IRISH REBEL CRIMES.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18292, 8 January 1923, Page 5

IRISH REBEL CRIMES.

ASSASSINATION IN CORK. PASSENGER TRAIN WRECKED. MANY PEOPLE INJURED. POSTMEN BOBBED OF MAILS. By Telegraphs-Press Association—Copyright. (Received 4.30 p.m.) A. and N.Z. LONDON. Jan. 6. Three men shot dead Mr. Bobert Tobin, clerk of the Cork Pensions Committee, who was formerly a member of the National arm, when he was walking to his home in Cork accompanied by his wife. Mr. Tobin received eight and died instantly. Rebels unsuccessfully attacked for seven hours a military post situated at Millstreet, County Cork. One soldier was killed and five wounded. Armed men held up a goods train at Raheny, County Dublin. They uncoupled the engine and not heeding warnings of the danger of a collision, sent off the engine at full speed toward Dublin. The engine crashed into a passenger train from Howth. Both the engine and the train were derailed and many passengers were injured. Armed -men held up 17 postmen as they left the Cork post office to commence their rounds, seized their letter-bags, • and escaped. One postman was shot and wounded. Five Free State soldiers, escorting aLabour Exchange official with unemployment money, were attacked by rebels on the steps of the Exchange at Waterford. One Free State soldier was shot dead and. two others injured seriously. The rebels escaped in motor-cars without casualties.

GOVERNMENT UNFLINCHING ONLY WAY TO PEACE. REBELS MUST SURRENDER. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Reed. 9.5 p.m.) &_ LONDON, Jan. 6Mr! W. T. Cosgrave, in a letter to General McKeon, replying to the Longford County Council's resolution asking for peace, staites: "These peace resolutions are all moonshine. Those who made war can have peace to-morrow on the only terms safe for the people. If they will not accept these terms £ney must make war at their cost. It is easy for them to try to win peace now they have lost the war." The letter (repeats the Government's determination "to show that we are a nation which will not allow bandits, gunmen' or rebellion to be . tolerated. The Government has shown patience, forbearance, and generosity. If the irregulars have had enough of war let them be honest and say so and we will welcome them, like brothers?"