GUERRILLA WARFARE

Evening Star, Issue 18030, 26 July 1922, Page 4

GUERRILLA WARFARE

REBELS RETREAT TO CORK.

Press Association— By Telegraph—Copyright,

■ LONDON, July 24. Driven from one place to another, the rebels are falling back on Cork, . hotly pursued by General O’Duffy’s forces, which are now within striking distance. The rebels in the West are also retreating before a steady, well-planned advance.

The retreating rebels are making pursuit difficult by blowing up bridges and blocking the roads in Cork. The rebel leaders are having great trouble in preventing their followers, who are tired of the rebellion, from leaving the country. Parties of rebels board all vessels railing for" Liverpool and seize any deserters •found aboard.—A. and N.Z. Cable.

WATERFORD AND LIMERICK,

LONDON, July 24.

Business has been fully resumed in Waterford and Limerick, but tire country surrounding the latter is disturbed and infested with roving, raiding (bands of rebels, who aro billeting themselves in farmhouses.—A. and N.Z. Cable.

A DUBLIN OUTEAGE. LONDON, July 24. ( In Dublin armed raiders shot dead two men and critically wounded others who attempted to prevent them from looting a public-house in the vicinity of Phoenix Park. The murderers escaped with £93. —A. and N.Z. Cable.