IRELAND.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 16638, 12 January 1920, Page 3

IRELAND.

.MORE OUTRAGES. ATTACKS ON MAIL CARS. By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright. (Received Jan. 12, 9.5 a.m.) LONDON, Jan. 9. The Dublin Court awarded £BSO compensation to the parents of Constable Dowling, who was shot in Dublin on October 19. Outrages continue in Ireland. A man wearing disguise held up a railway porter at a small station near Limerick and while covering him with a revolver ransacked a mailbag and decamped with all the valuables from the hag. . t Two masked cyclists robbed a- mail motor van near Mullingar. Several men attache'* a mail car in a roadway in Galway, knocked the driver senseless and searched the mailbags. Thieves again entered Northstand Post Office, Dublin, and secured £2OO. —Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. ATTACKS ON POLICE BARRACKS. GALLANT DEFENDERS. (Received Jan. 12, 1.55 p.m.) LOimiOn, dan. 10. A hundred Siuu Femens with revolvers and shot-guns attacked tne police ■ barracks at Castle Hackett, in County Galway, and wrecked it witn bombs, wounding a policeman wno was returning the fire from behind steel shutters. Another party of police came up and surprised the Sinn Feiners in the rear. The Sinn Feiners fled. In all these attacks on barracks the jolico have been outnumbered tenfold.— Aus.-N.Z.-Cable Assn. THE ANTI-PARTITION PARTY. OPPOSE HOME RULE PROPOSALS. (Received Jan. 12, 9.5 a.m.) LONDON, Jan. 8. The Times’ Dublin correspondent states that the Unionist Anti-Partition Party, headed by lord Midleton, rejected the Government Home Rule proposals, being convinced that if control of three-fourths of the country is em trusted to revolutionists the secession of the south provinces and the declaration of a. republic will immediately follow.— Times Service. ASSASSINS STILL AT WORK. LONDON, Jan. 8. An unknown person fired a revolver at Sir Alfred Dobbin, ex-High Sheriff of Cork, who will be remembered for the famous fight he put up against twelve of the Larkin Irish transporters in Dublin. Sir Alfred Dobbin had a very narrow escape, the bullet penetrating his clothing, being stopped by a button. His assailant escaped,—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.