ENFORCING PEACE.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 1 August 1922, Page 5

ENFORCING PEACE.

IMPORTANT FREE STATES

SUCCESS

-BY GABLE—PEESS ASSOCIATION—COPYUiCiHl LONDON, July 30. News from Ireland's battletrout indicates that the Fre Staters are surely, if slowly, completing the task of enforcing peace. Ihe cost of success is, -aevertneiess, heavy, especially during the week-end, when they lost several oisefui officers, including Commandants JVlacOurtain and Clisseu, who were amAmshed near Maryborough while racing to the assistance of i<ibe Staters who ] ■were attacked by an overwhelming j iorce of rebels. Twenty-eight rebels | -captured possessed "duiii-dums" and i ■explosive ammunition. I An official bulletin states the Free f have captured an important iine along the Maigue River from Shannon to Charleville, making the rebel -stronghold at Kilmaliock untenable. ! 'The rebels are admittedly strongest in j "this area, and they mustered their best j :£ghting material. The Limerick comranunications have again been cut off. Free Staters are attacking Cashel, ■■where fighting is heavy. The rebels J3iave been ejected from Athlaea and they hold only Kilrush, in County 'Clare. Their headquarters are now in the bleak Glare mountains. The "majority of their leaders are in Galway rgaol. The Free Staters have recovered -all County Galway, souih of the rail7\vay from Ballinasloe to Galway Cardinal JDogue has threatened to * excommunicate the whole town of Dun- | '••dalk unless the disgraceful plunder and . -.murder campaign ceases immediately. I