IRELAND

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LVI, 20 April 1923, Page 5

IRELAND

A' THRILLING FIGHT

'OH A CLIFF FACE (By Electric Telegraph—Copyright). (Australian & N.Z. Cable Association). LONDON? April 19. A thrilling narrative of a 50 hours' attack on a rebel stronghold in a cliff rising sheer from the- sea on the Kerry coast, near. a. causeway overlooking the Shannon mouth, is now published. A Free State officer and three soldiers on Monday discovered a crevice barely large enough to admit a man. They climbed down and came to the month of a cave. A few feet inside they found a barricade. They got through _ this and then found' another barricade. "\V hile the Free Staters were removing it a voilev was fired from inside. Volunteer O'Neill being mortally wounded and Lieutenant Pier son seriously. TJ tu two unwounded companions replied to the fire -until Free State troops above lowered ropes and hauled the wounded officer and the other men to the top under heavy fire from the cave. O'Neill's body meanwhile was flung to the beach below, where it lay throughout the fight. Later the Free Staters made efforts to smoke out the garrison. Two mines ■wore lowered and exploded, while machine guns opened firo oil the face of the cliff, but the rebels in the cave were still tinconqnercd and seem safe, though the only alternative to surrender is starvation.-

JIM LARKIN

TO BE DEPORTED FROM AMERICA

WASHINGTON, April 10. The Secretary of Labour, Mr Davis, ordered the deportation of Jim Larkin to Ireland On the ground that he is an anarchist. Larkin, who was recently pardoned by the Government of New York State after serving part of a fiveyear sentence for violations of the espionage law, was associated with James Connolly's organisation of Irish citizens during the Easter rebellion in Dublin in 1916.

NORTHERN PA RLIAMENT

LONDON, April 19. A Bill was read a second time in the Lister Parliament making it. compulsory for civil servants to take the oath of allegiance to the King and northern Government. It will at a later date he proposed to include school teachers. SHIPPING STRIKE LONDON, April 19. A conference with the Ministry of Lafbour with a view to settling the Dublin shipping strike ended in a deadlock. Shipping continues idle The employers insist that seamen and firemen must accept the. national wage cut already accepted in England and North Ireland.