IRELAND

Evening Star, Issue 18031, 27 July 1922, Page 4

IRELAND

FREE STATE MINISTER RESIGNS,

Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright.

LONDON, July 26. . Mr Cavan Duffy, Minister of Foreign Affairs, has resigned. He agrees regarding tho Free State military policy, but dissents in other respects.—A. and N.Z7 Cable. NATIONAL COMMANDER’S OPERATIONS. DE VALERA REAPPEARS. LONDON, July 25. Tho who "were driven from | Limerick have made Fermoy their headquartera The Free Staters are marching thither, sweeping aside detached rebel' hands en route.. Their attack on Cork is imminent. Free Staters operating from Claremoms, County Mayo, occupied! Castlebar, fourteen miles distant to the north-west, without a shot being fired. The rebels set fire to a number of buildings before evacuating the town. •

Tho rebels captured and) burnt Eyrecourt Barracks, County Galway, after a stubborn resistance by a garrison oi eight Free Sbatera, who were taken prisoner. Mr De Valera was with the rebels in Tipperary on Sunday. He has now gone to Oashei.—A. and N.Z. Cable.

REBELS ATTACK TRAIN.

i FIERCE FIGHT,

LONDON, July 25,

Fifty Irregulars at Lillurin, County Wexford, ambushed a train containing prisoners escorted by Nationals. Two,coaches contained Nationals, and the prisoners were locked in a third, tho remaining coaches being crowded with civilians. Shortly after the train emerged from a tunnel two shots rang out. Tho train immediately stopped, and a hail of fire was directed upon it from the heights on both sides of tho line. The troops jumped)’through tho windows and charged, courageously pursuing tho rebels up the hills. Two Nationals were killed and seven wounded. Seven rebels were woundted. Tho engine driver was arrested. The passengers were panic-stricken, particularly the women and children, who threw themselves at full length upon the floors of tho carriages. The fight lasted three-quarters of an hour, tho firing being continuous. The Free' Staters, despite their disadvantage, due to the unexpectedness of the attack and their exposed position, never wavered under the rain of lead. 'Hie Irregulars had selected good cover. Bullet® penetrated tho carriage windows, and the floors wore strewn with broken glasa When tho train arrived at Dublin snipers on the roofs of buildings launched another attack, aided by rebels among the crowd on the station platform.—A. and) N.Z. Cable. FOUR COURTS AREA. LONDON, July 25. Snipers were busy in the Four Courts area during tho night, and there was much rifle, revolver, and machine-gun activity. Tho Nationalists’ successes in the country continue, Tho Irregulars are everywhere in headlong flight.—A and N.Z. Cable,