WAR IN IRELAND

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XII, Issue 241, 25 September 1922, Page 5

WAR IN IRELAND

Bloodshed Continues REBEL LEADERS KILLED. BRIGANDAGE RAMPANT. [By Cable.—Press Association.—Copyright.] London. Sept. 22. Brigadier Devins, an anti-treaty member in the Dail Eireann, Professor Mac Neill’s son Brian and four other rebels were killed in a battle with Free Staters in the Sligo mountains. Mac Neill’s brothers are nerving in the Free State army. All the telegraph and telephone wires and railway lines in County Kerry have been destroyed by the Irregulars, who concentrated most of their forces in the mountains and are carrying on operations with renewed activity daily. The Free Staters are hampered by broken bridges and barricaded roads and are constantly um z bushed from the mountain tops. A strong force is required to dislodge tho Irregulars. Tha plight of The civil population is serious. Brigandage is rampant. Hundreds of families are workless and on the verge of starvatiop. The object of the Irregulars seems to be to starve the people into submission Mr. Cosgrave informed Parliament that compensation for property damaged since the truce amounts to between £20,000,000 and £30.000,000. Parliament adopted a resolution accepting the principle that local authorities fie responsible for compensation for damage done from a future undefined date.—(A. and N.Z.) OUTRAGES AND AMBUSHES. (Received 25. 9.20 a.m.) London, Sept. 23. Armed men held up a passenger train at Bansha, from Tipperary, Bmashed the carriages, sprinkled petr«d and set them on fire. Elsewhere rdils were torn up and culverts and bridges damaged. Irregulars raided the Grand Canal boats and looted tho property. Numerous amhushes occurred in Cork County. Free Staters claim they killed seven Irregulars.—(A. and N.Z.)

prisoned. The Soviet did not think of them till to-day, when it officially demanded their immediate release, alleging that the imprisonment was a breach of the pact of non-aggression concluded at Genoa and stating that Russia regarded this as reason ior attack. Roumanian political circles are very disturbed regarding this demand as a sign that Russia intends, with Kemal, to attack Europe.—(A. and N.Z.) CREEK ARMY REMNANT DEMORALISED. CLAMOURING FOR DEMOBILISATION. Rodosto, Sept. 23. The Greek Commander-in-Chief has arrived from Smyrna. The remains of the third corps from Brussa is>till disembarking. The fourth army of 50,(XX) may be ordered to co-operate with the British in the defence of the neutral Dardanelles, but the troops are' demonstrating in the streets, clamouring for demobilisation. The city is packed with refugees. A number of local Turkish notables have been arrested as hostages.—(A. and N.Z.) POLITICAL PLOT AT ATHENS. Athens, Sept. 24. A Venizelist plot has been discovered and many arrests made. M. Grivas, who was Under-Secretary of State in the Venizelist Cabinet, was among those arrested charged with plotting against- the present regime.—(A. and BULGARIAN ATTITUDE. PREMIER FAVOURS LEAGUE OF NATIONS. Sofia, Sept. 22. M. Stamboliski (Bulgarian Premier) suggests that Eastern and Western Thrace should lie an autonomous State under the league of Nations, thus guaranteeing Bulgaria access* to the Aegean, permitting a special arrangement for Adrianople, avoiding a common frontier between Turkey and Bulgaria. and ensuring neutrality of the Dardanelles.—(A. and N.Z.) HIDDEN WAR MUNITIONS. London, Sept. 22. Maior Neate. of the Allied Commission in Bulgaria, in company with a French officer, discovered a cellar in which 50.000 shells were believed to be concealed. Four gendarmes arrested and detained him for several hours at an hotel, where he heard many lorries passing, presumably removing the shells. Apologies have been made. —(“Times.”' FRENCH NOTE. DISBANDMENT OF REVOLUTIONARY GROUPS. Belgrade. Sept. 22. 'Flic French president of the InterAllied Liquidation Commission has sent a Note to the Bulgarian Government demanding the dispersal of the South Bulgarian friendly societies, alleging that they are merely revolutionary organisations against Macedonia. The Note enraged the Bulgarians, who are supporting Macedonian campaign. They express dissatisfaction with France’s attitude. —(A. and AMERICA’S DEFAULT. IN THE OF HUMANITY. CHURCHES APPEAL FOR ACTION. New York. Sent. 23. The Federal Council of Churches embracing numerous denominations, has telegraphed President Harding, Mr. C. E. Ruches and Senator Lodge, asking them to use all means to secure the immediate establishment of peace in Asia Minor and to prevent Turkish atrocities. Sunday will be observed thoughout the country as a day of nrayer for the peoples of the Near East, also that tfie United States asMime its share of responsibility there. —(A. and N.Z.) CANADA’S POLICY OF DELAY. CONDEMNED BY EX-PREMIER. Ottawa. Sept. 82 Ex-Premier Meighen. in a speech at Toronto, assailed hoe Government’s delay in replying to Britain’s request for a statement of policy regarding Mie Near East and contrasting with U the prompt response of New Zealand -Knd Australia. Mr. Meighen declared *hat a policy of delav might drag Canada into war. He pointed out ♦.hat Canada was a party to the Sevres Treatv and asserted that >’hat England wanted was the Dominion s declaration of Empire solidarityto meet Hie crisis. He would hack the King Government in rushing a message of 'oval co-operation. a« Australia and New Zealand had done.—(A. and V