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Hokitika Guardian, 13 December 1922, Page 2

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THE IRISH PROBLEM.

: -Hi VI.IAN AND N.Z. CAULK ASSOCIATION A REBEL ATTACK. LONDON. Dec 12. One hundred rebels rushed the National Army Barracks at Carrick-on-Suir, and took prisoner the garrison. Tlien they rounded up thirty members of the National Army in the streets and kinennis. The rebels, however, released troops after setting fire to the barracks, the hospital, and the post office. Later on, when National reinforcements arrived, they were fired on from a lull. REBELS DEFIED. LONDON, Deo 12. Mr Martin Fitzgerald, the proprietor of the Dublin “Freeman’s Journal.” whom the Republicans ordered to leave Ireland under a threat of death (as cabled on December otli), will defy the rebel-: and ho has refused to leave Ireland. DE VALERA’S BULLETIN. 'phe “Daily Mail’s” Dublin correspondent says in a mysterious bulletin, de Valera’s type written journal which appears with clock-work regularity. how and where no one knows, is published a rebel manifesto in reply to the Government execution reprisals. In definite language it foreshadowed bloodshed aitd says the Republicans are neither terrified nor dismayed. They consecrated their lives lo their cause; Let those who by word oi deed sanction reprisals, know lor thorn there will be no ease or peace till this monster liegotteff iff England is utterly and finally destroyed. In the sanu number of the Bulletin. De Valera s Cabinet give, tlieir version of the affair* leading up to the present position, declaring the spirit- of England is at the. bottom of the trouble.