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WRECK OF A TOWN. WOMEN WITHOUT HOMES. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. Received Sept. 25, 5.5 p.m. London, Sept. 24. Miltown Malbay, in County Clare, which suffered from soldiers' reprisals, resembles a Belgian town after a German raid. Hundreds of women and children are sleeping in the woods. The raiders had large supplies of petrol, and they quickly rendered the houses uninhabitable, though the soldiers stationed in the town did their best to put out the flames.
The inhabitants continue to be ter-ror-stricken, and scores are migrating with their household goods. A GENERAL ATTACKED. WOUNDS ASSAILANT AND ESCAPES Received Sept. 26, 5.5 p.m. London, Sept. 25.. A party of men armed with revolvers waylaid General Strickland, commanding the Cork division, while motoring in the neighborhood of Cork. The car was struck by bullets and the driver was wounded. General Strickland returned the fire, and wounded one assailant, whom his comrades carried off.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn'. RAIDS ON NEWSPAPERS. MADE BY UNIFORMED MEN. Received Sept. 2G, 11.5 p.m. London, Sept. 25.
Armed and uniformed men wrecked the residence of Mrs. Mac Curtain, widow of the previous Lord Mayor of Cork, who was murdered in March. She reports that a shot was fired at her from the Toad while she was walking in her back garden.' She was not injured. Five masked men stopped the machinery of the Dundalk Democrat, a Nationalist organ advocating constitutionalism. Uniformed men raided severil buildings in Galway, and damaged the machinery of the Galway Express. They raided the office of the Connaught Tribune and arrested the editor. Fifteen uniformed men, calling themselves "the black and tans," raided a section of Athlone for arms.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. [ THE HUNGER-STRIKER. McSWINEY'S CONDITION UNCHANGED. Received Sept. 25, 5.5 p.m. London, Sept. 24. The condition of McSwiney, the Lord Mayor of Cork, who is hunger-striking, is unchanged. His relatives deny, that he is being fed.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.
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Taranaki Daily News, 27 September 1920, Page 5
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