§ MR. LONSDALEI beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland whether he has been furnished with particulars of two shooting outrages in the Gort district on 9th January; and whether the perpetrators have been discovered.
I beg also to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland whether he has received particulars of a shooting outrage at Garryland, near Gort, on 8th January; and whether the police have made any arrests in connection with this occurrence.
§ MR. BIRRELLThe hon. Member appears to have inverted the dates of the offences referred to in these two questions. The offence of the 8th January was the subject of a question which the hon. Member put to me yesterday, namely, the firing at men who were felling trees 727 on Lord Gough's property near Gort. On the night of 9th January shots were fired through the window of a room in Garryland Lodge, near Gort, and at the same time shots were fired at an engine-driver's hut at that place. In the absence of evidence, it has not been possible to make any arrests.