IRISH AFFAIRS.

Taranaki Daily News, 6 October 1922, Page 5

IRISH AFFAIRS.

OFFER OF AN AMNESTY. AN AID TO PEACE. PARDON FOR REBELS. By Telegraph.—Press Assn. —Copyright. London, Oct. 4. The Irish Government s amnesty clamation says that the knows many persons were forced to* participate in the rebellion against their will and others have come to realise that they have put their hands to the, ruin of the motherland. The Government is moved by the hope of restoring peace without further bloodshed of loss and has decided that the opportunity be offered, even now, to those' willing to throw in their lot with the. majority of their countrymen to with-; draw from the rebellion with immunity.. The port of Greenore, the connecting line between Holyhead and all inland places north of Drogheda has been completely isolated from the railway point of view as the result of Irregulars blowing up a large viaduct between Greenore and Dundalk. The Irregulars blocked all roads to Greenore and cut the telegraph wires in many places. The Nationals recaptured Meath without any fighting, the Irregulars withdrawing at dawn. OUTRAGE BY REBELS. A SHOCKING STORY. London, Oct. 3. A shocking story of a Republican outrage on a newly-married couple is related. The Dublin correspondent of the Daily Telegraph states that armed men entered the house, placing the couple against the wall, and holding revolvers at their heads. They ransacked the house, stealing and destroying many valuables. They brought whisky with them and were soon in a horrible condition. The hueband was placed under an arm’d guard while the wife was dragged from room to room and ordered to find money, the ruffians torturing her by twisting her arms, saying that if money was not. produced they would shoot husband and wife. Finally she admitted that she had a few pounds of housekeeping money. As they left the gang threatened, if an alarm was raised, to return and shoot the woman.