IRISH CIVIL WAR

Evening Star, Issue 18048, 16 August 1922, Page 6

IRISH CIVIL WAR

FIGHTING AT DUNDALK,

REBELS CONTROL COUNTY LOUTfI.

Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright,

LONDON, August 14. The Irish rebels again control County Louth. All telegraph lines are cut and many of the civilian population have fled. This is a sequel to the rebels’ swift and unexpected descent upon Dundalk and Drogheda. The Irregulars recaptured Dundalk only after severe fighting through force of numbers surrounding the town. They released prisoners from the gaol, took possession of all the public services, and commandeered trains to carry their forces to Drogheda, which was also seized. The destruction of a number of railway bridges prevented the Fra Staters sending reinforcements.

IRREGULARS USE MINES. LONDON, August 15. (Received August 16, at 12.10 p.m.) It is (dated that ten persons were killed and forty wounded when the Irregulars recaptured Dundalk. The dead are mostly Free Staters killed in an explosion of mines under the barracks,- which held 200 Free State troops. It is reported from Belfast that the viaduct over the River Bovno at Drogheda has been destroyed, meaning the indefinite suspension of the Belfast-Dublin railway service. Trains from Dublin are not running - beyond Drogheda, which,_ although surrounded, appears to be still in tin Nationals’ harms.

The Nationals have occupied Buttevant, where the Dublin Guards engaged 1 a party of Irregulars who were mining a road. The Irregulars decamped, leaving a motor car and a largo quantity of ■ explosives. The Nationals took eleven prisoners. The Nationals have occupied Killamey unopposed.—Reuter.