IRISH FREE STATE

Ashburton Guardian, Volume XLIII, Issue 9747, 13 December 1922, Page 5

IRISH FREE STATE

NEW GOVERNOR-GENERAL POPE’S MESSAGE, TO MR HEALEY (Per Press Association, Copyright.'! (Received .This Day, 10.10 a.m.) LONDON, December 12. The Pope sent a message to Mr Tim Healey cordially welcoming his appointment. He prays that a happy eia of peace and prosperity will now set in for the beloved people of Ireland. He also sent his apostolic blessing. A party of 100 rebels rushed the National Army barracks at Carrick-on-Suir, County Tipperary. They took the garrison prisoners and then rounded up 30 soldiers of the National Army in the streets and the cinema theatres. The rebels released their prisoners after setting fire to the barracks, the hospital and the post office. Later National reinforcements arrived and were fired on from the hill.

THREAT TO JOURNALISTS. NEW YORK, December 11. Mr Martin Fitzgerald, proprietor of the Dublin “Freeman’s Journal,” whom the Republicans have ordered to 4eave. Ireland under threat of death, has cabled that he will defy the rebels and refuse to leave Ireland. [A previous message said the proprietor, the assistant-editor, and_ the leader-writer of the “Freeman’s Journal,” and also the editor of the “Irish Independent,”, had received letters from the “officer commanding the irregulars in Dublin,” threatening them with death unless they left Ireland by noon on December B.] THE NEW IRELAND. REPLY TO GENERAL SMUTS. (Received This Day, Noon.) LONDON, December 12. The President, Mr Cosgrave, replying to General Smuts’ message of congratulation, says: “We thoroughly appreciate your , personal / share in bringing about this great act of jus-., tiee and heartily join in the hope that the emergence of Ireland as a free nation of the Commonwealth group may lead to the strengthening of the spiritual bond uniting the nations which colnpose it.