IRISH REBELLION

Evening Star, Issue 18044, 11 August 1922, Page 4

IRISH REBELLION

CLOSING m ON COM, SUBSTANTIAL PROGRESS. Press Association- -By Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, August 10. The■ Free Staters are Sported l« have landed at two points near Cork and at Cork. ; . . Owing to the intensity of the sniping between Cork and Queenstown, the Admiralty lias issued a warning that it is undesirable to clear vessels for Cork. The rebels threatened to treat as combatants all railwayman assisting in the transportation of Dree State_ troops. The rebels have been driven out of Abbeyfenle and Drumcollogher, their last strongholds in Limerick. The ‘Daily Telegraph's’ Dublin correspondent reports that the Free State army is making good progress in Southern Ireland, carrying out movements which are expected to end the rebels’ resistance in a few da vs. Dublin reports that the Dree Staters have entered Cork City.—A. and N.Z. Cable. REBELS SURPRISED. LONDON, August 10. (Received August 11, at 10 a.m.) Irregulars, waiting in ambush, at Balliua (Tipperary), were surprised by a sudden bombardment, and tied to the mountains, leaving ten of tnoiv leaders and .eight of their men in the Nationalists’ hands.—Renter. LABOR CONTEMPLATES TAKING ACTION. LONDON, August 10. (Received: August 11, at 10 a.m.) The Irish Trade Union Congress unanimously decided) that if Dail Eircann is not convoked before August 22 as a step preliminary to ending the present fratricidal strife, the Labor deputies will meet their constituencies and resign.—Reuter.