Irish Rebellion

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 24, 15 December 1919, Page 5

Irish Rebellion

RAIDS ,OH SINN FEINERS.

ASTONISHING INCIDENTS.

Press Association— Copynght, Austin* ,lian and N.Z. Cable Association. :... ■ i ... Dublin, December 13.

The police raided the houses of all leading Sinn Fenners, including Count Plunkett, Arthur Tom Kelly, M.P., and Mjps: 'J,hpmas Clarke, whose husband was, executed in 1916, but the Sinn Ftjiners were not at home. They evidently had a hint to expect the police, so. what arrests were made were unimportant.

(An. armed vessel lias nrrtV6{l at Kingstown, and has embarked ft number of Sinn Fein prisoners. Strong military precautions were taken, and troops, in full marching order, guarded the dock. The prisoners arrived in mo. tor lorries, guarded by tanks and armored motor cars.- The vessel soon after wards,,depart eel, it<- is understood for England,, < The prisoners ' came from other parts of Ireland than, Dublin, where a round-up occurred later. A message from Dublin states that a hundred policemen and five hundred soldiers; Tvearirig, steel helmets, took part in a raid’on the Mansion House. The soldiers,'Who arrived in lorries, had thfiiri bayonet# fixed, and even carried Lewis' i guns.’ l ■ 'Soldiers formed a cordon Aound dtHfc ’Mansion House, while ytSie police searched the rooms.

PARTICULARS OF RECENT AT. TACK ON SPORTSMEN.

re»» Association—Copyright, Austra, lian and N.ZI ; Ca ble Association. (Received 9.55 a.m.) London, December 15.

A rearkable outrage is reported from' '(poiintjj Glafei Lord Inchiquin’g bro‘lier, jßffward' O.’Brien, with 1 ’Lady Hoatruje l O’Brien- 1 arid, three YriintA, were shboting ‘ ; wp6dc6tk ! ih' * Irid-hiquiri’ gi grounds, Wheii' ’fiiW'on ithe party, with Revolvers' arid spoftipjg guns. A 1 *, followed, O’Brien’s [ party retreating to their motors; and' firing continually, until twenty attackers were put ‘to flight. Lady Bea’rice had three gun-shots wounds im the head and' neck, and all the other sportsmen were more or less seriously wounded. The Sinn Feinerg carried off their own wounded, whose number is un-. ' known.? i.ii-ui* .'J-.n i*