IRELANDS RED ROLL.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 15301, 24 August 1920, Page 5

IRELANDS RED ROLL.

MORE COWARDLY MURDERS.

i- (Received August 24; 5.40 A;ni;j v I LONDON, vAiigosfr 227 ' * ....-■ JJistnct Inspector SwanzVj recently , transferred from Cork;' Was . murdered while going home from churck aty__i^ • . "} } J n t^-day. Three mesn' armed with rifles shot Swahzy while -he was' walking . beside his mother and sister* m, street, . which was crowded 1 iwith- Worshippers. -The assailants entered' a" waiting taii-cab, firing at, but* not injuring Captain Woods, Commandant: of the local Ulster volunteers," whd; unarnfed, cat-* tempted to stop them. Subsequent rioting -m Lisburn resulted iii the Hibernian Hall and several shops being burned/-7 Sergeant Craddock, while patrollingat. Athlon©, .was shot dead. .'-' 'A The courthouse at Bantry was burned. Tho police had evacuated the adjoining barracks the previous day. •-"*'• f. Dr .Mamnix.vresppfiding to a; request sago to the>lrislr:j)ebpie;. in*ges themvtofrom the Freemim's Journal for a mesbe calm nmd..4U*m.. under the insult offered' to them* and to* him, Ireland, though suffering -much, he -said, cani afford to be patient. .Their 'caUse w-aa -alm'd&t '-■ won; 'The; rfeceait^Ehglfeat^nav^ victory" had added fuel to the flJune it meant to extinguish, yy Sergeant MataiSel. 'Was-i.shot dead '/&■ Macroom. •

Thirty Sinn Fein hunger-strikers -m , Cork gaol are m a weak condition, but ; the GJovernnient refuse <to release thelp>Two prison 'doctors haye ■ reoWVettafrttoi signed letter from the commander of the ■ -Cork Brigade: of 'the Irish J*%Hiblfcan , Ar'rhyj threatening them yrith death if j any hunger, striker , dies, but, pointing out # that ■ they , : ban • evade ■ r esponrability by immediately; resigning.-^-A. and' Nvfl. O.A. . v 7-* ■-.-. v v.- „- ...-• •..-.; ..-;:/■ ' (Received August 24, 9.50 a;ni;) .'. LONDON, August 23:? ' . Swanzy was &.- marked- man. He -'*$£' among those found' gmltiy of !.McCurtai^» -death ...by a fork-jury- dm April 17. Her was . tramsferred to Trisburn; which is a 'Unionist artisan town.* ! -^Excited crowds demanded vengeance •• for the murder. They searched several j houses believed; to--- contain Sinn. Foinera, They looted? a number of houses; ?' Tha fire brigade refused to extinguish fires.-r* A, and HxZS3Ac~:-r ■ ■■ - ' . '-- : (Received ' August 54, 10.5' a.m.Y ' / \ LONDON, August. S& -Assailants- fired on a police patrol . m Dundalk. ' A constable was killed and "two wounded. ""'■ 7- ■ '.„' ■ ! Ak- : 'Z .7 y.*7 In reprisal for tho murder of . Coin*! stable' Foley at Branmore, the polioeand aoldiers burhed thre6 "publle housei to the ground.-rA. and N.Z.C.A. v