ARISTOCRATIC REBELS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIV, Issue 611, 22 January 1923, Page 5

ARISTOCRATIC REBELS.

HIDDEN TERROR IN IRELAND.

. FREE STATE’S DIFFICULT PROBLEM.

Ry Electric Telegraph—Copyright. Received January 22, 9.65 a.m. LONDON, Jon. 21. The Sunday Express’s Dublin correspondent says that Ireland’s rebels are no longer mostly illiterates who are only eager for pillage. The hidden terror of the rebellion permeates every class of society. Cultured men and women meet in saloons to discuss the most recent outrages and to plan others. Rich, well dressed women hold meetings in drawing-rooms and dug-outs and receive donations from the United States. ‘

Reports made by secret emissaries from Liverpool and Glasgow, whence arms are shipped, show that these people form the aristocracy of the rebellion and provide for its high comiriiuicl. Tlmy never carry arms or bring themselves within the law, but they organise ilil the plots, and train educated youths, engineers, medicos and students in the use of anus and explosives. Girls are also trained to act as secret messengers. Dail Eireann has given the Army Council the widest powers. The death penalty may be imposed on anyone inciting, assisting or counselling murder, or possessing drawings or writings against the interests of the State.

Then there are numerous passive or “jackal” rebels. These never appear in the fighting line,, but steadfastly refuse to pay any rates or taxes to the Free State authorities. The Free State’s problem is to stamp out the directors of the rebellion, which is a nuoh more, difficult matter than the execution of the actual perpetrators of the outrages or the possessors of arms. —A. and N.Z. cable. TRAGEDY IN FARM HOUSE. MAN KILLS RIS BROTHER. Received January 22, 12.35 p.m. LONDON, Jan. 21. Advices from . Dublin state that four masked men entered the home of a farmer in Portumna, Galway, and demanded £4O which they know he had just received from tbp market. As they were leaving, the farmer’s son, enraged at the loss of the money, struck one of the raiders with an axe, practically decapitating him, .and the others fled. The son tore off the dead man’s mask and found he was his own brother,—United Service. WRECKING OF A TRAIN. DRIVER AND FIREMAN KILLED. LONDON, Jan. 20. Thirty armed rebels have been responsible for a desperate tram wrecking at Ardfert, County Kerry. They removed the line over a culvert and held up the linesmen so that thoy were unable to warn the driver of a goods train from Limerick. The train fell over the embankment, killing the driver and fireman. This crime will probably be followed by the execution of certain persons under sentence of death at Tralee, who have been spared on the undertaking that the railway would not be interfered ,ivith.—A. and N.Z. cable. FOUR MORE EXECUTIONS. i LONDON, Jan. 20. Four men have been executed at Tralee, after their conviction by court martial for being in possession of ajpns and ammunition.—A. and N.Z. cable. ADDITIONAL OUTRAGES. VIADUCT DESTROYED. Received January 22, 9.15 a.m. LONDON, Jan. 21. The Malahid viaduct, one of the most important bridges on the Great Northern Railway in Ireland, has been blown, up by a land mine. Armed men raided a number of sub-post offices in Cork, burned the office books, stationery and stamps, and stole sums of money. The Free State Government announces five executions in Athlone and two in Limerick, making 11 yesterday.—A. and N.Z. cable.