CAMPAIGN OF MURDER

Wanganui Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 160813, 22 November 1920, Page 5

CAMPAIGN OF MURDER

DOINGS IS DURIIX

ELEVEN OFFICERS SHOT DEAD

By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. Australian, and N,Z. Cable, Association. Received November 22, 9.50, a.m. LONDON, Nov. 21. ' Ten or twelve officers oi% ex-officers living out of barracks, were shot dead in Dublin this morning. Two were killed at Gresham Hotel, Captain Newberry was shot dead at his residence. Lower Bagot Street, three were shot in Morehampton Road. Later, advices state that .eleven were killed, including Captains McLean, FitzGerald, and McCormick, and five wounded, including civilians. . , " The fact that the police and military have begun raids throughout Dublin, and are holding up motor cars and motor cyclists, causes grave fears that this morning’s murders will proVoke serious reprisals to-night. - The Galway County Council's resolution against the Bail Eireann instructed the gate collector to place all moneys to the credit of a legally appointed treasurer in the National Bank.

MILITARY RAIDS

A FIERCE BATTLE.

Received Nov. 22, 9.50 a.m. 'LONDON, Nov. 21. /

The authorities state that raids in Dublin began on Saturday with visits to one or two - factories, leading up ,to several arrests, •

Republican volunteers, operating on the .southern side of the city, fiercely attacked the “black and tans” this morning. The victims of the Morehampton Road shooting were suspected of being secret service men, and were Silled in their beds.

While shooting was in progress in Mount Street, where two ex-officers were killed, a lorry load of Tblack*and tans” who were passing heard cries fon help. A fierce battle with Republican volunteers followed, two “black, and tans” being killed and several volunteers wounded.

MACHINE GUNS USED

FOOTBALL CROWD STAMPEDED.

SEVERAL KILLED, HUNDREDS WOUNDED.

Received Nov. 22, 12.20>p.m. LONDON, Nov. ,21.

At a Gaelic football match in Dublin six thousand spectators were present, when armed forces with armoured cars and machine 'guns entered the field, firing ‘in all directions. Several persons were shot dead and hundreds wounded during the stampede that followed. Received—Nov. 22, 12.15 a.m. LONDON, Nov. 21. The Gaelic football match jk&s being played at Crake park, Dublin, when armed forces with armoured cars and mounted machine guns entered. The crowd tried to escape, but becajne panic stricken ias shots were being fired in all directions. The are full of wounded.'

The body of Father Griffin was found in a cavity on the mountain side near Galway. There was a bullet mark on the left temple. Father Griffin, although a Sinn Feiner, strongly denounced Sinn Fein methods in his sermons. v.

FATHER GRIFFIN’S BODY FOUND.

Received Nov. 22, 12.20 p.m. LONDON, Nov. 21

The body of Father Griffin, concerning whom a question was asked in the House of Commons on Friday, has been recovered.

DISAPPEARED,

COMMANDER OF REPUBLICANS.

Received November 22, 10.5 a.m. LONDON, Nov. 21

Michael Collins, commander-in-chief of the Irish Republican Army, has disappeared. It is rumoured he has been the victim of reprisals. \'