IRISH REBEL OFFENSIVE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18296, 12 January 1923, Page 7

IRISH REBEL OFFENSIVE.

RAIDS IF' KILKENNY. TWO GARRISONS CAPTURED. TELEGRAPH. \ WIRES CUT. By Telegraph—Press —Copyright. (Received 9-5 p.m.) A. and N.Z. , LONDON, Jan. 10. Fierce engagements between Free State troops and rebels occurred at Caftan and Thomastown, in County Kilkenny, where rebels attacked and captured the Free State garrisons. Telegraph wires to Kilkenny have been cut. ANOTHER TRAIN WRECKED. DUBLIN-BELFAST MAIL. A. and N.Z. LONDON. Jan. 10. Another Irish train outrage is reported. A party of armed men held up the Dub-lin-Belfast mail train at Mount Pleasant. The party forced the- passengers to get out of the carriages, and then sent the train at full speed in the direction of Dundalk. The. train was brought' up by catch-points. Most of the coaches kept to the rails, but three of them toppled over an embankment. BARTON'S IMPRISONMENT. AGITATION FOR RELEASE. Australian and N.Z ' Cable Association. (Reed. 9.5 p.m.) LONDON, Jan. 10. The j rebels are demanding the release of R. C. Barton, a prisoner of the Free State, who is said to be in a precarious condition. Rdber.t Barton, a, brother-in-law of Erskine Childers, was one of the signatories of the Irish Treaty, but in the Dail he opposed its ratification.