ROUNDING UP THE REBELS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 18723, 29 November 1922, Page 7

ROUNDING UP THE REBELS

REPUBLICAN LEADERS CAPTURED. LONDON, November 27. (Received Nov. 28, at 7.40 p.m.) Nationalists captured Mr Humphrey Murphy, head of the Republicans in Kerry, and four other leaders.—A. and N.Z. "Cable. MARY M'SWINEY RELEASED REMOVED TO HOSPITAL. LONDON, November 27. ( Received Nov. 28, at 8.45 p.m.) Miss Mary M’Swiney has been released and taken to hospital in Dublin. Her sister Annie, when going to see her, collapsed, and was removed to a nursing home.—A. and N.Z. Cable. GOVERNMENT OFFICES. DEFENSIVE PREPARATIONS MINISTERS ARMED WITH REVOLVERS. LONDON, November 27. (Received Nov. 28, at 9.45 p.m.) The Daily Chronicle’s Dublin correspondent states that the Southern Government has taken energetic measures for its own protection. Sentries with fixed bayonets are on guard at the doors of the Government offices. Windows have been covered with bomb-proof netting, and barbed wire has been extensively used to cover the approaches at the top of the stairs. Inside there is a post “with a bullet-resist-ing shield with holes for rifles and machine-guns. Ministers who live on the premises work with revolvers handy, knowing they are marked men, and they are prepared to sell their lives dearly. Meantime the untrained men are being withdrawn from the southern army and sent to Curragh for intensive training. There are now 30,000 men 1 in the National Army, while the Republicans are estimated at 3000, but the latter arc receiving plenty of arms and ammunition from Germany and the United States.—A. and N.Z. Cable.