REBEL OVERTHROW.

Auckland Star, Volume LIII, Issue 194, 17 August 1922, Page 5

REBEL OVERTHROW.

ARMY DISSOLVING. SICK OF THE CAMPAIGN. SLIPPING BACK TO HOMES. MANY TAKE TO THE HILLS. (By Cable.—press Association.—Copyright.) (Received 11 a.m.) LONDON", August 10. All the heart has gone out of the rebel resistance, and numbers are returning to Cork hourly without their j arms. The moral of the routed forces is j described by observers as deplorable. The majority appear to be sick of the whole business, and many take any opportunity to slip back to their homes. The insurgents lost eleven killed and forty wounded in an engagement in South Cork, while the Free State troops had six killed and twenty-five wounded. (Reuter.) Other advices state that the Irish rebel army is in a state of dissolution in all directions. There is a general movement to leave the towns for the hilly inaccessible country, where they are forming roving bands, living by plunder. An enormous amount or I damage is being done, and the recovery of the community is severely handicapped through tiie wholesale destruction of roads and railway bridges. A series of engagements took place near Navan, between a large party of irregulars and national detachment.-.. Sixty-six irregulars were captured. , A special constabulary post was fired on near Wattlebridge, Fermanagh, inside the Ulster border. The fire was returned. The casualties are not known, j It is generally believed that Dublin i was the objective of the rebels, who j seized Dundalk and other points in j County Louth. The swoop was undoubtedly intended as a diversion from the southerly operations. The Dundalk rebels attempted to shoot down an aeroplane, fa-iliiu; by a narrow margin.— (A. and N.Z. Cable.) MR. GRIFFITH'S FUNERAL. BEEP NATIONAL GRIEF. (Received 2 p.m.i LONDON, August IC. The Stock Exchange, banks, and business houses in Dublin closed for Mr. Arthur Griffith's funeral; The train services were suspended. A distinguished representative congregation attended solemn High Mass in the pro-Cathedral. Everywhere there were signs of deep! national grief. Dense crowds lined the i route. The cortege was headed by national troops, with Mr. Michael Collins in the uniform of commander-in- J chief, followed by tiio headquarters staff, i members of Government, and the Dail | representatives, national organisations, | and municipalities throughout the Free State. No untoward incident occurred. (Reuter.)