to a question, said the general condition of tlie Ulster boundary was one of the most serious tension. Liason officers on both sides were not functioning as they should, but overwhelming forces would be made avail able to the Northern Government if they were wanted for defence or the .maintenance of law and order. Conditions in Belfast were most lamentable. He had telegraphed to the Fro 3 State that there was no danger of a raid from Ulster in consequence of its campaign. SEVERAL AFFRAYS. London, March 20. The tension is most serious -near the Ulster Border, where there have been several affrays. Sinn Feinerr* seized thirty Ulster motor cars in County Donegal during the week-end and sent the' drivers or owners homo } telling then, not to come back. Armed bands of men of the Republican Army carried out a scries of outrages in County Londonderry early on Monday morning. They set fire to and dost roved extensive flour-mills ai Bally - arton, also sawmills, threshing-mills, barns and other buildings. The fire lit up the country for miles around. A’l the property, which was valued at £40.(X)0, belonged to the Ulster Constabulary. Several bridges were also blown up. Sinn Feiner* ambushed Robert Mullighan, an influential Orangeman, on the Monaghan frontier and shot him dead. Constable Stecnson. who was with Mullighan. was seriously wounded. The extremists fn the Soutl! have also been active. They kidnapped a number of prominent local supporters of the Treaty in Cork and removed them to an unknown destination.