THE IRISH PROBLEM.

Hokitika Guardian, 21 December 1922, Page 2

THE IRISH PROBLEM.

AUSTBALIAN AND N-Z- CABLE ASSOCIATION. A MISTAKE. LONDON, Dec 19. Patrick Martin, a loyalist, saw a maifcg witli a revolver and took it from him. A little later a party of Free State troops passed in a motor car. Martin ran towards them waving the revolver, being desirous of giving it up. The troops mistook the action, and riddled Martin with machine gun bullets. DETAILS OF EXECUTIONS. / LONDON, Dec. 19. " Seven men, captured in a dug-out at Kildare, last week, were executed at , Portobello Barracks, Dublin, to-day. The seven men who were executed on Thursday morning brought the total up to nineteen since the Southern Government introduced the iron-handed * methods. Arrested with these men was a woman, armed with a revolver, and do- A scribed as the proprietress of a farm-' ; I house near the Curragli, where the nr- ! rests were made, and where rifles, j re- | volvers and bombs were found/ with a ► I ton of goods looted from trains. An-. I other of this gang of ten was shot dead I trying to escape, so only two lire now I alive. The seven executed were al- : lowed to send farewell messages to relatives and friends, but they were ; tried, and the sentences were carried out quickly, under the terms of a proclamation of General Mulcahy on the I day Rory O’Connor was executed, j It has now been officially announced iat Dublin that four men, who were i found guilty of being in unlawful posI session of rifles-and ammunition, have I been sentenced to death. In view, however, of favourable reports from. General Murphy, who is commanding in - Kerry, the execution sentences havo been suspended. If, however, after Thursday next the National troops are ambushed, or if the railways or roadways are interfered with, or if private property is damaged, the sentences of death will forth- - witli he carried out. Wolfe, a young Protestant farmer, in the Kinsale district, was found dead on the roadside with five bullets in his body. He was a well-known steeplechase rider. Whether he entered an ambush, or was deliberately murdered,