IRISH REBELS LOSE HOPE

Dominion, Volume 16, Issue 174, 11 April 1923, Page 7

IRISH REBELS LOSE HOPE

BUT LEADERS DECIDE TO STRUGGLE ON WASTAGE BY CASUALTIES AND ARRESTS By telegraph.—Pbess Association. —Copyright. London, April 9. A number of documents captured from the rebels disclose an exchange of views between the rebel leaders in regard to the possibility of maintaining the struggle. The consensus of opinion is that it is utterly impossible to carry on another summer campaign, owing to the wastage by casualties and arrests. t Tho letters show that officers commanding in Cork, No. 3 district, and in Kerry, No. 1, declared that they soon would not have a man left. Most of the leaders, however, decided by ths narrowest majority, to struggle on, though there was no hopo of winning. Tho documents pointed out that the mon were giving way and that they were enduring severe hard-ships.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn,

THE PRESS THREATENED IF OPPOSITION TO REBELS NOT STOPPED fßec. April 10, 7.20 p.m.) London, April 10. The Irregulars have issued threatening notices upon the Dublin Press, also upon the London offices of the Irish newspapers, demanding that they cease inserting advertisements and articles opposed to the rebels. Tho notice concludes: “If further advertisements appear, drastic measures will be token without warning.” The letteto the London office of the “Freeman’s Journal” demands tho withdrawal. of photographs from tho windows showing “an Irregular force known as the National Army, also photographs of Ministers of the bogus Government for the part of,the Irish nation called the ‘lrish Free State.’ ”—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.