IRISH TERRORS.

Taranaki Daily News, 28 September 1920, Page 5

IRISH TERRORS.

MURDER OF MORE POLICE, ■ IBSBOE BIGHTS IN BELFAST, Talepapb.—Preu Asjn. i -*Copyrlgtit. . Received Sept. 27, to p.m. „ ". , . , ' London, Sept. 26. sfina Fein is persisting in provoking Ulster by murdering police in Protectant 'towns, hoping to Ulster bf arousing reprisals. Krtrtly after the shipyard workers in the flwrlaM" and Wolfe works at Belfast rew their refusal to work with CaiiKilJce, Sinh Feiners shot four more policemen, killing one and seriously w'otmdlijg three. Fierce faction fights immediately recommenced. < -Three well-known Sina , were killed. It is alleged that t a jpafty pf five constabulary, armed with the -houses of two men *t night and- shot one dead, while the fitter-was killed in the street. The «ol|ce &e4' over- tbe heads of the .rioters itt' ordeSr' to- secure the dispersal of tfr awwds. - v Tbsettrfew, which had just been withaow been re-imposed, and .AttKHtqa can are patrolling Belfast. military inquiry into the death of Sjfoeir at the Royal Exchange Hotel, jMlin, rtsutted in a verdict that Lynch was shot by'a member of the Crown lofoes in the execution of his duty.— 04ble Assn. -'-i -: *, • "London, Sept.26. «Thepast/ week has keen a black one i« Ireland. About 20 people were killed attd four towns weie burned, causing damage estimated at £3OO/000. Many peopleaw homeless. ' 3m We «f a Secret Service man in Inland, one* he becomes known, Is not Worfb five minutes' purchase. That isvfaf antdsr inquiries are held in priwtfc.

POtICT OP REPRISALS. . A REMARKABLE STATEMENT. Received Sept.'£7, 725 pjn. \ - ; • London, Sept. 27. ' Tiw, f teaman's Journal prints a senssticoalinterview with General Sir Nevil pik&tt&y by the .American Reviewer.' o«Mr*l Macready denies that repris- &]*, tko 'MUMBinatSbas of police officm rtere actuated by a set policy of the QlfttaiMßfc If tile guerilla., warfare of tit Xriajki Bipnblican amy continued the situatta* might demand a policy of reprwals if policemen were mnfdercd,, but the machinery of the law had broken ' down. The constabulary feel that there .i*.SO Attain mease' of redress, and it /i» only human > that they should act on t&ejt' OWIJ. initiative. If the police were able' to deal with tlie situation there be so need for the military in MLttbd, -but the impassibility of reiawtwg for the constabulary made it to recruit in England the forces pf law *&d order. .TteDaily News says that unless this condonation of reprisals is disowned, General Macready will be re- . .'Vmi of fris post. ta to condonation of repriMUs IS contained in an interview •which an American journalist had with General Sir Nevil Macready, who is reported to have Baid that formerly .in ■lreland if "a policeman was killed there jwas no thought of reprisal in the minds of iihe Royal Irish Constabulary~thev (thought only of bribing tie murderer ■ ,ito jnatiee—but now that the machinery ;of the law had broken down they felt that was no certain means of reitets and punishment. It was only human that they should act on their own "jlniiiaihre. Punishment for 'such acts Vu & delicate matter, inasmuch as it \>o interpreted as setting at (Mght tiie hoped-for effect of the trainthe officers had given the men. CONSTABLES SHOT. London, Sept. 26, Constable Leonard wap shot dead at Belfast, *nd two other constables were grounded in connection with ■ renewed Falls Road. Three civilians in .other disti'-liances. i Ip many districts fierce tone throwing j tHwirred, and an attempt was made to • wait tke-public house at Old Lodge 'ppt I .."s£reaxfetr will be re-imposed- ■ Hie military raided Magherafelt '(Gotutty *Derry) «nd arrested Larkin, fcijiaifman of the Rnral District Council, , JgfK ctoirman of the Board of ifcantlana.—Ans.-N.Z. Cable Assn. DUBLIN POST OFFICE RIFLED. London, Sept. 26. Two armed men felled and bound the flight porter at a Dublin post office, Wpoed kim In a cellar, blew up the safe, &n4 second the pay of the postal staff • |usd A'large stun of money for the payknent of old-age pensions, totalling sev|ii( fhfluwtnds.-— Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. ; McSWEENEY'S TREATMENT. London, Sept. 26. ' sto Sunday Express states that the Ilopifr Secretary has curtailed the privilege! extended to McSweeney's relatives, McSweeney has been transferred far a room of which the door is locked, pud onljr prison doctors and nurses are tallowed to enter. No one connected ■ritto McSweeney ia allowed to approach |ii» bedside. His relatives may speak go Mm through the bus of the door Par-NX Cable Am. 1 " A fIEROE FIGHT. London, Sept. 28. ■Sjo*e iijned police at Keadue, Ros- ' taRBOBt dragged Guignan, a Sinn Fein Hfny from nis bed, beating him sevttrfy and. breaking iSs nose with a elubista. > A fierce fight followed. GuigMlfr fatter kaodced down a policeman ffttil fc psir of tongs, and his mother bond anotherAying to kidnapping and ill-treatment ■ bt Jiml drivels and firemen, the DsnUne has been closed. 6#rteti towns luce without mails. —Aus.ffX' Otble As9>.