ANOTHER DUBLIN MURDER.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 18280, 22 December 1922, Page 7

ANOTHER DUBLIN MURDER.

MAN SHOT IN HIS SHOP.

EX-MEMBER OF DAIL.

ESCAPE OF ASSASSINS.

By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyrisht.

(Received 7.10 p.m.)

LONDON", Dec. 20.

A. and N.Z. Mr. James Dwyer, an ex-member of the Dail Eircann, was shot dead when serving a customer in his provision shop in Dublin. Two men entered the shop and asked if ho was Dwyer, and directly an answer had been given one of the it\cn drew a revolver and shot Dwyer through t'uo heart.

The assassins escaped through streets crowded with Christmas shoppers.

THE CLOUDS BREAKING.

MR. COSGRAVE'S MESSAGE.

DRASTIC POLICY NECESSARY.

Australian and N-Z. Cable- Association. ißeed. fi.49 p.m.) LONDON. Dee. 20.

Mr. W. T. Cosgrave, President of the Executive of the Irish Free State, in an article in the Daily Express, states: "A small armed faction wit'h a moral backing less than 2 per cent, of the population denies tho right of the Irish peopi'o to accept equal status with other members in the British Commonwealth of free nations and is now trying to produce chaos by pillage, arson and assassination. De Valera and bis supporters say that the people have no right to do wrong, arrogating to themselves the right of deciding what is wrong. For months we strove for peace, but our opponents were only emboldened bv our restraint."

After detailing the crimes of the rebels in recent months, Mr. Cosgrave concludes: "It is vital to the existence of the nation that the Government, and Army Council shall show in a plain and drastic way that they are determined to safeguard the people's Parliamentary representatives. The irregular leaders have been shot, not in a spirit »f vindictiveness, not in hot blood, not oven in just anger, but as part ol a definite policy of counter-action. The position of Ireland may seem dark, but the clouds are breaking and the Free State is firmly etablished."

REBEL BASIS OF PEACE. ONLY OUTSIDE EMPIRE. A. and N.Z. LONDON. Dec. 20. The Dublin correspondent of the Times says that the rebels halve issued a manifesto which may be taken as a definition of their attitude toward the peace proposals. It says thait Ireland never consented to enter the British Empire and never will. If Mr. de Valera had been listened to she would have had peace. The road of freedom is easier than the road to slavery.

The manifesto concludes: "We ardently desire peace and prosperity."

FREEMAN'S JOURNAL RAID.

£47,600 DAMAGES AWARDED.

Australian and N.Z. Cabl« Association. (Heed. 5.30 P m.) LONDON. Dec. 20. Mr. Justice Samuels, deciding the appeal of the proprietors of Freeman's Journal from the Dublin Recorder's decision awarding them £44,600 damages for the destruction by raiders in March last, increased the compensation to £47,600. He. pointed out that the raid was intended to silence the journal's support of the treaty.