DUBLIN WAR.

Taranaki Daily News, 6 July 1922, Page 5

DUBLIN WAR.

SPECTACULAR BATTLE. ADVANCE OF TROOPS. THE REBELS ENVELOPED. POST OFFICE STORMED. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. Received July 5,5 J p.m. London, July 4. To-day’s battle highly spectacular Armored cars were constantly in action, while a smoke and bomb barrage concealed the stormers. who did good execution with hand grenades. Thus the Free State attackers systematically advanced from Nelson’s pill?? along Sackville Street, the tramway office being first captured. The rebels replied with vigorous rifle fire, but, as tne day went on, nearly all the snipmg-posts were captured. The Free Staters stormed the General Post Office and took 30 prisoners. Late in the evening the Republicans were confined to three hotels, namely, the Gresham, the Granville and the Crown. These are old brick buildings, and could easily be shattered if the Government ehose to do the necesary damage. A Free State communique states: The enveloping movement of the Dublin Guards in the O’Connell Street area is nearing completion. All the Irregulars have b-°n driven out of Earl Street, and the Irregulars in the Gresham Hotel and adjoining buildings have been pletely surroundc Mr. Churchill, in the House of Common*, stated that the Republicans had burnt the orphanage for Protestant children at Clifden, County Galway, saying it was done as a reprisal for the inmates’ loyalty. The =*af and 32 children were rescued and brought in a destroyer to Queenstown. It was announced at Dublin that the Mill mount Barracks, a stronghold of the Republicans at Drogheda, is aflame. Our troop* are eloeing in. Unofficial -eperts state that fighting is in progress in Sligo, where Republicans wrecked and burnt the police barracks and did much damage to the railway. They also destroyed th* houses of all Protestants at Ccoloney. MOVEMENTS OF FORCES. ESTIMATE OF CASUALTIES. London, July 4. There was much machine-gun fire in O’Connell Street between one and nine o'clock this morning. Afterwards it was confined to occasional snipers’ shots by Irregulars. After the latter had hoi*t-d the white flag at Marlborough Street parcels office they fired on the Nationalists, wounding several. The Y.M.C.A. building, which the Irregulars occupied, was completely destroyed by fire. The latest estimate of the ca-ualties is 60 killed and 212 wounded. An official statement declares that all the important centres are now in Nationalist hands, including Athlono, Mullingar, Longford and Trim. The Irregulars have been driven out of the Menagh barracks and have abandoned Roserea. where eight were captured. The Irregulars in the Clonmel area have resorted to conscription. The control mid-Tipperary, where Burne, the rebel leader, was captured with a quantity of arms. They also dominate Kilkenny County. The Ulster special c onstabulary captured Glenfarn barracks, Leitrim, near the Ulster border, after a stubborn resistance. Nationalist tropos patrolling Wicklow occupied the Town Hall, which the Irregulars hurriedly evacuated. leaving a quantity of explosives and munitions. Nine were captured.

DE VALERA ESCAPES. LOYALISTS RELEASED. London. July 4. It is believed that de Valera and ether leaders have escaped. The Nationalists resorted to smoke bombs to dislodge the Irregulars from the buildings in Sarkville Street, but failed, the inmat*, replying r Ith a vigorous fire. An Irregular was it in Donegal for Cowardice in face o he enemy. All the northern Loyalists kidnapped by liregufairs have been released from the Inch Fort. Seventeen prisoners, sentenced for looting at Dundalk, escaped from gaol. Friends supplied them with revolver?, and they drove away in motor lorries. The military gave chase, and the prisoners kept up a running fight, but were ultimately captured. One prisoner Was seriously wounded. FREE STATERS’ SUCCESS. ACQUIRING AIRCRAFT. London, July 4. The Free Stater’ have occupied three more buildings in .Sackville Street. It reported that Countess Markievicz and a few women snipers were captured during these operations. A garrison of thirty in the Hammon Hotel surrendered this evening. Tt is understood the Free State Government is negotiating with the Aireraft Disposal Board for the purchase of six fighting aeroplanes in addition to several larger bombing aircraft. Two bombing aeroplanes, with the Free <tafp colors, have departed for Dublin, and others will follow. •Mr. Churchill, in the House of Commons. said the records department in the Four Courts comprised legal, ecclesiastical and testamentary documents from the thirteenth century, all the wills from 1530 tn 1R99, and the census return* from IR2I to 1857. He was unable to state whether any had escaped destruction. REBEL BULLETIN.

London. July 3. A issued bv Mellow details the movements of bodies of Irregukirs. It states that a column from Bandon moved into Skibbpreen and demanded the surrender of the Free State barracks in Adare. The barracks were surrendered with forty men. The garrisons at Croom. Patrickswel! and BaiHngarry have evacuated, and are retreating. All goes well with the republic in the south, where the Trish Republican Army is volunteering in overwhelming numbers.