THE IRISH PROBLEM

Hokitika Guardian, 22 January 1923, Page 3

THE IRISH PROBLEM

• OSTKAf.IA.N AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. IRISH SENATE. LONDON, Jan navy 19. Lord Glenavy, the President, sneaking from the. chair of the South Irish Senate, said that, on hehall o! the KiCC State Government, he had written to the Lister Government, urging it to throw in its lot v. itli the Free Si.-te. and promising Lister ample safeguards, and more facilities for Fist-r to trade with the South of Ireland. He added that, in view ol the chaos in the South lie expected a negative answer irom Lister. ARMY INCREASE. LONDON. January RL Flow the Dublin mail train carrying 2(!0 passengers leant a gaping chasm and miraculously escaped destruction has just come to light. The Iriegnlars on Thursday dynamited a culvert bridge between Liaduff and Templemore. The expl -ion left the skeleton rails bully .twisted, but connecting the two banks. The train travelling :.t the rate of 1o miles rn hour jumped the twelve-toot chasm. The driver tried to rev. r.-s- the engine, hut it was (on late, and the p: sson;.>.»rs were severely shaken. REBEL TIDIN' WRECKING. LONDON .L-unary 20. Seine thirty armed r- h-is have beer responsible for desperate train wrecking at Ardfert. in County Kerry. They removed a line over a culvert, and held up the linesmen, so Hint they wore unal'le to na'ii the drivor of a goodtrain from Limeri k, which lull over the embankment, killing the driver and the fireman. This crime will probably be followed by the execution of certain peis -ns im" under sentcuc of death at Tralee, who love. been spared on an understanding that the railway would not 1.. e interfered with. LONDON, January 21. Four men have been executed at T'l" 1 1< e. alter uoiivietiou hy court-mar-tial, for having possession of arm- and ammunition, following • u the latest

lata! train wreck. IRISH OCTRAGES. (Received this day at -8 a.in.) LONDON. Jan. 21. Malahide viaduct, one of the most im|M>rtant bridges - o Greal Northern Railway in Ireland, was blown up bv a land mine Armed men raided a number of subpost offices in Cork, burned tbe olliees. books, stationery and stamps. and slole sums of money. KLIiTHER EXECUTIONS. LONDON, Jan. 21. The Free State Government an■tiottnees live executions ill Atldolie and two in Limerick, making eleven yesterday. An Irish Army communique says troops discovered' a lutim-l being bililt between Mount Joy prison and Glengaird’e parade, with excavating tools aid trolleys. The tunnel was already -eventv foot long. Several men we;o i.ik'Mi pi isower. IRISH DILI- (' I'Ll IKS.

(Receiv'd this day at 'J.-'IO si.nO CONDON, January 21. The '‘Sunday Express" Dublin cur respondent says Ireland’s rebels ar

no longer mostly illiterates who are nnlv eager for pillage. I tie hidden terror of the rebellion permeates every class of society. Cultured men and women meet in saloons to discuss the mo-i: recent outrages and plan others. Rich well-dressed women hold meetings in drawing rooms and (logouts and ic-r-eivo donations from Lnited States. According to lepnrts made hy secret emissaries from Liverpool and Glasgow whence arms are shipped, show that these people form the aristocracy of the rebellion and provide its high command. They never carry arms or bring themselves within the law. hut they organise all the plots and train educated youths, engineers. medicos and students in the use of arms and explosives. Girls are .rlso trained to act as secret messengers.

The Dail Rireturn has given the Aim \- Council the widest powers. Tine death penalty may he imposed on anyone inciting, assisting or counselling murder, possessing drawings or writings against the interests of state. Then there are numerous passive or “jack'd'' rebels. These never appear in the lighting line, but steadfastly refuse to

pay any rates or taxes to the Free Stale authorities. The Free Sini is 1 roblem is to stamp out the directors of the rebellion which is n much move difficult matter than the execution of the actual perpetrators of outrages or possessors of arms. ATTACK BY .MISTAKE. LONDON. .Jan 21. General Endis. commanding West Cork area, was walking in Cork in mufti with two others officers when they were ordered to halt by three plain clothes police. Each party, Mistaking the other for rebels, opened lire. One plain clothes man was seriously wounded before the error was discovered. A RAIDERS' UNMASK INC.

UNITED SERVICE TELEGRAMS. Received this day at 1 2.25 p.m.) LONDON. January 21. Advices from Dublin state four masked men entered the home of a farmer in Portumnn, Galway, and demanded fortv pounds which they I-new lie had just icceived from the market. As they were leaving. Llie farmer’s son. enraged at the loss of the money, struck one of the raiders with an axe. practically decapitating him. and the others tied. The son tore off the dead man’s mask and found lie was his own brother.