IRISH OUTRAGES.
THRILLS IN DUBLIN. LAND MINE EXPLODES. BOMB THROWN IN STREET. By Telegraph.—Press Aish.—Copyright. Received Dec. 29, 11.15 p.m. London, Dec. 29. A land mine placed near MeCullagh s music shop, in Dawson Street, Dublin, destroyed the building and damaged others, the explosion shaking the city. No deaths are reported, but many were injured. McCullagh is a probable candidate for a vacancy in the Free State Senate. A bomb was thrown in Angier Street, Dublin, while a tender filled with Free State troops was passing. No troops were injured, but a man and girl in the crowded street were seriously wounded. Free State soldiers surprised a party of seven rebels in a public-house at Clonakildy, County Cork. The first Free Stater to enter was shot dead, whereupon his comrades returned the fire and wounded one and seized three rebels. The other rebels then fired at the lamps and escaped in the darkness after a hand to hand struggle. A gun was found under the counter. BARRACKS CAPTURED. REBELS OUTNUMBER GARRISON. Received Dec. 29, 8.45 p.m. London, Dec. 28. Irregulars captured the Free State barracks at Dowra, County Cavan. They disarmed the garrison, who were outnumbered and unable to offer opposition, and carried off two machine guns and a large quantity of rifle* and ammunition. IRREGULARS AT WORK. RAILWAY STRIKE THREAT. London, Dec. 28. Armed men held up a Dublin postman, abstracted a cheque for £l6 from a mail bag, marched the postman to a public house under threat of shooting, and compelled him to forge the payee’s name and present the cheque, then took the postman to a suburb, gave him £2, and decamped.
Eighty-six Irregulars have been released from Galway Gaol on an undertaking to relinquish arms against the Free State.
The difficulties of the Free State Government through lawlessness in Ireland are likely to be increased by a general strike of railway workers, which is threatened on Sunday at midnight. The men object to the flat rate reduction of 3e 6d weekly. The Ulster Government has notified the Free State that it will not permit the latter, in its railway nationalisation scheme, to interfere with The portion of the Irish railways operating in the northern territory.
Very little hope is now entertained of a mutual Government agreement as to the northern boundary line. The commission will sit in London at the New Year.
The Daily Mail says there have been rumors, which are indignantly repelled by the authorities, that some sections of the Free State armj' are not overloyal to the Free State and have been undermined by rebel propaganda. Whatever the facts are, there have recently been cases of whole garrison’ of National troops being captured under suspicious circumstances by rebel raiding columns.
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Taranaki Daily News, 30 December 1922, Page 5
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