FIGHTING IN DUBLIN
BATTLE IN CENTRAL CITY AREA
DE VALERA REFUSES TO SURRENDER
HEAVY FIRE ON REBEL STRONGHOLDS
(UNITED' WESS ASSOCIATION.—CQmWHF.)
(iDSTIUHAJi ■ XEIT ZBALAKD CAILE ASSOCIATION.)
(Received July 3, 11.30 a.m.)
LONDON, 2nd July.
, A'Daily Express correspondent,' reporting by wireless, from a a steamer in Dublin Harbour on Sunday evening, says that a desperate battle is developing. Archbishop Byrne and the Lord Mayor visited Mr. de Valera at the Gfregham Hotel pn Sunday morning, and asked him to surrender. Mr. de Valera refused, and accordingly Mr. Collins ordered that the. attack on %? Sackvillerstreet area should be re-conjmenced. -Aheavy artillery bombardment followed. There'is fierce fighting in the centre of the city, where a block of buildings protected by a barricade of vehicles extends for three-quarters of a mile. Whit dpws are filled with mattresses. The various buildings are connected by tupnels. Rifle fire is continuous, and many land mines have been exploded. v De Valera's headquarters, the Gresham Hotel", is being bombarded. ■
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Evening Post, Volume CIV, Issue 2, 3 July 1922, Page 7
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161FIGHTING IN DUBLIN Evening Post, Volume CIV, Issue 2, 3 July 1922, Page 7
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