IRISH ANARCHY.

Taranaki Daily News, 14 June 1921, Page 5

IRISH ANARCHY.

WEEK-END OF TERROR. murders and fires. BEBELS CLOSE RAILWAYS, Bi Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. Received June 13, 7.40 p.m. London, June 13. Irish rebels inddlged in an orgy of death and destruction during the weekend. David Fitzgibbon was murdered at LiscarrolL County Cork. Two ex-ser-vics men were murdered in Dublin. Woodpark Mansion, at Scariff, County Care, was destroyed by fire, and the damage is estimated at £lOO,OOO. Two other residences and a workhouse were destroyed in the same vicinity, while four coastguard stations were also burned. Three out of the four State railways in Donegal were closed by Sinn Feiners, who also stopped motor transport by stealing and destroying cars. The authorities suspended the steamer service between Londonderry and Donegal ports, substituting the railways, saying: *Tf the rebels don’t want railways they don’t want steamers either/’ Telegraph and telephone communications are nearly wiped out. and the rebel portions of the county are completely isolated.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. THREE MEN’ MURDERED. RIOTING IN CORK. London, June 12. A patty of twelve men, masquerading. as soldiers, who said they were taking men to barracks for identification, captured Kerr, a barber, Mcßride, a publican, and Halfpenny, a poetman, took them from their homes in North Belfast, and shot them. The bodies were taken in motor cars and flung into the fields at the roadside. There was serious rioting in the Cork Street district of Betfast. The police were outnumbered. Aigny rioters were wounded by revolvers, some seriously. Police reinforcements ‘ended the trouble. Head Constable McElhill was murdered while going to mass at Kilbogan, Westmeath. The Russian delegation in London, on behalf of the Soviet Government, declares thgt the alleged treaty with Sinn Reiners is a pure invention. THE PARLIAMENTARY PROBLEM. London, June -12. The Daily Chronicle gives prominence to a proposal that the newly-elected membere of the Northern and Southern Parliaments should be permitted to meet under a truce to appoint delegates with «. view to an agreed settlement, including. if possible, full fiscal autonomy and control of the respective police forces. A pabty of men took out Dean Finlay, aged 80 years, who lived in retire nient at Dafionboy, Cavan, from, his home, murdered him, and then burnt his house to the ground.