KIDNAPPED HOSTAGES.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 15748, 13 February 1922, Page 6

KIDNAPPED HOSTAGES.

DEMANDS OF THE ULSTER GOVERNMENT. Elec. Tel. Copyright—United Press Assn i (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.l (Received Feb. 13, 2.10 p.m.) LONDON, Feb. 12. The Ulster Government demanded that in the event of Die non-liberation of kidnapped persons, British troops should be given a free hand, and should garrison the border at the danger points, and threaten the organisation of obstruction in the House of Cofiimons and the House of Lords until loyalists are released and Mr. Lloyd George undertakes that the boundary will noi be altered without the consent of the Ulster Parliament. SINN FEIN OPERATIONS. 'Reuter’s Tele cram.) (Received Feb. 13, 2.10 p.m.) LONDON, Feb. 12. The Saekville street demonstration passed a resolution to uphold the Republic by every means, declaring the Dail Eireann incompetent to sanction the pretended treaty, which is null and void, and denouncing the proposed election, before being sanctioned by the Dail Eireann, as illegal, and that the attempt to disestablish the Republic was a betrayal of Ireland’s interests and not tolerable. SINN FEIN VERSION OF CLONES AFFRAY. /Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Received Feb. 13, 2.50 p.m.) LONDON, Feb. 12. The Sinn Fein version of the Clones station shooting states that the Republican army had occupied the station prior to the arrival of a Belfast train containing Ulster specials. The Republicans demanded that the specials surrender. The specials in the first carriage obeyed, but the others opened fire on the Republicans, killing the commandant. The Republicans returned the fire, killing four. The remaining specials were taken prisoners. AN ULSTER STATEMENT. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.' (Received Feb. 13, 3.5 p.m.) . LONDON, Feb. 12. The Ulster Government to-night, issued a statement declaring : “We have been in constant communication with the British Government during the weekend. We learn that Griffth sent emissaries to Monaghan with instructions to arrange for the release of the kidnapped loyalists. In case the negotiations with tlio British Government prove ineffective we suggest to the latter that Monaghan and other danger points beyond the Ulster boundary bo occupied by garrisons of British troops, with a free hand to take all the necessary steps to secure the loyalists’ release, and stop further border incursions, and prevent. a recurrence of the cowardly outrages like the Clones station affair.”