IRELAND

Evening Star, Issue 17958, 3 May 1922, Page 4

IRELAND

h HOUSE DIVIDED. ’APPEAL BY LEADERS. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright, LONDON. May I. An interesting document has been issued. It is signed by representatives of tho Regulars, including Mr Collins, and tlio irregular section of tho - Irish Army, appealing for the closing of the ranks to avoid a conflict. Tho unification of the • forces is suggested on the basis of tho • acknowledgment of the Majority Irish to accept the treaty. _ Mr De Valera has simultaneously issued a statement that Mr Griffith’s proposal for : a peace conference involved the acceptance ■ of partition. Mr Do Valera’s proposal was that tho. treaty should be referred to the people at tho expiration of six months, during which the army would ha unified ; and that the,' Bail Eire arm- should be kept in session and tho adult passed. There were certain rights which tlio minority were justified in defending by force of arms. —A. and N.Z. Cable. IRREGULARS INVADE KILKENNY. FREE STATERS ACTIVE. REPUBLICAN POSITIONS SEIZED. LONDON, May 2. (Received May 3, at 8.50 a.m.) Early to-day large forces of Irregulars invaded Kilkenny city. They occupied nil tho strategic positions and' took numerous buildings/including Kilkenny Castle, tho City Hall, tho Bank of Ireland', and the Cathedral Workhouse, using tho last as headquarters. The Free State troops seized all the. Republican positions in Galway, including the barracks and Government offices. Tho opposition was slight. Irregulars in Kinuegad (Westmeath) and Greensbridg© surrendered their barracks under a threat of attack by the Free Staters, who cheered' on taking possession. —A. and 1 N.Z. Cable. POSTMAN MURDERED. SON SERIOUSLY INJURED. LONDON, May 2. (Received May 3, at 8.50 a.m.) Tho police found a postman’s body riddled with bullets in Kcad'y (Armagh). His son, aged sixteen, was also shot, and is in a critical condition.—A. and N.Z. Cable. MYSTERIOUS MOVEMENTS. LONDON, May Z Tho latest reports from Dublin indicate that intense preparations are being made for some unknown objective. Railway and road communication in some places is out off. Trains' from. Tipperary and Thurlcs were held up amidst scenes of tho greatest excitement. Roads in tho vicinity of BMlybrophy, Templemorc, and Clonmel wore blocked.' Two mansions at Castlebar and Roxborongh were seized and the owners evicted.—A. and N.Z. Cable. SENSATIONAL BANK ROBBERIES. OVER £60,000 STOLEN. LONDON, May 2. Armed irregulars, with a motor lorry, drew up in front of tlio Bank of Ireland at Mitchclstown. and demanded all the money’s. The officials handed over £10,009. The leader gave a receipt and drove off. Armed men also raided banks sit Ennis, Westport, Sligo, Ballinrobc, and Claremont, and bold up tlio staffs and carried off in motor cars sums aggregating over £20,000. The railway between Cavrick-cn-Suir (Waterford) was torn up and the roads in tho same district trenched and blocked by trees. Except for tho assassinations, the bank robberies have been the most sensational incidents since the inception of the rebellion. Alone (hail £60,000 had been carried off, including £14,000 from Eligo, £IO,OOO from Wexford, £I,OOO from Ballinrobc, and £5,509 from Limerick. The gums 1 stolen at Ennis, Waterford, Tralee, and Mallow are all' considerable, but the amount ■ is not staled. Onlv one case of violence occurred, when Garner, a bank agent at Westport, re- ’ fiisted tho robbers. Mutineers havo seized tho offices of the Dublin Port Lock Hoard, which commands the O'Connell Bridge.—A. and N.Z. Cable. PROTESTANT REEUGEES. "ToNDON, A fay 2. Protestant refugees from County Cork are arriving in Belfast.- —A. and N.Z. Cable.