OPEN WARFARE CEASES

New Zealand Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 11296, 23 August 1922, Page 5

OPEN WARFARE CEASES

IRISH REBELS’ TAGTIGS GENERAL ADOPTION OF GUERRILLA METHODS. GOVERNMENT’S STRENGTH. By Telegraph—Press Asen. —Copyright. Australian and N.Z. Oahie Association. (Received August 22, 8.30 p.m.) LONDON, August 21. All semblance of open warfare between the Free Staters and the rebels has ended. From Donegal to Cork every city and important township is in the hands of the Government. The rebels are living the lives of bandits, conducting 'guerrilla warfare and lying in ambush. ART. O’BRIEN RELEASE FROM PRISON. (Received August 22, 9.5 p.m.) LONDON, August 22. Art. O’Brien, head of the SelfDetermination League, who was arrested in Dublin three weeks ago while attending a funeral, has been released. MONEYS FROM U.S.A. CLAIMED BY FREE STATE. AN INJUNCTION GRANTED. (Received August 22, 10.30 p.m.) NEW YORK, August 21. Mr Timothy Smiddy, representing Mr Michael Collins, obtained a Supreme Court injunction restraining the 3>e Valera faction from obtaining 2,300,000 dollars, representing moneys obtained from Irish sympathisers in the United States, on bond® issued by the Irish Republic. Mr Smiddy contended that the Irish Free State is the free Ireland for which Irishmen had been fighting, and is entitled to the funds although the latter were raised on bonds of the republic. He asserted that if Mr De Valera obtained the funds a further rebellion against the present Irish Government would result and needless bloodshed continue. The view of the majority of the people of Ireland favoured the English treaty. The legal possession of the funds was invested in three trustee®, De Valera, Fogarty, and O’Mara. Fogarty, the Mayor of Limerick, alone was an adherent of the Irish Free State.

The settlement of the dispute will he submitted to the local courts.