SITUATION IN IRELAND

Waikato Times, Volume 94, Issue 14600, 25 February 1921, Page 5

SITUATION IN IRELAND

i * MILITARY REPRISALS CLAIMS FOR DAMAGES. MORE POLICEMEN MURDERED. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Assn.) Received February 24, 5.5 p.m. LONDON, February 23. Several householders in Cork and Middleton have issued writs against the military authorities in connection with the destruction of properly 'hi making reprisals. Armed men in Dublin shot dead two Royal Irish Constabulary detectives. Another was dangerously wounded. Armed disgused men held up a bank clerk in a street of Cork, and stole 5:i750. S2NN FE!N DESIGNS. IN ENGLAND AND SCOTLAND. ELABORATE PRECAUTIONS TAKKN. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Assn.) LONDON, February 22. In consequence of the capture of Sinn Fein documents in the Dublin raid, disclosing a sclTeme for the wholesale destruction of property in England and Scotland, the police generally have received instructions that stringent precautions for the protection of life and property are necessary. The police are to be armed with automatic revolvers, and the owners of warehouses and other properties have been warned to prepare for surprise attacks. The police raided the headquarters of the Irish Self-determination League, and arrested the general secretary, who was deported from Ireland. The arrest, has caused consternation amongst the London Sinn Feiners, many of whom are now on the run.