IRELAND.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXVI, Issue 18162, 26 April 1921, Page 5

IRELAND.

MORE ATTACKS AND MURDERS. Received April 25, 5.5 p.m. LONDON, April 24. • Sinn Feiners at midnight made a futile attack on Kilrush police barracks and coastguard station. The military counter-attacked. A sergeant was wounded. The rebel casualties are unknown. PoliceSergeant McFadden was killed and a private of the Royal Scots and two marines were captured. The lastnamed were released, while a soldier who was wounded escaped. Auxiliary police were sent to Maam. Connemara, to raid the house of Patrick O’Mailiie, Sinn Fein member of the House of Commons, who has been on the run for 2 J years. Ambushers with a machine-gun killed a constable and wounded two others. They then decamped. The auxiliaries burned the house. MURDER IN CENTRE OF BELFAST Received April 25. 5.5 p.m. LONDON, April 24. One English cadet was murdered and one cadet and two civilians wounded last night at Donegal Place, a busy thoroughfare in the centre of Belfast. The police pursued, but the murderers escaped in the darkness. Later, two brothers who were Sinn Feiners were shot dead. SOVIET AND SINN FEIN. Received April 25, 7.30 p.m. LONDON, April 24. Replying to a question, the Attor-ney-General for Ireland stated that he would shortly publish evidence showing the connection between the Soviet Government and the Sinn Fein movement.