FIGHTING IN IRELAND.

Auckland Star, Volume LIII, Issue 227, 25 September 1922, Page 5

FIGHTING IN IRELAND.

| ! | RAILWAY LINES DAMAGED. I j MANY AMBUSHES IN CORK. I (By Cable. -Press Association.—Copyright.) (Received 0.30 a.m.. j LONDON, September 24. | Armed men held up a passenger train from Tipperarv at Bansha, smashed the carriage., sprinkled thorn with petrol and set them on tire. At other pointa the rails were torn up and culvert- and bridge.! damaged. Irregulars raided the Grand Canal lioats and looted much property. Numerous ambushes occurred in Cork County. Tho Free State troops claim that they killed seven irregulars.— (A. and N.Z. Cable.) GUERILLA "WARFARE. TACTICS OF THE REBELS. STARVING THE PEOPLE. LONDON", September 24. All telegraph and telephone wire* and railway line., in County Kerry have been destroyed by rebels, who have concentrated most "of their forces in the mountains, and aro carrying on operations ] villi renewed activity daily. Free Stnters are hampered by broken bridges and barricaded roads, and are constantly ambushed from mountain tops. A strong force is required to dislodge the rebels. The plight of the civil population Is serious, lirigandage is rampant, and hundreds of families are without work and on the verge of starvation. The object of the rebels seems to be to starve. Ibv people into submission.— ( A. and N.Z. Cable.) DAIL MEMBER KILLED. FIGHT WITH FREE STATE j TROOPS. I i LONDON. September 22. | Brigadier Devins, an anli-treaty mem- j bor in the Dail Eirann, Professor Mac- j nrili's son Brian, and four other rebels were killed in battle with Free [ State troops in the Sligo mountains. I Macncill's brothers arc serving in the Fro.- State army.—lA. and N.Z.i _____________ i * i