MOMENTOUS ISSUES

Wanganui Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 160711, 26 July 1920, Page 5

MOMENTOUS ISSUES

CONFERENCE AT DOWNING STREET. LONDON", July 24. Mr Lloyd George presided at an important . conference at Downing Street yesterdlay regarding the Irish question. The conference lasted eight hours, when it adjourned till Monday. Sir Hamar Greenwood says that issues were decided involving' the welfare of millions and the prestige of the ration. SINN FEIN SNIPERS, LONDON, July 24. Occasional outbursts continue. It is estimated that fourteen were killed and 300 wounded, but the Sinn Feiners- are believwd to have taken away a number of their dead, so they are not included m the casualty list. Some of the Sinn Feiners' snipers, the accuracy of whose aim showed they were ex-soldiers, fired upon the troops from the housetops until volleys from the machine-guns dislodged them. Acting under Sir Edward Carson's orders. patrols belonging to the Unionist clubs and Orange lodges are assisting the authorities to preserve order. OTHER OUTRAGES. LONDON, July 24. A number of girls in Belfast held indignation meetings against the Sinn Fein outrages. The girls sang loyalist son 29 and passed a resolution that they would not work with Sinn Feiners. Returning from the funeral of Constable Carey, who was murdered in Tuam, masked men took the- hearse from the undertakers and burnt it. During the Coroner's inquiry into the death of two youths at Micheltown the evidence showed that the youths were joking with a party of girls when a military lorry with fifteen soldiers drove up and fired, killing two. The sersreant commanding the party said someone in the crowd fired at the lorry, whereupon the soldiers fired 119 rounds. Belfast shipyard workers threw a Sinn Feinev into the river. He was rescued and bent to hospital. A dozen armed disguised men dragged a Roscommon farmer from his bed, forced him to his knees in the roadway and compelled him, at the revolver's 'point, to promise to induce_ his son to retire from the police within a fortnight.