IRISH REBELLION

Evening Star, Issue 18045, 12 August 1922, Page 4

IRISH REBELLION

INVESHEHT OF CORK. REBEL ARMY RETREATING. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, August 10. Tho telegraph and telephone wires arc still cut, and tho position in Cork is obscure, Apparently fighting continued after tho rebels had set fire to buildings, including Admiralty House, the naval hospital, and the offices of tho newspapers (tho Cork ‘Examiner’ and the Cork ‘Constitution’). Tho fires made a big blaze in several quarters of tho city. The rebels constructed a boom across the_ harbor in order to prevent shipping entering. They commandeered two hoppers, which they armed with machine-guns, but they failed to impede the surprise landings. The whole rebel army is now retreating to the mountainous districts in the south-west.-A. and N.Z. Cable. FREE STATE TACTICS. A SURPRIsiTEFFECTED. LONDON, August 10. The simultaneous landing of Nationalists at Cork, Youglral, and Ban try was one of tho most daring coups of the campaign. Four ships, carrying 1,500 troops and artillery, voyaged from Dublin to the landings 'and practically hemmed in tho main body of the rebels, who were compelled to fight or disperse to tho hills in small parties.—Reuter. REBELS SEIZE CABLE STATIONS. A SERIOUS BLOCK. LONDON, August 10. The cable companies declare, that the hold-up in cable communications is duo to the rebels’ seizure of stations. The holdiiD is the worst in history, as only six out of fifteen lines between Britain and America are working. There is a prospect of indefinite delays. . The rebels still hold the Clitdcn wireless station. —‘Times.’