ATTACKS IN DUBLIN

New Zealand Times, Volume L, Issue 11433, 1 February 1923, Page 6

ATTACKS IN DUBLIN

LEADING 'OFFICIALS’ HOUSES BLOWN TO ATOMS. PRESSMEN SINGLED OUT. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.w-Copyright. Australian and N.Z. Cable AssoeiMion LONDON, January 30. A grave outbreak by irregulars occurred on Monday night, when tho houses of jitatc officials and the relatives of Ministers and member's of the Dublin Press were attacked. The residence of Air Corrigan, Chief State Solicitor, was blown to atoms. Mrs Corrigan and the children and the maid were evicted. The explosion shook the neighbourhood, and furniture was Jittered over a hundred yards. A house adjoining the home of Mr Robert Donovan, leader writer for “Freeman’s Journal,” for which it is presumed the attack was intended, was entered by irregular®, who evicted the occupants and destroyed the building by a mine. LAND MINES. Armed men visited tho residence cf Mr Brewster, manager of the “Independent” newspaper, wrecked the furniture and ignited the premises. The fire brigade extinguished tho flames after three rooms had been seriously damaged. Armed men destroyed 500 tons of hay at the homo of Mr Joseph Mooney, director of the “Independent” newspaper. The approach of a detective patrol alarmed men, who dropped a parcel outside tho homo of Sir John Arnott, chairman of directors of tile “Irish Times.” The parcel contained a land mine. The home of Mr Lawrence Flanagan, President Cosgrave’s brother-in-law, was ignited, hut the flames were extinguished before the building was gutted. o Bomb attacks were made on patrols and military posts as a feint, and a passenger train was held up at Killiney, ignited, and destroyed. LIAM DEASY ARRESTED. Hie Free State authorities have arrested Liam De-asy, supposed to share with Liam Lynch the supreme control of the Irish irregulars.