REPUBLICAN CLAIMS

Evening Star, Issue 18020, 14 July 1922, Page 4

REPUBLICAN CLAIMS

LAKE AKA CONTROLLED.

CORK INCLUDED.

Press Association—(By Telegraph—’Copyright.

LONDON, July 12,

Tho Republicans officially claim possession of tho entire countryside from Kerry to Nowtownbamy, in County Wexford, and from Kerry to County Mayo. They are operating nil -the post offices and collecting excise Customs and duties at tho rate of £12,000 weekly. They are also in complete control of the city of Cork, where tho Republic is an accepted fact and life is proceeding on normal lines. The Free State officers in Limerick refuse to fight tho Republicans.—-A. and N.Z. Cable.

FREE STATE POST CAPTURED

LONDON, July 13, (Received- July 14, at 9.5 a.m.)

A Cork Republican communique states that a Free State post was captured near Clonmel (Tipperary border). BrigadierGenerals Hayes and Connolly were taken prisoner.—A. and N.Z. Cable.

IRISH WAR COUNCIL,

LONDON, July 13, (Received July 14, at 8.65 a.m.)

Mr Collins has been appointed Com-mander-in-Chief of tho army. He and Mr Mulcaby, tbo Minister of Defence, and three others will constitute the Supremo Irish War Council.-»-A. and N.Z. Cable.

DE VALERA IN ECLIPSE,

LONDON, July 13, (Received July 14, at 8.55 -a.m.)

Do Valera has been missing for moro than a week. The Free State Government does not regard him as a fighting rebel. Ministers say that ho is a bankrupt statesman and still undischarged.—A. and N.Z, Gable.

FREE STATE OPERATIONS,

LONDON, July 13. (Received July 14, at 8.55 a.m.)

The National forces are sweeping ahead in the West of Ireland. Tho Irregulars have been driven out of the town of Galway, leaving large quantities of equipment and munitions. Tire Irregulars made elaborate preparations for the siege of Wexford, New Ross, and Gowry, but they evacuated them before tho Nationalist troops arrived I . —A. and N.Z. Cable.

ORANGE CELEBRATIONS,

DECLARATION OP LOYALTY.

LONDON, July 12,

At Belfast the Battle of the Boyne was celebrated. Fifty thousand Orangemen, with bands and banners, went in procession through the city. One hundred thousand demonstrated later at, Ballylesson. Police troops and great numbers of armored cars were stationed at danger points. Sir James Craig, addressing a gathering, told the Loyalists throughout the world that the present crisis involved them in it, because Ulster’s patriotism was immovable. The. enemies of Britain could not shift the rode on which the Empire was founded. Ulster’s cause was the cause of all Loyalists in the dominions and in all parts of tho world. Attempts had been, made by assassinations and burnings to overthrow (them, but all had failed, and they always would fail—A. and N.Z. Gable. FREE STATE PARLIAMENT. LONDON, July 13. The reopening of the Eire State Parliament has been postponed for fourteen days owing to the number of members being on service.—A. and N.Zi Cable.