THE IRISH PROBLEM.

Hokitika Guardian, 27 July 1922, Page 2

THE IRISH PROBLEM.

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. FREE STATERS HELD UP. LONDON, July 26. Fifty Irregulars at Lillnrin, in County Wexford, in Southern Ireland, ambushed a train containing Republican prisoners, who were escorted by Nationalist foteCS: Two coaches contained the Nationalists and the prisoners were locked in a third coach, while tlie remaining coaches were crowded with civilians. Shortly after the train was emerging from a tunnel, two shots rang out. The train immediately stopped. A hail of fire was directed upon it from heights on both sides of the lino. The Free State troops then jumped through the windows*, and charged the attackers, and courageouslv pursued them up the hills. Two of the Nationals were killed and seven were wounded. Seven of the assailants were wounded. The engine driver was arrested. LONDON, July 25. The civilian passengers on the tram wo';e panic-stricken, particularly the women and.children, hut, they threw themselves full length upon the floor of tho earringes. Tho lasted throe-quartern, of an hour, the firing being continuous. The Free Staters, despite their disadvantage due to the unexpectedness of the attack and to the expoSt-fi jjoSiti.qil. never watered under the rain of lead. The Irregulars had selected a good cover. Some bullets penetrated the carriage window s, and the floors were strewn with broken

glass. When the train arrived in Dublin some snipers on the roofs of buildings launched another attack, aided >y rebels among the crowd on the station platform.

LATEST REPORTS. LONDON, July 25

Snipers were busy in the Four Courts area of Dublin during the night. There was much rifle, revolver and machine-

gun activity. . . Tho Nationalists’ successes ill the country continue. The Irregulars every where arc in headlong flight. FREE STATE ATTACK ON CORK. LONDON, July 2*. A Free State attack on Cork «ity is imminent. * ,< „ A force of Free Staters, operating from Ciaremoriis, in County Mayo, have Occupied Castlebar, fourteen miles distant ti, the northwest, withotlt, .1 simt beinti 111 Oil. The. rebels there set C ir o to a number of buildings before tliov evacuated .the town. - _ •- The rebels captured and 'burned the Evrecourt Barracks, in County Galway ■iftor a stubborn resistance by a gairison of eight Free Staters, who were taken prisoners. DE VALERA LOCATED. LONDON, July 25. Air He Valera was with the rebels in Tipperary on Sunday. He lias now gone to Cashel. LONDON, July 25 Mr (Javan Duffy has resigned from H ‘ i r j„i, Free State-Government. He agrees with it regarding the i- ree-tate ndlitary policy, but ho dissents <•> other respects,