DISTRESS IN IRELAND

Evening Star, Issue 18052, 21 August 1922, Page 4

DISTRESS IN IRELAND

ISOLATION AND STARVATION.

SNIPING IN DUBLIN. SIR HENRY WILSON’S BIRTHPLACE BURNED. IMPATIENT LABOR POLITICIANS. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, August 18. Ninety minutes of lively shooting occurred this morning at the Beggar’s Bush Barracks between Irregulars, who attacked! from tho housetops, railway line, and other positions, and the National troops who were stationed in the barracks. No serious casualties have been reported. August 19. Dublin was disturbed at night by heavy firing and intermittent explosions. Rebel snipers and machine gunners were active in all parts. Free State troops patrolled the streets and sentries were posted in tho principal thoroughfares. To-day the Government warned! the residents to remain indoors, as an Organised rebel attack on tho city was believed to be .imminent. Pitiable conditions prevail in Kerry as tho result of the wholesale destruction of the railways and bridges by the rebels. Foodstuffs "are scarce, and as fresh supplies cannot bo transported, many people are threatened with starvation.

Irregulars entered Monaghan town, carried of! £6,000 from the local banks, and shot a postman dead. The rebels have blown up a triple-arch bridge on the Great Southern Railway, cutting connection Between Tralee and Killarncy. Rebels burnt Curry Grano House, m County Longford, the birthplace of tho lato Field-Marshal Sir Henry Wilson. Tho Northern Government has forbidden tho Irish Catholic newspaper to circulate in Ulster for a month,_ owing to its attacks on the Ulster judiciary. Tho ‘Morning Post’s’ Dublin correspondent states that tho Labor members are impatient at tho postponed meeting of the Irish Parliament, and threaten to resign their seats if Parliament does not meet on August 26.—A. and N.Z. Cable.