SINN FEIN.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 16452, 14 June 1921, Page 4

SINN FEIN.

MURDERS AND FIRES, By Telegraph— Press Association—Copyright. Australian and N.Z. Cable. Association LONDON, June 13. Irish rebels indulged in an orgy of death and destruction during the week end. David Fitzgibbon was-murdered at Liscarroll, County Cork. Two ex-ser-vice men were murdered in Dublin. The Woodpnrk mansion at Scan*iff. Connie C lare, was destroyed by lire. The dam age is estimated at £IOO,OOO. Two oilw residences and a workhouse were destroyed in the same vicinity. Four coastguard stations also were burned. DONEGAL ISOLATED. LONDON, June 13. Three out of the four State railways in Donegal have been closed by Sinn Feiners, who also stopped motor transport by stealing and destroying cars. The authorities" have suspended the steamer service between Londonderry and Donegal ports, substituting railways, saying that if the rebels do not want railways they do not want steamers either. Telegraph and telephone communications are nearly wiped out, and rebel portions, of the country are completely isolated.