IRELAND’S PROBLEM.

Waipawa Mail, Volume XXXVII, Issue 8360, 23 July 1920, Page 3

IRELAND’S PROBLEM.

" MURDER OF POLICE AT TUAM. LEADS TO A WILD NIGHT. (Electric Telegraph.—Copyright). LONDON, July 20. 5 Two constables motoring through I fuam from Galway Assizes discovered I the road blocked with trees. Both I alighted and immediately were shot I dead. Two other constables in a rear I car used firearms against the am-

bushed party of fifty men until their | ammunition was exhausted. They were eventually overpowered and I blindfolded. When news of the outrage spread I wild scenes occurred. Reports state that the police and military completely sacked Tuam, I fired shots into houses and shops, I set afire and demolished business premises, and gutted the Town Hall. I Rifle fire and the explosion of hand I grenades and bombs terrified the inI habitants, none of whom were inIjured. LONDON, July 21. I Sinn Fein murders of police total I fifty-two since the New Year. I When the bodies of the Tuam constables were brought into the barsacks rolled in white sheets, enraged constables apparently determined to give Sinn Feiners the fright of their | lives. The town was awakened at five o’clock with volleys of rifle shots and grenade explosions. Fifty to a hundred police went running amok' in the streets, crying: “Where are the damned Sinn Feiners?” and dragged youths from their beds, threatening to kill them as they had killed their comrades. Shots were fired above their heads. Houses of prominent Sinn Feiners

were burnt, also the Town Hall, where a Sinn Fein Court was held. I Women and children were terrified and huddled together in back gardens, I reciting l the Kosary. Police officers in Tuam assert that the men only got out of hand when the town folk begaii to fire upon them.—(A. & N.Z.) TROUBLE IN BELFAST. UNIONISTS (REFUSE TO WORK WITH SINN FEINERS. (Received This. Day, 9.55 a.m.) LONDON, July 21. There have been serious disturbances in the Belfast shipping yards. The unionist workers held meetings and resolved to boycott the Sinn Feiners and refuse to work with them. Free fights followed, and numbers of persons were thrown into the river and roughly handled. Some were sent to the hospital, though there were no serious eases. The troops were called out in the evening. Sinn Fein crowds sacked the spirit shops and the Belfast troops fired

over the heads of the crowd, which dispersed.—(A. & N.Z.)

THREE PERSONS KILLED. (Received This Day, 11.5 a.m.) LONDON, July 22. Three persons, including a woman, were killed in renewed rioting at Belfast. Thirty were sent to the hospital, and fifty-four were arrested. The troops now control Falls road and Sandy Row, the districts where spasmodic firing continues.—(A. & N.Z.)