RAID IN DUBLIN.

Auckland Star, Volume LIII, Issue 301, 20 December 1922, Page 5

RAID IN DUBLIN.

OFFICIAL'S HOUSE FIRED. SEVEN REBELS EXECUTED. CAPTURED IN A DUGOUT. (By Cable. -Tress Association.—Copyright.) riiecelvcil 11 a.m.i LONDON. December I!). , Seven men who were captured in a ; rebel dugout in Kildare last uec-k. were executed in Portubello barrai kg. Dublin.! to-day. Armed men set fire to the home of Mr. Cordon Campbell, a son of Lord Clell-' avy. in Dublin, to-day. The raiders knocked at. the front door and asked to see .Mrs. Campbell, whom they ordered to remove her children, as they were ill- ' strueted to lire the nlace. Mr. Campbell ] issisted his wife w> remove the children, after "Inch the incendiaries sprin- ! kled the rooms with paraflin and set lire to the house. Kour rooms were ablaze when the lire brigade i-rrived. 'ITiey succeeded ill the remainder, but the lurnitur-' and most of the littinjfs were destroyed. Mr. Cainpbpll was an ollicial of the Ministry of Labour, and J helped to adjust hundred* of disputes in I the last few years. I Two bombs were thrown at the office of the "Irish Independent." but no dam age was caused.- (A. and N.Z. Cable.) FIRST BILL FOR 123 YEARS. A TECHNICAL MEASURE. rnecelverl \.Tfi p.m.i ] LONDON. December 10. The lirst Irish Parliament Act for 1 -it years passed the Senate at Dublin, beiny lii teehiiical measure entitled the Adaptation Knartmcnt'Hill. —(A. and X.Z.I DE VALERA IN DUBLIN. ESCAPES IN A CROWD. LONDON. December 1!>. j De Valera attended Ma-s in the I fashionable fiiiver-ity Cliuivli. in si. steplii-n'r. Cm-ii. Duliliu. on Sunday, lie was recognised by those near him. bill only three dared to leave Ma - to warn the' l-'ree State h--ad;, uirters. Frei! Stati'troops arrived just afier the (onjtrepatii v had poured out of the church, and de Valeni had weaned in tii? crowd. It is generally believed llm. Ay Valera has been deposed from th- leadership t>l the republicans, Scottish Sinn l-'cin Club- Imve decided to BU|-port the Krec Stale I iuvcrnniollt and to form an Irish Kxile League of Britain. i Mr. W. T. I osijnive. in a message i« I the clubs, slated: "Ireland feels I lull she can count upon the moral support of her children in Scot lan,l ill the present task of combatin» internal faction and restoring peace.'"- I A. and N.Z. Ciil.lc).

A FATAL MISTAKE. T.OXDOX, December 10. ■ Patrick U.irtin. a Loyalist, seeing a man with a revolver, took it from him. A little Inter a party of Krcr State soldiers passed in a motor ear. Martin ran towards th.-ni waving the revolver with the object of giving it up. The troops mistook bis action and riddled Martin with machine pun bullets.--(A. and X.Z. (able.)