Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1920-04-05 | Page 2 | Police Barracks and Post Are Destroyed

IR0L1GE BARRACKS ARID POSTS ARE DESTROYED THvo Policemen Shot and Seriously Ser-iously Wounded at Bally-hounis Bally-hounis Other Outrages liON'DO.V, April fi. The Prexs a.-jxk a.-jxk lotion says that the authorities' hae received reports that more than CO police barracks and posts, for the most part unoccupied, havp been dc-s'royed dc-s'royed during the week-end and that no policeman were shot and sorloua-'vf sorloua-'vf wounded at Ballyhaunls. M ST 13 It DEMONSTRATIONS UfBLIN. April 4, (By the Assocl-uod Assocl-uod Press) Easier demonstrations in Ireland did not develop Into a spectacular effort of force against the s.m ernment, which th adherents of the republican cause consilered would bo suicidal, but there was :i series of outrage. In many parts of the Island. The malcontents took a new anIo ; in their work when they attacked six-lcnn six-lcnn tax officers in many cities and i.- own, destroying the records in vnri--"' jvs was. but mostly by flre.- The attacks against police bar- incks and police huts numbered 3.". In most of the case the police hd let the barracks to go io concen-l concen-l ration points In the larger cities. Where only women and children Wer4; left in the barracks or huts the iaidfr. save warning of their lntcn-ions: lntcn-ions: hence there were no casualties. Deslructkui or TnS. Hooord; At Dublin Castle it was stated that he destruction of the tax records olild nvail nothing; all citizens whose records hvAe been destroyed rll be reassessed, and their taxes are I ikelv to be Increased by the need of 'vuls to replace the barra'-'ks and ut'ts destroyed. I' Attacks oir the police barruclis and ! eo' eminent offices arc reported from I? Limerick, both town nd county, and 5 .isr from several ulaccs In County I'lalre. No casualties are yet reported, iv ept from the wounding of two soldiers by John Mitchell whom they .n'restcd at Glenade. Lietrim county. .Mitchell fired ropeutcdly before stir-rendering, stir-rendering, i The Sinn Kein flap .has been riving all day long from the iriasthwtd df 1 the flagstaff- on the admiralty per at Queenstown. It was hoisted during the night and the pole was well fcreased, to prevent It ft'om being hauled down. Sinn Peltiers Arrested "n Sinn Felnors were arrested it Xewry In eonnectloit with outrages. out-rages. A message from Tullamoro reports re-ports that a masked bAnd fate Saturday Satur-day night roused from his tied farmer and his faihUy residing In Kings county and ordered them Into he farm i'a'rd. They seated the whole fanllly on chairs and. having rompelled the farmer's, son. Kleran r-'lynn. to stand up. fired at him.; wounding him seriously- In the arm I and abdomen. They theti attempted 1 to blow up the house and decamped.-1 decamped.-1 - i 1 AUTHORITIES AlilSiVI' 1 Belfast. April l. Thero whs no ex-1 H ptt'tation of serious trouble here, and IB the troops were not even conlneii I to barracks Saturday nig-hi. But the I authorities wore alert, when, it was I discovered that the telegraphic wire. had been cut and that telephonic communication with the south gen-I gen-I erally had suddenly ceased. Later I it was found that raids on the police I barracks had occurred at Clough, j I Ttostrevor. Lough and other places.. I in Belfast Sinn Feiners made sim-I sim-I ultancous attempts to burn govern-j I ment property; several buildings were; I set afire, but without serious results. 1 l.l Admission to the buildings was' 1 gained by the. raiders disguised an 11 tccgraph' employes. All the raiders got paf ely away. 1 When the wires Wore restored It was found that nttompls had been' made to burn the revenue- offices In, DundalK. I j Early Sunday mbrnlng seven Sinnj Feiners forced an entrance into the Newry customs house, and burned rill documents found. Thirty disguised dis-guised -men attacked an untenanted tarracUs at Loughbrlctland which f.-ns wrecked with explosives. oo ' r