THE IRISH PROBLEM.

Hokitika Guardian, 17 July 1922, Page 2

THE IRISH PROBLEM.

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. FIGHTING IN SLIGO. LONDON, July 15. Sligo is experiencing a reign of terror and bloodshed. There has been continuous fighting for ten days. The Nationalists, under McCeon, captured Collooney, after a fierce struggle. De Valera has reached Cork, which is now the biggest rebel stronghold. The rebels are holding the Vittoria military barreks, and dominate the city, commandeering wholesale. A party of Nationalists returning from Sligo was ambushed and sev.en killed. Two thousand have enlisted in the first Dublin Brigade, including many ex-soldiers and first aid workers and .'doctors. , , Claims lodged with the Town Clerk, Dublin, on account of the destruction of property during the recent fighting, amount already to one and a half millions sterling. . , Three Irregulars have been arrested In connection with tile death of Captain Browne, a Free State.officer, who was shot in the abdomen while roundiiv up Irregulars in Kilderry. They will he arraigned on a capital charge.

A RAID ON THE FISH. LONDON, July 15. When a British fishing vessel had to seek shelter at Dunmore, Irish rebels hoarded the ship, and seized a portion of the fish at the point of the rfevdlvci.

REPUBLICANS TACTICS. LONDON, July 15. Owing to wholesale destruction of means of communication, business is stagnant in many parts of Ireland, and in some places there are people.on the verge of starvation, through being unable to obtain food supplies. In Limerick the conditions are the most serious. The Irregulars and the Nationals are entrenched m different parts of the town. They have been fighting four days without decisive resets The Nationals hold all the strategical points round Limerick. The situation in the country resemWw the end of the Boer war, as Guerilla tactics have been adopted by the rebels, who are ambushing the Nationals, and they disperse when the defence becomes too strong,