ULSTER BOUNDARY.

Auckland Star, Volume LIII, Issue 308, 29 December 1922, Page 5

ULSTER BOUNDARY.

AGREEMENT NOT LIKELY.

COMMISSION TO DECIDE

FREE STATE ARMY'S LOYALTY.

(By Cable.—Press Association.-Copyright.)

(Received 10.30 a.m.)

LONDON, December 2S.

\ cry little hope is now entertained of a mutual Government agreement us to the Irish northern boundary line. A commission sits in London at the New > ear. The -Daily Mail" says that there have been rumours, which are indignantly repelled by the authorities, that some section* of the Free State Army are not over-loyel to the Free Stnte/aiid have been undermined by rebel propaganda Whatever the facts are. there have recently been cases of whole garrisons of National troops being captured, under suspicious circumstances, by rebel raiding columns. The difficulties of the Free State (lovernment through lawlessness in Ireland are likely to be increased by ;i general strike of railway workers" threatened on Sunday at midnight. Tiie men object to a flat rate reduction of 3A> a week. The Ulster Government has notified the Free Stato that it will not permit the latter in the railway nationalisation scheme to interfere with the portions of the Irish railways operating in the Northern Territory.—(United Service.) LAWLESSNESS IN DUBLIN. POSTMAN HELD UP. {.Received 11.30 n.ui.l LONDON. December 25.~ Armed men held up a Dublin postman and extracted a cheque for £16 from his mailbag. They marched the postman to a public-house under threat of shooting him, and compelled him to forge the payee's name and present the cheque. They then took the postman to a suburb. where they gave him €2 and decamped. Eighty-six irregulars have been released from Galway gaol on an undertaking to relinquish fighting against the Free State.—(A. and NX Cable.)