FIGHT IN PRISON.

Taranaki Daily News, 12 October 1922, Page 5

FIGHT IN PRISON.

- CONFLICT IN DUBLIN. ARMS SMUGGLED IN. ATTACK ON THE GUARDS. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. London, Oct. 10. One prisoner and one Free State soldier were killed and many wounded during a conflict in Mountjoy Prison, where hundreds of irregulars are detained. Arms and am unition were secretly smuggled into the prison and fire opened on the guard, which returned the fire and quickly quelled the disturbance. Received Oct. 11, 11.25 p.m. London, Oct. 11. In the Dublin Provisional Parliament, replying to questions in regard to the outbreak at Mountjoy Prison, the President said the official report showed that three guards were dead and two wounded. One prisoner was dead and two wounded. Tw> land mines were found in cells, indicating co-operation from outside. He promised to enquire into the matter and see that precautions in future were full. A meeting of the Irish Heirarchy at Maynooth issued a pastoral strongly condemning the revolt and the guerilla warfare against the Free State Government. It declares the killing of Nationalist soldiers is murder before God. It denounces robberies, the destruction of roads and' railways and other outrages, and announces that persons guilty of such crimes will not be given absolution or admitted to Coni munion if they persist in such evil courses. Any priests approving of the insurrection are false to their office and guilty of the gravest scandal, and will not be allowed to retain the faculties held from the Hierarchy. Twenty-five irregular • prisoners at the courthouse at Kantury, County Cork, overpowered the guard and seized rifles and ammunition and escaped. The Nationals are actively searching for them.—Reuter Service. IMPROVED CONDITIONS. ULSTER PARLIAMENT OPENS. Received Oct. 11, 10.330 p.m. London, Oct. 10. The autumn session of the Ulster Parliament has opened. The Premier (Sir James Craig) said Parliament had met under more satisfactory conditions than on any occasion since selfgovernment. Ulster would not go under the Dublin Parliament so long as he held office. No man in his senses would suggest any other course than voting out the Free State when the time came.—Aus NZ. Cable Assn.