THE IRISH PROBLEM

Hokitika Guardian, 17 August 1922, Page 2

THE IRISH PROBLEM

IVSTHALMN AND N.Z. CADI.® ASSOCIATION. THE REBEL ARMY. (Received this day at 8 a.m.) LONDON, August IG. Tbe Irish re be l army is in a state of dissolution in all directions. There is a genera] movement to leave the towns for billy, inaccessible country, where they are forming roving bands, living bv plunder. An enormous amount of damage is being done, and tbe recovery of the community severely handicapped, through the wholesale destruction of roads and railway bridges. It is generally believed that Dublin was the objective of tbe rebels, who seized Dundalk and other points in County Louth. A swoop was undoubtedly intended as a diversion from the southerly operations. Dundalk rebels attempted to sin>ot down an aeroplane, failing by a narrow margin.

REPUBLICANS’ SUCCESS.

LONDON, Aug 15. The Irish rebels’ success in the North of Ireland is likely to be short lived. They are already falling back before an advance of tie.- -tate reinforcements, which are concentrating on Drogheda. A battle there is imminent.

Several more southern towns have been taken by the Free Staters, who have surrounded the main body of rebels in County Cork.