REBEL REIGN OF TERROR

Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 26, 31 January 1923, Page 5

REBEL REIGN OF TERROR

HOW, GIRLS ASSIST GUNMEN

REVOLVERS UNDER THEIR

SKIRTS.

(UNITSB PRIBS A3SOCIATION.—COPTRI«BT.)

(AWHSALIAH -mm ZEALAND CAKE ASSOCIATION.)

(Eeceived 31st January, 10 a.m.

LONDON, 30th January.

The "Daily Express's" Cork correspondent says:' "Terror holds increased sway in Cork. The rebels in many rural district^ practically dictate terms to the populace. The recent executions have disturbed the district. Some public bodies have shown Republican sympathies by motions of sympathy with the relatives of the executed men. Post-office raids are of daity occurrence.

"A number of peaceable and influential citizens have been held up, beaten, robbed, and left half dead on the roadside. The theatre and cinema proprietors are between the devil and the deep sea. The Rebels have ordered all to close on every execution day; the Free State says they must be kept open. The dockers and carters are striking in thousands. Others are unemployed. /

"Girls are playing an increasing part in the gunmen's campaign. Each gunman is accompanied by a girl carrying revolvers under her skirts. When the moment for action arrives, she hands over the weapons and receives the same back immediately after firing and walks quietly away, while the gunman is searched.

"The railway to Croeshaven was almost entirely destroyed this week-end, as the result of the simultaneous burning of nearly every station. The Rebels are now concentrating on the Youghal line."