AFFAIRS IN IRELAND.

Press, Volume LVIII, Issue 17646, 26 December 1922, Page 9

AFFAIRS IN IRELAND.

REBELS' CAMPAIGN OF DESTRUCTION. INCENDIARISM AND TRAIN WRECKING. (By (Vole—Prew Association —Copyright.) (Australian vui N.Z. C>lsl« Awociation.) LONDON, December 22. Tlie unoccupied residence of Mr Patrick Sheehan, Under-Secretary of the Home Office, in Dublin, was burnt by incendiaries who threw bombs through the windows. The irregulars continue their work of railway destruction, and are burning down signal boxes. Troops accompany all breakdown gangs carrying out repairs, and even the workers are armed with rifles in order to meet attacks. Repairs to a bridge near Dublin were carried out-under continual sniping, but no casualties were sustained. The train outrage by rebels near Dundalk was the most serious ever attempted. The raiders first held up the station staff at Castleballingham, and then a goods train was sent off without a driver. The train was soon wrecked and blocked both lines. Then the mail train was held up and set on fire, and was sent off. It ran into the wrecked goods train, and the whole mass blazed for several hours. The raiders cleared off after the collision. The damage amounts to many thousands and includes ali the passengers' luggage. [A previous message said rebel trainwreckera set fire to the Belfast-Dublin express near Dundalk. They compelled the passengers'to alight, sprinkled the carriages with petrol, switched the train down the line, and Bent it full speod ahead. A Free State munitions train collided with the burning train, the engines and leading waggons of which were overturned. The wreckers cut off all communication with Dublin- A large Christmas mail from Ulster to Britain was destroyed with the express. It was reported that seven railwaymen and postal officers were missing since the outrage.] CURFEW IN ULSTER. CARDINAL LOGUE'S DEFIANCE. LONDON, December 23. Cardinal Logue, Catholic Primate of Ireland, has announced his intention of celebrating Mass on Christmas Eve in Armagh Cathedral, thereby'defying the Ulster Government's curfew regulations, i It is stated that the police will arrest those who attend the MaBS.