IRISH PEACE EFFORT.

Auckland Star, Volume LIV, Issue 58, 9 March 1923, Page 5

IRISH PEACE EFFORT.

OFFER BY ARCHBISHOP. MUNSIEE REBELS WAVER. TRICKS WITH LAND MINES. (By Cable.—Press Association.—Copyright.) LONDON, lla'cu 8. The rebel Commandant-General in Munster has agreed to submit to the rebril executive proposals made by the Archbishop of Cashel for the immediate cessation of hostilities and the surrender of arms. Munster rebels have "been long disposed toward peace, but hitherto they have been overruled by the rebels of Dublin, the Midlands, and the West.

Three officers and three volunteers belonging to the Free.State Army were blown to piecea by the explosion of a trap mine concealed in a dump in East Kerry. General CBaly, commandant of Kerry, has ordered that in future all mines and dumps shall be removed by rebel prisoners.

A detachment of Free State troops, when marching from Tralce to Killorglin, encountered a stone barricade on the road, in which was discovered a mine with a trigger release contrivance. The officer in charge returned to Tralee and brought out rebel prisonere, whom he ordered to remove the barricade The mine exploded, killing eight prisoners and wounding two officers. In a similar explosion at Countess Bridge four prisoners were killed.

The premises of the "Witness," a Belfast Presbyteii.-in par.fT. -.were destroyed by fire. —(A. and S.Z. Cable.)