COLLINS’S CLEARANCE

Evening Star, Issue 18054, 23 August 1922, Page 4

COLLINS’S CLEARANCE

IRISH REBELS DISPERSED. FREE STATE GOVERNMENT PREVAILS. Press Association—-By Telegraph—Copyright, LONDON, August 22. All semblance of open warfare between the Free Staters and the rebels has ended. From Donegal in the North to Cork in tho South every city and important township is in tho hands of the Government. Tho rebels are living the lives of bandits. They are conducting guerrilla warfare, and lie in ambush for tho Free -Staters. Mr Arthur O’Brien, head of the Selfdetermination League, who was arrested in Dublin three weeks ago while attending a funeral, has been released.—A. and N.Z. Cable. AMERICAN SUBSCRIPTIONS. LITIGATION OVER POSSESSION. NEW YORK, August 21. Mr Timothy Smiddy, representing Mr Michael Collins, obtained a Supremo Court injunction restraining the Dc Valorn faction from obtaining 2,500,000 dollars, representing moneys obtained from Irish sympathisers in the United States on bonds issued by tho Irish Republic. Mr Smiddy contended that the Irish Free State is a free Ireland, for which Irishmen have been fighting, and which is entitled to the funds, although the latter were raised on the bond of the republic. Ho asserted that if Mr Do Valera obtained the funds a further rebellion against the present Irish Government would result and needless bloodshed would continue. Tho view of the majority of the people in Ireland favored the English Treaty. Legal possession of the funds is vested in three trustees —Messrs De Valera, Fogarty, and O’Marn. Mr Fogarty (Mayor of Limerick) alone is an adherent of the Irish Free State. A settlement of the dispute will bo submitted to the local courts.—A. and N.Z, Cable. WEDDING PARTY AMBUSHED. LONDON, August 21. (Pveceived August 23, at 9.10 a.m.) TJye ‘Daily Mail’s’ Limerick correspondent states that- a romance of the Irish War has been disclosed. Colonel-com-mandant O’Neill, one of the best fighting men among the Free Staters, obtained marriage leave. While travelling with his fiancee to Roscrea for the wedding ceremony and when within eight of the church, motor cars ambushed tho party, who- were taken prisoners and -convoyed to rebel headquarters in the mountains. The women were released, but Colonel O’Neill was detained. A few days later his fiancee received a message, after which she war, taken to a farmhouse in the mountains and a priest performed the ceremonv. Her husband! is still a captive. —A. and N.Z. Cable. BERNARD SHAW'S SARCASM. REBEL LEADERS’ IDIOCY. LONDON, August 22. (Received August 25, at 10 a.m.) Mr Bernard Shaw, who ha-s returned from Ireland, says: “‘What matter if for Ireland dear wo fall?’ That is the rebel idiots’ battle song. Idiocy is sanctified by memories nf the time when there was really nothing to bo done for Irish freedom but die for it. The time has now come for Irishmen to learn, to live for their country, instead of which they have blown up bridges and burned homesteads and factories, gaining nothing therefrom. The cause of Ireland has always been dogged by ridicule, which wo have such a fatal gift of provoking and expressing. I -suppose it will have to be settled by another massacre of Irishmen by Irishmen. If Do Valera had any political genius he. might have averted it, but I cannot persuade myself that he has any. De Valera and Err,kino Childers had the choice of subduing the' country in the British fashion and coercing it into a republic, whether it wanted or did not want it, or of living like brigands. The leaders are now protending that they arc contending for a principle, while their followers are following brigandage."—A. and N.Z, Cable.