LAWLESS IRELAND.

Wanganui Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 160813, 22 November 1920, Page 3

LAWLESS IRELAND.

' KIDNAPPING OF FATHER ■ GRIFFIN. LONDON, Nov. 20.' In the House of Commons, Mr Devlin ask'ed for information regarding the alleged kidnapping of Father Griffin in Galway. -Sir Hamar Greenwood said ho refused to'•be-', lieve the military or police were responsible. It' appeared to Bq a case of local ] revenge, as Father Griffin’s extreme Sinn Feinism had raised enemies among local-,Nationalists. ■

MICROBE ‘MURDER PLOT.*

* LONDON, Fov. 20. The seizure, of papers regarding the microbe murder plot was made during thfe search of the bouse of Professor Hayes, at the University Dublin. The soldiers suddenly heard, an unknown man moving, whose presence in the house had been concealed. . The! man escaped in bis nightshirt, , dropping from', the window and climbing a wall ten, feet high. An attache case found in his * room showed that he was tie ‘ chief of. staff of the Republican' Army. A mUjtary cordon was immediately thrown 1 around the quarter, I ■*. but without result. Professor Hayes'was arrested.

HQLD-UPS IN DUBLIN. '

‘ LONDON, Nov. 20. _ A- number of hold-ups occurred in Dublin, including the theft of £IOOO from the Amiens street railway station, including old age pensions. John Kavanagh, a grocer’s assistant, was arrested at Lowestoft on a charge of murdering a policeman at Wexford. Two soldiers were killed ‘at Catloe while a military guard was being attacked. ; ■ •

THE IRISH LAND BILL,

„ , _ LONDON, Nov. 20., The Irish / Land Bill, which is ;of the Home Rule Bill, will’ practically abolish landlordism’. ]> It. does , not touch land purchased | under, previous Acts, building land, or ■ land not £2OO in value, ‘ which the owners reside upon or cultivate. The estimated total value of the land subject to compulsory purchase under the Bill is seventy millions. Landlords will be paid by five per cent, bonds, redeemable by periodical drawings. The Bill will not be ‘ proceeded with this session, and will pot be operative until thirty months after it is passed.

ANOTHER REPRISAL.

•’ LONDON, N0v.,20. A masked man shot and severely wounded Jeremiah O’Connell, a shoemaker-; in Cork, this being the sixth reprisal victim for the murder of O’Donoghue.

AN IMPORTANT REPUDIATION. LONDON, Nov. 20. The Galway Council has decided to repudiate the' Dail Eireann and to comply with the requirements of Government Board. The repudiation is regarded as foreshadowing the disruption of Sein Feinn influence.