IRISH TROUBLES

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XLV, Issue 12042, 1 May 1920, Page 5

IRISH TROUBLES

more outrages.

United Press Association—By Elec* ! trie Telegraph—Copyright. Dublin, April 29 A raid was made on the police torracks at the village of Rush, fifteen miles from Dublin. Telephonic communication was cut between Dublin and the North of Ireland, which seriously Hampered information regarding the road. It is reported that the roof oi the barracks was blown off and a sergeant command{fig the defenders fatally injured. The Bantry mail train was held. up at Kiusale Junction by a party ol armed masked men. Two mail bags were extracted. Roads surrounding the junction were strongly guarded. This is the third time the tram has been robbed.

INTIMIDATION IGNORED

London.- April 30

Mr Shortt, replying to questions regarding Ireland, declared that the Government would not yield to the threais of a dockers' strike at Liverpool and Glasgow unless the binn Feiners were released. The movement wa=i not a trades unionist one, but was engineered by local binn Feiners

Recoived May 1, 10 a.m London, April 29

Four thousand Liverpool dockers struck to-day as a protest against the imprisonment of Sinn Feiners at Wormw od Scrubs. Work at the port is hardly affected. In a raid on the police barracks at Rush the sergeant in charge was seriously injured and later died. London, April 29 A hundred and fifty prisoners are hunger striking in Dublin Sir Nevil Macready, interviewed, indicated that the policy of silence had been abandoned. He himself was prepared to receive newspaper men anl explain all facts regarding the outrages in possession of the military. ,„. _ . ■ Another batch of Sinn Feiners have been brought to London. Soldiers escorted sixteen motor lorries to Wormwood Scrubs London, April rfO.

A large number of police at Wormwood Scrubs cleared away crowds of Sinn Feinerg and their opponents by nightfall before free fights became serious. , ~ . Three more hunger strikers have been sent to a nursing home. The Crimes Court at Mayo sentenced six men to a month's imprisonment for coercing a farmer to surrender land under threat of death.