IRISH MURDERS.

Taranaki Daily News, 9 December 1922, Page 5

IRISH MURDERS.

A FREE STATE VICTIM. ATTACK OUTSIDE DAIL. ASSAILANTS ESCAPE. By Telegraph. Assn.—Copyright. Received Dee. 8, 8.25 p.m. London, Doc. 7. Mr. Cosgrave, in the Dail Eireann, announced the assassination of Mr. iiales (a Minister) and tho wounding of Mr. O’Malley (deputy Speaker). As Mr. Hales and Mr. O’Malley left their hotel in a hackney car seven men, who had been waiting for them outside, opened revolver fire, Mr.. Hales receiving a bullet in the jaw and another in the right breast. Mr. O’Malley waft shot in the back and the right arm. The assailants scattered and ran. The murder caused a sensation in Dublin. Mr. Hales and Mr. O’Malley were about to enter a car when the murderers opened fire. Mr. O’Malley, supporting Mr. cried to the driver to drive' to the Jervie Street hospital, but Mr. Hales died a minute after admission. A bullet was extracted from Mr. O’Malley, whose condition is not critical. A tender carrying British troops reached the scene directly after the shote were fired and pursued the murderers, who fled. One of the officers leaped out of the tender and dashed after the fugitives, firing a revolver, but without result. The murderers escaped in a maze of streets. Mr. Hales wae a close friend of the late Mr. Michael Collins. Mr. Hales’ brother Tom was a leader of the irregulars and was taken prisoner a fortnight ago.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Association.

REBELS RUSH VILLAGE. THE GARRISON SURRENDERS. Received Dec. 8, 5.5 p.m. London, Dec. 7. Irregulars, possessing an armored car and machine guns, rushed the village of Ballymakeera, near Macroom, which was held by a Free State garrison numbering a hundred. Fighting continued for several hours and ultimately the garrison, after the loss of one killed and fifteen seriously wounded, The irregulars gathered all the available arms and ammunition and marched the prisoners to the mountains. Subsequently the prisoners returned to Ballymakeera, the irregulars finding it impossible to detain such a large party in thinly inhabited mountainous coun-try.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Association.

ISOLATION OF ULSTER. CONTRACTING-OUT PROPOSAL. Received Dec. 8, 8.35 p m. London, Dec. 7. Sir James Craig, submitting the contract-ing-out proposal in the Ulster Parliament, which took the form of an address to the King praying that the powers of the Free State Parliament and the Government should not extend to Northern Ireland, declared that the only possible way to secure co-operation and peace was for the south to settle its own affairs, the north carrying on its own Parliament. The Senate carried an identical motion. Parhament has adjourned and Sir James Craig has gone to London.

DUBLIN QUIET. BUT A COUP FEARED. ANTI-OUTRAGE MEASURES. London, Dec. 7. Dublin this week has been more immune from crimes than for months past; nevertheless the best informed men arc gravely anxioua regarding tho immediate future, as a number of prominent Republicans have been seen in the city, and a coup is feared. Anti-outrage precautions are widespread. 'No one is permitted to enter the Government buildings without being searched. Troops are patrolling the streets. Among Mr. Cosgrove's nominees for the Senate are the Dowager Countess Deeart. and the Marquis of Headfort. Lords Dun raven, Granard, Glcnavy, Kerry, Mayo, Wicklow. Sir Thomas Gratton Esmonde, Sir Nugent 'Everard, Sir John Keane, Sir Bryon Mahon and Sir Horace Plunkett.