IRISH TURMOIL.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 16840, 11 September 1920, Page 3

IRISH TURMOIL.

RECRUITS FOR POLICE. By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright. (Received Sept. 11/ 9 a.m.) LONDON, Sept. 10. Four hundred members of the Royal Irish Constabulary who were recruited in England have arrived in Dublin to assist the metropolitan police.—Aiis.N.Z. Cable Assn. AIM OF MURDER CAMPAIGN. LONDON, Sept. 9. The official organ of tne Irish Volunteers, captured at Cork, provides an illuminating insight into the uvovred purposes of the present Sinn Fein campaign of murders. The paper declares that to-day the fifSt lino of the enemy, and the chief instrument of executive power has broken down and ceased to be effecthe Irish Constabulary have been driven from their outposts, and nearly 500 of their strongholds have been evacuated and destroyed. They were forced to concentrate only in certain strong centres, where, in some parrs of the country, ' they w r ere in the position of a beleagurod garrison. They were no longer effective for the purpose for which they were intended, namely, the maintenance of ordinary civilian law and order, upon which every civilisation depends. Reuter Service. SINN FEIN CARRYING ON. LONDON, Sept. 9. Four constables were ambushed at i Tnllow and two were killed. At the Galway railway station at midnight, Sinn Feiners shot dead Constable Krumrn, an- ex-soldier. In a desperate struggle Krumm killed three 'of his assailants and wounded others. ‘ . Subsequently the homes of civilian volunteers were raided. One man Was dragged from his bed and tied to a lamp post, where he received nine bullets andi died.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.