WAR ON IRISH PEOPLE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 18204, 25 September 1922, Page 8

WAR ON IRISH PEOPLE.

RUTHLESS REBEL TACTICS. ; DIRE PLIGHT OF KERRY. STARVING PEASANTRY. By Telegraph—Press Association-Copyright. (Received 11.15 p-m.) A. and N.Z. LONDON Sept. 2S. All telegraph and telephone wires and railway lines in County Kerry have been destroyed by rebels, who have concentrated most of their forces in the mountains, and are carrying on operations with renewed activity daily. Eree Staters are hampered by broken bridges and barricaded roads, and are constantly ambushed from mountain tops. A strong torce is required to dislodge the rebas. The plight of the civil population is serious. Brigandage is rampant, and hundreds of families are without wort and on the verge of starvation. The object of the rebels seems to be to starve the people into submission. OUTRAGES ES T ULSTER. CONSTABULARY AMBUSHED. REBEL BRIGADIER KILLED. By TelegraDh-Press Awociation-Copyxisat A. and N.Z. LONDON, Sent. 23. Latest, report* **™ Iroi . aDd rtl^ ;UCa , t ! a recrudescence, d fighting in Uls*.r, U» addition to continued warfare in the South. Two Ulster constables were ambushed near Markethill, one being wounded. A Pj rtrol i'rom Clogher, Tyrone, was ambushed on the road to MonaghWL It returned the fire, and the amba-A party fled, abandoning ■. ammunition aa£ &M dressxs^- ; cutblocking the road with trees. Shots were fired at a sentry in tiw neutral son* on the Fermanagh border. There is -o sign of the end of the Irish postal strike. The staffs are gradually increasing, but commercial people are organising their own letter deliveries. The principal news from the South-is of attacks on Macnxan, and a report that rebels at Newport"'ised machine guns, bombs and rifles, 'Bis troops replied and vigorous firing continued for four or five hours. The resitfenta were terrorised, but the attackers were.gventaftliy forced to retire. : Brigadier Devins, an anti-treaty member, in the Dail Eireann, "Professor Macneill's son, Brian, and four other rebels , were killed in battle with Free State troops in the SHgo mountains. Macneill's brothers are serving in the Free State army. * .' DEBATE ON CONSTITUTION. COWARDICE REPUDIATED. Al tod.N.Z. LONDON. Sept. 22. The Dail JSreann carried ge second reading of the Constitution Rill - «rf +J votes to IS! Mr. Gavan Duffy condoned the constitution as less wide than the treaty. He charged Ministers wita lack of moral courage in abandoning th« onglnai draft; The President of the Executive, Mr. W. T. Cosgrave, aeprying, said that Mums* ters had the. moral courage to accept foil responsibility for their acts, and sufficient courage to arrest 6000 or 6000, and woujd arrest as many more if necessary to secure the oountry from danger. COST OF THB_.CIVET WAR. CLAIMS EXCEED £20,000,009. AnsjruSaa *ud N.Z. >&*!« Association. (Reci 11-6 p.r».) ~ LONDON. Sept. 23. W. T. Cosgrave informed the Dail! Eireann that compensation for property damaged since the -truce amounts to between £20,000.000 and £50,000.000. Tho Dail adopted a resolution accepting the principle! that local authorities be responsible for compensation for damago done,from a future undefined date,