NORTH IRISH RISING.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 18172, 18 August 1922, Page 7

NORTH IRISH RISING.

REBELS SEIZE GREENORE,

MINES PLACED IN HARBOUR.

.SABOTAGE AT TRALEE. SHUNTER AVERTS DISASTER, By TelearaDh—-Press Association—Copyrisht (Received 7.5 p.m.) A. and N.Z. LONDON. Aug. 16. The. rebels have seized Greenore, in north-east Louth, and have sown mines in the harbour, but they declare that they will not interfere with the daily steamship service from Holyhead. The rebels are massed on points commanding the harbour, and have placed machine-guns in position; with a view to preventing a landing by Free Staters.

Two hundred rebels attacked Free State troops at Bundoran, a Donegal watering place. Holiday-makers fled, terror stricken. Reinforcements are proceeding to the garrison's aid.

A series of engagements took place near Navan, County Meath, between a large party of rebels and detachments of Free State troops. Sixty-six rebels were captured.

A special constabulary post was fired on near Wattlebridge, Fermanagh, inside the Ulster border. The fire was returned. The casualties are not known.

It is generally believed that Dublin was the objective of the rebels who seized Dundalk and other points in County Louth. The swoop was undoubtedly intended as a diversion from the operations in the south. The Dundalk rebels attempted to shoot down an aeroplane, failing by a narrow margin.

Mr. Collins declares that the operations in the south of Ireland will be completed in a fortnight. So far as the military situation is concerned the new Parliament can meet any time.

Kculer's correspondent states that all the heart has gone out of the rebel resistance in the south, and numbers *r* returning to Cork hourly without their arm«. The morale of the routed force? is described by observers as deplorable The majority appear to bo sick of the whole business, and many take any op portunity to slip back to their homes.

The insurgents lost 11 killed and 4P wounded in an engagement in South Cork, While the Free State troops had six killed and 25 wounded.

Other advices state that the Irish rebel army is in a state of dissolution in all directions. There is a general movement to leave the towns for the hilly inaccessible country, where the rebels are forming roving bands, living by plunder. An enormous amount of damage is being done, and the recovery of the community is severely handicapped through the wholesale destruction of roads and railway bridges.

An alarming act of sabotage is reported from Tralee, in County Kerry. Rebels captured a train and ordered the driver to evacuate the crew and start the train at full speed. The driver, fireman and inspector all refused to obey, although revolvers were levelled at their heads. Ex-railwaymen among the rebels started the train, but a shunter near Tralee turned the train, which was travelling at great speed, into a siding, thus preventing a great disaster in Tralee, where the line traverses congested areas. Eight armed men waylaid two bank managers from Ballinamorc, County Cavan, when on the way to branches at Swanlinbar. and robbed them of £2000. Another bank manager passed the spot a Jew minutes previously.

Greehore is situated at the north of Carlingford Lough, on the western shore. The opposite shore is Ulster territory. Tho port has been largely developed by the Ixmdon and North-Western Railway Company, which owns the pier and railways joining the Irish Great Northern system at Dundalk, which is 12J miles away. A regular service of passenger steamers, controlled by the company, runs to Holyhead. Wales.

MR. GRIFFITH'S FUNERAL.

DEEP NATIONAL GRIEF. IMPRESSIVE DEMONSTRATION. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Heed. 5.5 p.m.) LONDON. Auk. 16. Sorrowing people came from all parts of Ireland to pay their last tribute to Mr. Arthur Griffith to-day. Never before has there been seen such a demonstration in Ireland. The funeral ceremonies began with a Requiem High Mass at the cathedral. The coffin was draped with the green, white, and yellow flig of the Free State. The Archbishop of Dublin pronounced tho finaT absolution, and then f.ho coffin was borne to the hearse by Mr. Michael Collins, who wore the green and gold-braided uniform of Commandcr-ih-Chief of the Free State Army, members of the State Cabinet, and other army officers.

Everywhere there were signs of deep national grief. Dense crowds 'lined the route to tho Glasnevin Cemetery. Tho cortege was headed by Free State troops, with Mr. Michael - Collins, followed by the headquarters staff, members of Government and the Dail and representatives of national organisations and municipalities throughout the Free State

Mr. W. T. Cosgrove, who is actingchairman of the Provisional Government, in an oration at the graveside, said that Mr. Griffith having signed the treaty " had no dishonest reservations, but a fixed determination to deal fairly with the British as they had dealt fairly with us."

Following ,the oration the "Last Post" was sounded, and the great crowd knelt and offered up a last silent prayer.

The Stock Exchange, banks, and business houses in Dublin were closed.

No untoward incident occurred