IRELAND.

Western Star, 10 February 1922, Page 3

IRELAND.

TERRORISM IN TYRONE AND

FERMANAGH

EphEVEN RAIDERS CAPTURED!.

LONDON, February 8. Organised attacks on leading Unionists in 'Tyrone and Fermanagh were carried out over a wide area this morning. ■' ■■ Mr Montray, Grand! Master of he Tyrone 1 Orangemen, was kidnappetl while in his housb. ' Mr Carson, ex-Sheriif of Fermanagh, was attacked. A gallant defence was put up, hut eventually Mr Carson was wounded and carried off. Armed), bands attacked the residences of Mr Cooper, an Ulster M.P., and a prominent resident of Inmskillen. The residents returned the fire, and the police arriving captured eleven raiders and three motor cars laden with Tifles, revolvers and bombs. Another motor car was held up near Inniskillen. and . the occupant was found wounded. t Most of the capturedl men came from Longford/ One was wearing the republican army uniform. Mobile platoons arc; scouring the country hunting for the raiders. The republican army has handed over Halinan’s mills to the owners. During the employees’ control £7OO worth of goods were sold, for which the owners are claiming an indemnity from the' Provisional Government.

RAIDS ELABORATELY PLANNED.

WHOLESALE REPRISALS FEARED

, LONDON, February' 8 Ulster is in* a state of excitement over tie raids, which extended lor 40 mules. As all telegraph wires had been previously cut, the raiders were able to carry out, their operations without interruption for along time. There are the gravest' team m ~ Ulster of reprisals on a wholesale s® 3 !®* 1 , i ” The affrays began by a large party of well-armed -republicans crossing ■ from Monaghan. with the purpose of seizing Ulster special' police as a reprisal Tor the arrest at Dromore several weeks ago of eleven members o the Monaghan Gaelic football team floing to Derry to play a match. ' Fighting commenced when the hand of. republicans met a tender containing Ulster specials, whom they called upon to,halt. They did so, but opened fire, which whs returned, a special being wounded. , Mr Cooper and his friend Mr Elliott put up a most vigorous fight and put the raiders to flight. '-Their pluck was the chief, cause of the police capturing eleven raiuers. ' Sir Jcsslyn BooLh, who was captured, is the father of Counteiss Markievicz, the Sinn Feiner, though lie himself is a Unionist. There were similar raids n Donegal, where the Sinn Feiners kidnapped Major Miles, the holder of the Military Cross. When the Ulster specials heard at the outrages they gent motor cars and lorries in all directions to- cut off the raiders as they returned across the frontier. A party of six men |at Belcoe, Fer- , managh, pluckily stopped four motor cars filled with armed men who fired on the police. The latter returned the fire, badly founding a raider. Farmers in Clogher Valley are arming and ' mobilising to protect theiir lives and property. A telegram states that a large number of farnerrand their sons in Clogher have already been carried off. , , . ,Raiders shot and wounded Doooan, a Unionist registration agent, at In- • niskillefa. Bight special constables were kidnapped at Lisnaker and three police, at Rosier, and a number were .more .or less seriously wouudedl. Reports regarding the number kidnapped are confusing. Some allege that as many as a hundred have disappeared. The kidnapped loyalists total noarl} a hundred. The' Tyrone outrages >were of a particularly determined character. ' Strong bodies operated ever widely separated areas. Omd was directed against Mr Monti ay, Grand Master of the Tyrone Orangemeil, who is eighty years of age. He pht up a stout resistance though practically unaided. He was desperately wounded before he was cap- , tured. During the night bands of young men in motor cars kidnapped a nmnher of Sligo Ulstermen, including Sir Josslyn Booth- It is reported That those captured in Sligo have since been released. The Daily Chronicle urges that it cannot be supposed that Messrs Griffith and Collins approve of the- raidfl It is evident that local units b°" e got beyond control, T*° C y *have committed a crime against the lluitv of Ireland. The South can never conquer Ureter by force. The Daily Express says it cannot be expected that Ulster will take this lying down. The dread spectre of pivil wax may well reap^ear»