IRISH REBELLION

Evening Star, Issue 18046, 14 August 1922, Page 4

IRISH REBELLION

CAPTURE OF CORK.

POPULACE WELCOME NATIONALISTS.

Press Association —By Telegraph—Copyright.

LONDON, August 12. Tho Free Stators have captured Cork. Some of the chief buildings are burning. _ An official statement says that the residents ol Cork gave the Nationalist troops a tremendous reception. The retreating Irregulars burned six barracks and three bridges. Six Irregulars were killed and. twenty were wounded. , .. . A later message states that the N ationalists took fifty prisoners at Cork, seven Nationalists were killed and many were wounded. —A. and N.Z. Cable. FALL OF CLONMEL, LONDON, August 12. Tho Free Staters captured Clonmel (Tinnc ra ry -Walo rfor d border) after the inhabitants had had-a month’s terrifying experiences under tho Republicans, who fled to the Waterford hills when the Free Staters advanced from the north, j-hreo bridges were damaged by mines, and the barracks was burned before the rebels left 5e town.-A. and N.Z. Cable. REBELS RAID IN DUBLIN. LONDON, August 12. Twenty Irregulars overpowerd the guard at tho Dublin Post Office, poured petrol about the telegraph instrument in tho room, and set fire to it. ihe fire brigade extinguished l the flames after the rebels’ departure. The damage was inconsiderable. . A later official message states that tne Irregulars entered the Dublin Post Office at midnight on Friday and obtained possession of the buildings. They smashed- some of the instruments. Nationalist troops drove them out two hours later.—A. and N.Z. Cable.

HORRIBLE IF TRUE

LONDON, August 12,

It is reported that tlie rebels''shot a Lad of seventeen at Clonmel in a most callous manner. They had previously raided the lad’s father’s house and shot his sister, aged sixteen. As the lad knew of the murder, the rebels arrested and tortured him until ho went mad. They even made him dig his own grave, and then placed the fortunate boy in a sack and riddled him with bullets.—‘Times.' CORK FAIRWAY. NOT COMPLETELY BLOCKED. LONDON, August 12.

The Admiralty received a wireless from Queenstown reporting that the rebels, after the steamer Gorilla had completed unloading, ordered her removal from the wharf, and they sank her in the fairway of Lough Ma-hin. Nevertheless, the fairway is not completely blocked.—A. and N.Z. Cable.

COST OF CIVIL WAR.

LONDON, August 13,

(Received August 14, at 9.45 a.m.) ‘ The Times ’ states that the claims against tho Irish Government for loss and damage in connection with the Civil War exceed £7,000,000.—A. and N.Z. Cable.