THE SINN FEINERS

Waihi Daily Telegraph, Volume XVIII, Issue 5964, 15 July 1920, Page 2

THE SINN FEINERS

POLICE PARTY AMBUSHED TWO KILLED—TWO WOUNDED. AMMUNITION CAPT URED. (Australian and N.Z. Cable.) (Received Juily 15, 8 a.m.) LONDON, July 13. An armed party ambushed a. police motor car between Oaghane and Dingle, ir. County Kerry, and shot dead two constables and seriously wounded a police inspector and the chauffeur The raiders stole the police arms and ammunition.

LETTERS FOR SINN FEINERS. SMUGGLED ACROSS ATLANTIC. INTERCEPTION IN ENGLAND. (Received July 15, 8 a.m.) LONDON, July 13. A man named Barry a fireman on an Atlantic liner, has been sentenced to two mouths’ imprisonment for bringing eight letters to England otherwise than through tiic post The prosecution said that Barry was in dose touch with the Irish revolutionaries in America, and that the correspondence included a letter from De Valera, denying that he was improperly spending Sinn Fein funds.

IRISH AFFAIRS. TRADE CONGRESS RESOLUTIONS. HOME RULE ON DOMINION LINES. (Received July 15, 8 a.m.) LONDON, July 14. Eight hundred delegates, representing five million members, attended a special Trades Union Congress to discuss the Irish question. A lively debate resulted in a proposal to immediately down tools to enforce the withdrawal of troops, the proposal being decisively defeated. A National Union of Railwayman's resolution was carried proposing a truce in Ireland on the Sinn Fein stopping murder arid outrage, and on the Government withdrawing the army of occupation. When the truce was scoured, an Irish Parliament to bo created, with full dominion powers. A mincis’ resolution, in favour of a strike ballot to (enforce the demands relating to Ireland and Russia was'carried. Asked as to what the voting implied, Mr Thomas, the chairman, cxr plained that if the Government refused to agree to the railwaymen’s resolution, then that of the miners would come into operation.