THE IRISH PROBLEM

Hokitika Guardian, 25 September 1922, Page 3

THE IRISH PROBLEM

mSTHAI.I.'S AND N. 7.. CAULK ASSOCIATION. EIGHT IN SLIGO. LONDON, Sept 22. Brigadier Devine, an anti-Trenty -member of the Mail Eireann. also Professor Maciteill’s son. Brian, and iotir other rebels have been killed in a battle with Free State Forces in County Sligo mountains. Professor MncneilPs brothers are serving in* the Free State 1 army and hi-* is also a. Kroo Stater. unhappy IRELAND. (Received this day at 8 a.m.) LONDON. September 23. All telegraph and telephone wires and railw. y linos to Kerry w'cic do.— troyeel by irregulars who coiieentratcel most of their forces in the mountains carrying on operations with reneweel activity daily. Firm Statens arc hampered by broken bridges and barricaded roads and are constantly ambushed from mountain tops. A strong lorce i*required to dislodge l the irregulars. The plight of the civil papulation is serious. Brigandage is rampant and hundreds are workless ami on llnverge of starvation. The object ol the Irregulars seems to be to starve the people into submission. Mr Cossgrove informed Parliament that compensation for property damaged since the truce amounts to between twenty and thirty millions sterling. Parliament adopted a resolution accepting the principle that local authorities be responsible for compensation for damage done from a future; undefined elato. MORE DESTRUCTION. '’Received this (lav aL 8.30 a.m.', LONDON, Sept 23. Armed men held up a passenger train at Banslia. from Tipperary. They smashed the carriages and sprinkled petrol, and set thc>m on fire. Elsewhere rails were torn up, and culverts and bridges damaged. Irregulars raided the* Grand era mil boats. They looted much property. • Numerous ambushes occurred in Cork County. Elec Staters claim they killed seven 1 (regulars.