IRELAND.

Timaru Herald, Issue 170268, 13 July 1920, Page 7

IRELAND.

A CRITICAL DAY. j MILITARY IN BELFAST. I By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. ' Australian nod N-Z- Cablvi A.Ma. i Received 5.5 p.m., Julv 12th. !•■ . LONDON," July 12. I In v,ie,v of to-day's celebrations, Belfast and other towns are filled with troops. There is little likelihood of serious trouble. Effigies of Hi- de Valera were hung on many lamp posts. POLICEMEN SHOT. During a, tliree hours' attack on the .Rathmorc police barracks a bomb killed' Sergeant "Wynne. .Eight men attacked Sergeant Leery and Constable Barrow, after obtaining the mail at Ratliduff post office. Leery was struck by . four bullets and is in a critical condition. The assailants took official letters. Sergeant Mooney, returning tfrorrij Dunglow post office with letters, was critically wounded by l two Jiuudred pellets from a shot gun fired from a' vacant house. . CONNAUGHT RANGERS' MUTINY. SIMLA, July 11. Details of tho mutiny of the Connaught Rangers at> Jullundur prove that the action was due to incitement from Ireland. "When the demonstration began large Sinn Fein flags were hoisted on the barracks and the men wore Sinn Fein .rosettes- -and other emblems. It was specially significant that the vast majority of the 200 men who came out in the last drafts from England refused duty, and intimated that they would not allow themselves to be disarmed by Indian troops, but obeyed, the order to place tlieir arms and ammunition under guard. Within the past few days some of the arrested men have shown regret for their mutinous conduct. The ringleaders of the movement, will be tried. Disaffection has not spread to any cither Irish regiment in-India.