IRISH TERRORISTS

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 74, Issue 191, 14 August 1931, Page 7

IRISH TERRORISTS

AN ORANGE DEMONSTRATION | CATHOLICS FORCE ABANDONMENT f By Telegraph—Press Association—Vopy ight) BELFAST, Aug. 12. Republican terrorism frustrated the plans of the Orangemen of Cavan, Monaghan, to celebrate the relief of Derry. Tho situation was si ugly that Free State troops were called up by wireless. Catholic youths promptly tore up the tracks of the Great Northern Railway in order to prevent the special trains with Orange demonstrators reaching the mooting place at Cooto Hill. All of the roads converging on Coote Hill were blocked by huge trees and trenches hurriedly cut during the night. All of the Orange flags and emblems wore burnt and there was great alarm throughout a wide district. The Orangemen, not desirous of bloodshed, abandoned tho meetings. The Republican action is obviously a retort to the Police Bill, which substituted a special tribunal in place of juries, with the right to impose the death sentence. Large bodies of Catholic youths armed with hurley sticks marched on Cooto Hill. Others travelled in commandeered lorries and motor cars. Parties blew up a railway bridge and took up positions to prevent the Orangemen from coming in in thousands. At dawn, when the Civil Guards arrived, the Catholics bolted. A number have been arrested. THE LATEST REPORTS. Received Aug. 13. 11.20 p.m. LONDON, Aug. 13. The latest from Coote Hill states that troops are lining one side of the road and volunteers the other. Intense excitement prevails throughout Monaghan, Cavan and Tyrone, extending to Belfast.