IRELAND

Evening Star, Issue 18254, 19 April 1923, Page 6

IRELAND

ROUNDING UP REBELS. MORE IMPORTANT CAPTURES. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, April 18. Tlio Free State troops aro maintaining a continuous search for De Valera ana other Irregulars who escaped 'after tho engagement in the Clonmel Mountains (between Waterford and Tipperary), in which Liam Lynch was wounded. Besides Breen, they captured two other rebels, Donoon and Walsho. General Front’s forces arc combing out the whole district. O’Connell and Dalton, two notable Irregulars, wore captured in Powerstown. Breen, tho Irregular leader, was clad only in a shirt when captured. The others wero partly dressed. They were surprised in a dug-out, and were captured without fighting. They had rifles, bombs, and ammunition with them, AT BAY IN TRAP. FIGHT IN CASTLE RUIN'S. LONDON, April 18. The’ Daily Chroniclos’s ’ Dublin correspondent says that a secret chamber under the ruins of Castlebrako Castle, near Gashcl (Co. Tipperary), was tho scene of a romantic fight with rebels, who were trapped in their hiding placo. Previous searches had been made among the ruins, ns they were known to have been a retreat for fugitive insurgents. When a force of National troops again approached tho ruins an Irregular named Cleary came out and surrendered. Lieutenants Kennedy and Moran, with a number of Free Staters, then entered. No one was visible, and a challenge to surrender was unanswered, so they fixed three shots from a revolver into a partition, which was then found to ho tho camouflaged side of a secret room. Lieutenant Moran commenced battering the partition, when a Mills bomb was thrown into the middle of tho invading party from tho Secret chamber, arid many of tho Nationalists wore serioufly wounded. Lieutenant Kennedy cried; ‘'l’m done, lads. You cany on.” Lieutenant Moran also was badly wounded. The rest of tho Nationalists, however, rushed tho secret chamber and shot dead two Irregulars Tho leaders, Somers and English, who were Lying to escape, and a number of other rebcln and important documents, were captured.—A. and N.Z. Cable. FREE STATE , S~STATUS. , GENEVA, April 18. (Received April 19, at 11.85 a.m.) The Council of tho League of Nations decided to invite the Irish Free' State to attend the International Customs Conference, to he held on October 15. A. and N.Z. Cable. BREEN’S HISTORY. A DEADLY GUNMAN. LONDON, April 18. (Received April 19, at 11.45 a.m.) Tho capture of Breen has put the last important militant Republican out of tho way. His dramatic arrest stirred Dublin, which now sees tho dawn of peace. It is doubtful if Breen’s clover hiding placo would have been discovered had it not been for the carelessness of leaving empty cigarette boxes on tho ground. ' Breen was the deadliest gunman in Ireland. Ho was famous for his ability to shoot accurately with either hand. He shot two British officers in Dublin at the height of tho trouble, and has led tho Irregulars guerrilla warfare ever since. Before joining the_ rebels he pursued tho peaceful calling of trackman on tho railways. He _ used to walk in front of engines carrying a red flag.—A. and N.Z. Cable.

ENVOY IN U.S. DEAD,

WASHINGTON, April 18

Laurence Vinncll, tho self-styled De Valera party envoy in the United States, has died from natural causes.— Reuter.