IRISH REPUBLICAN LEADERS

Shannon News, 10 April 1923, Page 4

IRISH REPUBLICAN LEADERS

ACTIVE, MILITANTS, WORKING FOB PEACE. '• - j BUSS BIcSWINEY HOLDS OUT. (Received Monday, 8.10 P-ni;).„ . ; ' *'«' ***>• “ April ’9.; TheCate’ of -Archbishop'* HartyC ; pe.ace -proposals is: in the glance. A fortnight ago the Executive Council 1 of tSe Republicans' rejected '•them provisionally, biit will iheet again this week for a ; final: decision.- ~ It is understood that Messrs de Valera - and, Austin Stack have .softened their op- • position; D aind it is I 'holbed 11 Greneral Liam Lynch will follow: £heir - rex-, .: r jMo^t;\of >; other members, "of (lie executive'.'except '"Miss' /Mb- ( . -Stfiney^lt ‘ie 'belibtfßctr' ! favofir’ J "Ar’ch-y bishopthe two most; militants in the Souths Toih tried, to get i dTufiiig-the fighting/ 1 l 'diSguiaed J ‘as a 1 'nurse, ail’d 1 -Humphrey 1 - Murphy, of Kerry, are working hard for peace. : '

DIMINISHED, BUT STILL ACTIVE. RAIDS ' FOR * EXPLOSIVES. (Received Monday," < / , L9NDON,, April .9; '■/ Despite r optimistic reports of . the * evei-incfeising ,J riumber i; of ’ • arrests, r : rebel outrages 1 Of all-types continue-! in, Southern,lreland, and rebel adherehtsi in Britain arp.active. An ariped rdani : in ’a‘white m4sk, J , evidently an ‘gunmain, 'led afraidKinghtsWood 1 brick- works;- ‘hear f Glasgow,assisted; by two- njen wearing;, black ( masks ahd; farmed jWithl'feyblyers. They/held jup; f; twb 21 bo'unfi them.’ f hahd 'and r f OOt ‘and'placed' them in -a -wooden hut they.; searched the praises, for gelignite. When they fbund’ a q ( uahtity the three men ;es~ capdd dn bicycles. : T:Other Jobbers 'Seized:’two- casks of blasting powder and other explosives at-.Pehtpiawf ’Quarfy, "Wales'.' TWO’bddies of‘rebms enter&d Head--'toYSf Galway,* 3 %hd two "lairge .warehouses .adjoining the National; Bank,' where national tropos were " quartered./ t ; fighting' continued fpr' ! several hotfrs until the warehouses; were - 'destroyed by'-fire. ” The rebels; retreated, leaving -four dead.„ . Four, Free Staters were wonrided.. ~ • '/, ' Five armed nieh' -'in a big'/tßuring' car raided- the' house Of who is Coroner':at;-D,ublin; and seized; the depositions and documents in con-; nectlon with the"iphuest; on/a* youth 3 recently found shot -lh ? -a Dublin ’street. The outrage - is 'apparently ‘ connected with motorists who murdered the 3 officers B reslln and' Kesnan.. 1 TEN THOUSAND CAPTIVES. IN HANDS OF FREE STATE. ~> ..(Received Monday, ‘7/p.m.) t >■ .. ~r.-o .u- ; LONDON April 8. ' Mr:: O’Higgins,. Frejß jstate" Minister of Home . Affairs, has thatthere are', now, lO'.OO'O : captives on 'the Government handstand they are coming. in at the rate of ,2 00 rdaily. In a ’liberal estimate, those still active against = th,e State number about 2500. AT HIS GRAVESIDE. A FORTUITOUS ESCAPE. ?

(Received Monday, 7 p.m.) , . ; 1 London, April fc., > Mr, ■ Hrinafiri ’ Whb Vas ; captured by rebels, wag taken, to the hills and sentenced ' A 1 was dug ‘and he W’as 1 being'’marched to it.-for execution, when/Ffee State troops unexpectedly arrived. The Re-' bels fled, and Hanafin escaped.