IRISH CRISIS.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXVI, Issue 17968, 8 September 1920, Page 5

IRISH CRISIS.

THE STATE THAT SHE IS IN. Received Sept. 7, 7.30 p.m. DUBLIN, Sept. 6. Dublin Corporation has reduced the wages and salaries of their employees by twenty-live per cent, owing to the Government withholding grants to the extent of £200,000. Armed men at Strokestown, Roscommon, visited a house and look , a man from his bed into the road jin his nightgown and accused him of being a spy. They ordered him : to choose between death or leaving the district. The man chose to Heave and went away under the ■ supervision of his intimidators. • Another mysterious crime has ' been discovered owing to the washing ashore of a body near Clogue I lashed to the axletree of a cart bj' means of strong wire around the arms and legs. It is believed the man was a spy whom Sinn Feiners caught and tied to a cart wheel and then drove the cart over a cliff. A REASONABLE CONDITION. HUNGER-STRIKERS WILL BE RELEASED —IF? Received Sept. 7, 8.4 5 p.m. LONDON, Sept. 7. Mr. Lloyd George states if appeals for the release of McSwiney are accompanied by guarantees that murders will cease. McSwiney and other hunger-strikers will be released, but his unconditional release would have a disastrous result on the morale of the Irish police.