IRISH TROUBLES.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XLV, Issue 12084, 22 June 1920, Page 5

IRISH TROUBLES.

United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copryigbt. LONDON, June 20. Mr J. H. Thomas, secretary of the Eailwavmon's Society, in a speech said that the Irish railwaymen who interviewed the Premier had decided that Avhatcvcr the consequences would foe, they would not give way. If Ireland were running- in blood next week, and if the military succeeded in exterminating the railway men, there would still remain the Irish problem to solve. He asked the Irish workers to realise the consequences of starting a light against the machine gnus of the military. The trade unionists and Government 3iad national obligations. Two hundred Sinn Feiners made a desperate night attack on the barracks at Farran, 14 miles from Cork. Using- gelignite, they blew up a corner of the barracks, and followed this up with a fusillade of revolver and rifle shots. The garrison pluckily held out until reinforcements arrived and put the attackers to flight. The Sinn Feiners abandoned three motor cars, and the barracks were wrecked.