SITUATION IN IRELAND

Waikato Times, Volume 94, Issue 14585, 7 February 1921, Page 5

SITUATION IN IRELAND

DOMINICAN COLLEGE RAIDED. ENTIRE STAFF ARRESTED. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Assn.) LONDON, February 4. Crown forces raided the Dominican College at Dublin, and arrested the enure staff of lay teachers. BOMBS IN DUBLIN STREET. POLICEMAN SHOT IN AN HOTEL. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Assn.) Received February 6, 5.5 p.m. LONDON, February 1. Three bombs were thrown at a military lorry in a Dublin street. • Two exploded and one civilian was wounded. LONDON, February 5. Ryan, a military policeman, was shot dead in a Dublin hotel while drinking with his mother-in-law. Three men ci tered, and fired, inflicting five wounds on Ryan. The telephone and telegraph wires from Belfast were cut during the night, Isolating outlying towns and Dublin. It is believed that the object was to prevent the circulation of Sir Edward Carson's speech in Belfast, but the report had passed over the wires. The two policement who were wounded at Dromkeen have died. REPRISALS FOR SHOOTINGS. 17th CENTURY MANSION BURNED. Received February 6, H. 5 p.m. LONDON, February 5. Several houses and shops have been burned down at New Pallas and Dronikien as reprisals for siiooting eleven policemen. Suinmerville House, a 17th century' mansion in County Neath, belonging to Loi'd Longford, was burned down. A large party of incendiaries used explosives and petrol. The damacre is estimated at £IOO,OOO. The official report states that the mansion was destroyed with the object of preventing its military occupation. Sir .lames Craig, speaking at Belfast, said if the King or the Prince of Wales came to open the Northern Parliament, he hoped they would also open the Southern Parliament, and so end the bitter struggle. Ulster would welcome the success of the Southern Parliament.