NO MERE ACCIDENT

Evening Post, Volume CIV, Issue 50, 28 August 1922, Page 7

NO MERE ACCIDENT

THE DEATH OF MR. COLLINS

REBELS IN AN UGLY MOOD.

• LONDON, 2Sth August. It is now believed that the. death of Mr. Michael: Collins was no mere accident, but was carefully planned, and that when the rebels failed to kill him by means of direct onslaught they lay low until he began to move about, and he was then picked out by a sniper, A number of- Cork rebels, horrorstricken at Mr. Collins'* end, have thrown down their arms, but the majority are still in. an ugly mood. Some still gloat over, his death.

Anew rebel attack in the north is feared. De Valera is reported to have appeared in. Dundslk. His presence there synchronises with reports of a fresh blow which the rebels are planning against < Dublin. Mr., Mulcahy, backed by the Provisional Government, proposes to adopt stronger tactics in dealing with the rebels' guerrilla warfare, and the Dail Ehreann has been invited to approve these when, it meet*. It is Considered certain thai Mr. Cosgrkve will go to London shortly to confer with British Ministers.

Many telegraph' and telephone -wires in County Dublin have been.cut. Errigal House, a handsome mansion, has been destroyed by fire.

Government troops carried out an extensive a weep in County Limerick, and drove the'rebels from Ctlenstal'- Castle, inflicting casualties and taking many' prisoners.