AIR WARFARE IN IRELAND.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 18266, 6 December 1922, Page 11

AIR WARFARE IN IRELAND.

RELIEF FORCE BOMBED.

RETALIATION FOR AMBUSH.

RAIDERS IN LIMERICK.

By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright.

(Receired 9.5 p.m.) A. and N.Z. LONDON, Doc. 4. Sixty rebels ambushed Free State troops at Brinoleaguo, West Cork. Subsequently a military aeroplane pursued and bombed the rebels, and raked with machine-guns a wood in which they took refuge, inflicting heavy casualties. This is the first time an aeroplane has been used ajainst the republican forces. It is believed that this arm will prove the decisive factor in the struggle.

Armed men took possession of a hospital in County Limerick. They raided a local bank and stole £2000.

MR. HEALY'S OPTIMISM.

99 PER CENT. FOR TREATY.

Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Rocd. 9.5 p.m.) LONDON. Dec. 4.

Mr. T. M. Healy, K.C., Governor General designate of the Irish Free State, before returning to Ireland, declared in an interview with a representative of the Westminster Gazette, that Britain had acted with scrupulous honour. Ninetynine per cent, of the Irish people were for tho treaty. The remaining formidable difficulty was tho suppression of roving armed bands, which would now be cpiickly achieved.

Tho nominees for tho Free State Senate include Lord Decics, Lord Glenavy, and Lord Dunraven, and Mr. W. B. Yeats and Mr. Georgo Russell, the well-known Irish men of letters.

IRISH CONSTITUTION BILL.

PASSED BY THE LORDS.

Australian and N.Z. Cnblo Association. (Reod. 9.5 p.m.) LONDON. Dec. 4.

On the motion for the third reading of the Irish Constitution Bill in the House of Lords, the Marquis of Landsdowne said that there had never been a case in which Parliament had been so completely denied all opportunity of shcping or modifying the contents of a great Bill.

Viscount Haldane said that the Bill really meant the settlement- of a bloody war, in which Britain had been engaged against Ireland.

Lord Carson said it was a truce in which the Government did not insert a lino for the protection of its own friends. For Loyalists, it had been a year of holl, and it was now hell.

The Bill waa road a third time.