IRELAND

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 12 October 1922, Page 5

IRELAND

FIGHT IN PRISON.

PASTOEAL BY IRISH HISEABCHY

CRIMES BY - REBELS l CONDEMNED

BY CABLE—PEESS ASSOCIATION— COPY KISHT

LONDON, Oct. 11. In the Dublin Provisional Parliament, replying to questions in regard to the outbreak at Mountjoy Prison, the President said the official report

showed that three guards were dead and two wounded. One prisoner was dead and two wounded. Two land mines were found in cells, indicating co-operation from outside. 'He: promised to enquire" into the matter and see that precautions in future were full. : 1..

A meeting of the Irish Hierarchy at Maynooth issued a pastoral strongly condemning the revolt and the guerilla warfare against the Free State Government. It declares the killing of Nationalist soldiers is murder before God. It denounces robberies, the destruction | of roads and. railways and other out-. ) rages, and announces that persons guilty of such crimes will not be given absolution or admitted to Communion if they persist in: such evil courses. .Any priests approving of the insurrection are false to. their office and guilty of the gravest scandal, and will not be allowed to.retain the faculties held from the Hierarchy.^ l . Tweb.ty-fiye irregular prisoners at i the courthouse at Kantury, County Cork, overpowered the; guqlrd 'and seized rifles and ammunition Vand escaped. The Nationals are actively searching for them. —Reiiter. ■ LONDON, Oct. 10. The autumn session of the Ulster Parliament, has opened. ( - The Premier (Sir James Craig) said Parliament had met under niore satis- | factory conditions than on any occasion since self-government. Ulster would not go under the Dublin Parliament so long as he held office. No man f in his senses would suggest any other course than voting out the Free State when the time came.—Aus,-N.Z. Cable Assn. ■. ■■ ■ ■'■■■ ■■■'■ ' - ■■. : ■■•