IRISH CRISIS.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 16353, 16 February 1921, Page 4

IRISH CRISIS.

THE KERRY BLOCKADE. IMMINENT STAR NATION REPORTED. Bv Telegraph—Tress Association —Copyright. Austrah’an and X.Z. Cable Association. LONDON, February 14. In consequence of the blockade of western Kerry a slationmaster on the Tralee-Dingle line reports that supplies are. exhausted and women and children are on the verge, of starvation. Labour leaders in London have been urged to take immediate action for relief. (A cable message published on Saturday stated that a blockhouse system had been established over a wide area in Western Kerry and that a round-up in the mountains was proceeding.) SINN FEIN TERRORISM. EX-SERVICE MEN THREATENED. LONDON. February li. The Sinn Feiners have instituted a. campaign against ex-service men. They informed twenty-five of these men that if they persist in settling on land they will be tried by a Sinn Fein court, and shot. Land-owners offering estates to the Ex-Service Com mission have been similarly threatened. • THE MANCHESTER FIRES. INDIGNATION IN LANCASHIRE. OPERATIVES PROPOSE BOYCOTT OF IRISHMEN. LONDON. February 14. There is intense indignation n Lancashire against Sinn Feiners. The cotrrent to refuse to work with Irishmen. The country is being scoured for suspects in connection with the cases of arson, of whom the police have issued descriptions. Several Irishmen are in custody. The police believe that the plot was hatched in Ireland, and was not dtle to Liverpool-Trish Sinn Feiners. LTVER L OUTRA G ES. SEN TEXCKS lAI POSED - LONDON, February 14. As a result of their trial at Liverpool, Kerr and M’Caughey. labourers, were found guilty of conspiring to murder police and setting fire to warehouses and tiinber yards in Liverpool and Bootle on November 28. They were sentenced to ten years’ penal servitude. Fowler was found guiltv to conspiracy to five warehouses, and was sentenced to two years’ imprisonment.