IRISH TRUCE REFUSED

Dominion, Volume 16, Issue 122, 8 February 1923, Page 7

IRISH TRUCE REFUSED

ALSO COMMUTATION OF DEATH SENTENCES

EXECUTIONS WILL STOP WHEN OUTRAGES CEASE REPLY TO TRALEE COUNCIL BY TRLEGRAPH—PRBSS. ASSOCIATION. —Copyright. London, February 6. General Duly, replying to the Tralee District Council’s request for a truce and the commutation of the death sentence on five Kerry men, said that it would be unjust to the heroic railwaymen who gave their lives in order to carry food to Tralee, if they asked the Government to stay its hand. Executions would stop when train-wrecking, murder, arson, and robbery ceased. If the people at a free election voted in favour of a truce with murderers and train-wreckers, ho would cease to serve the people of Ireland.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. CAMPAIGN OF INCENDIARISM TWO HOUSES BURNED DOWN London, February 5. The County Wicklow residence jof Colonel Eustace Maude, who is in Ceylon, was burned down by armed men. Mrs. Maude and the household looked on covered by the rifles of the raiders. Ballygassan House, the residence of Mr. Russell, Sub-Sheriff of County Louth, was also burned down by armed men, who described the action as a reprisal for the executions by the Government, of which Russell was an official.—Reuter. KINEMA OFFICES DESTROYED SEVERAL GIRLS BURNED London, February 6. Incendiaries at Dublin burned Path© Frere’s kinema offices in Abbey Street, presumably in consequence of the exhibition of a film of the Irish Air Force. Four armed men sprinkled the premises with petrol. Girls, screaming, ran downstairs. Some were burned before the street was reached. The whole building was soon a roaring furnace. An explosion, evidently of a bomb, occurred as the employees reached tho street, injuring five and also two passers-by. Rebels, turning out the occupants in a raid on the Nenagh Workhouse, sprinkled petrol on tho building, set it afire, and burned it down.—Aus.N.Z. Cable Assn. (Rec. February 7, 10.25 p.m.) London, February 6. Tlie explosion at the Pathe film premises in Dublin was due to a million feet of film stored in the premises, estimated to be worth £23,000. The whole damage is £40,000. —Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. VILLAGE ATTACKED AND PLUNDERED THREE CIVILIANS KILLED (Rec. February 7, 8.5 p.m.) London, February 7. Fifty armed men attacked with ma-chine-guns the village of Ballyconnell, having a population of 600 inhabitants. They Voted tho village and practically blew it to pieces. Three civilians were killed and tho banks were plundered. Tho attack was a reprisal for the shooting of a rebel in the village a fortnight ago.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. STRIKERS SEIZE CORK MILLS RED FLAG RAISED London, February 6. Strikers in Cork mills seized two of the mills, over which they raised the red flag. They propose to resume work immediately. They states that they will sell bread at cost price, and guarantee payment for raw material used during the occupation of the mills, and also the cost of light, coal, and the use of the machinery. They feel-they are morally justified in taking this action. Strikers in the egg-packing trade destroyed a lorry containing eggs and fowls belonging to their employer.— Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.