MORE BLOODSHED

New Zealand Times, Volume L, Issue 11412, 8 January 1923, Page 8

MORE BLOODSHED

RELENTLESS IRISH REBELS ' SERIOUS OUTRAGES DURING WEEK-END. A COLD-BLOODED MURDER. Bv Telegraph—Press Assn —Copyright Australian and N. 15. Cable Association (Received January 7, 5.5 p.m.) LONDON, January 6. Armed men held up a goods train at Raheny. They uncoupled the engine, taking no heed of the danger of a collision, but sent off the engine, at full spded towards Dublin. The ( engine crashed into a passenger tram from Howth, and both were derailed, many passengers being injured. Armed men also held up seventeen postmen as they left _ the Cork Post Office to commence their rounds. They seized the letter-hags, and escaped. One postman was wounded. Three men shot dead, at Cork, Robert Tobin, clerk of the Cork Pensions Committee, and formerly a member of the National Army, while jie was_ walking towards his home, accompanied by his wife. Tobin received eight wounds, and died instantly. Irregulars unsuccessfully attacked for seven hours a military post in Mill street, ' Cork. One soldier was killed and five were wounded. LONDON, January 5. Five Free State soldiers, escorting a Labour Exchange official with unemployment money . were attacked by irregulars at the steps of the Exchange at Waterford. One Free State soldier was shot dead, and two others were seriously wounded. The irregulars escaped in a motor-car without casualties. “ALL MOONSHINE” PEACE RESOLUTIONS. MATTER IN REBELS' HANDS. (Received January 8, 12.5 a.m.) LONDON, January 7. President Cosgrave, in a letter to General McKeon, replying to the Longford County Council’s resolution asking for peace, states: ‘‘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 won’t accept the terms, they 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 we are a nation which won’t allow bandits, gunmen, or a, rebellion to be tolerated. The Government has shown patience, (forbearance, and generosity. If the irregulars have had enough of war, let them be the soonest to say 60. We will welcome them like brothers.” BUGBEAR OF PEASANT REMOVINGj LANDLORDISM. LONDON, January 5. The “Daily Mail’s” Dublin correspondent says the Government js preparing a bill to /emedy the,: defects in the Land Act, which will do much.to remove “landlordism,” the bugbear of the Irish peasant, and to. enable the peasant small farmer to become the tenant-owner.