IRISH AFFAIRS.

Hokitika Guardian, 20 April 1923, Page 3

IRISH AFFAIRS.

[by n;t.K(.Haiti — run vkiosk association.] IRISH CUFF FIGHT. (Rocoivod this dav sit 11.15 a.in.) LONDON, April 19. A thrilling narrative of a Filty hours attack on a rebel stronghold in a cl ill rising sheer from the sea on Kerry coast, near the Causeway overlooking the Shannon mouth is now published. A Free State officer and three soldiers on Monday discovered a crevice, barely large enough to admit a man. They climbed down and came to the mouth of a cave. A lew feel inside they found a barricade. They got through this and then found another barricade. While tlie Free Staters weie removing it n volley was tired from inside, a volunteer, O'Neill, being nan tally wounded and Lieutenant Pierson seriously. Their two miwoiinded companions replied to the lire until Free State troops above lowered ropes and hauled the wounded officer and other men to the top, under heavy lire from the cave. O’Neill's body meanwhile ivas Hung to the beach below where it lay throughout the light. Later free Staters made efforts to smoke out the garrison. Two mines were lowered and exploded while maehiuo guns opened fire on the face of tie cliff, but the rebels in the cave me sfili nneoiK|Uered and seem safe, though the only alternative to .surrender is starvation. OATH OF ALLEGIANCE, (Received this day at 9.15 a.m.) LONDON, 'April 19. A Bill was read the second time in Lister Pa: liament making it compulsory for civil servants to take the oath of allegiance to the King and Northern l.lovernmeni. It will at a later date be proposed to include school 'leathers.