IRELAND

Otago Daily Times, Issue 18735, 13 December 1922, Page 5

IRELAND

INCENDIARIES AT WORK. REBEL. EXCESSES. A FIENDISH OUTRAGE. Press Association—By Tclcgrapli—Copyright LONDON, December 11. damage done by the incendiaries was principally at Mr' M’Garry’s house, in which the only occupants were Mr M'Garry’s wife, his mother, and three children. Five armed men pushed his wife into a room at the revolver point, poured petrol over the rooms and stairs, and set fire to the house. His mother appealed to the raiders to be allowed to remove the children, who were sleeping upstairs. They refused; but yMr M'Garry’s wife rushed up the blazing staircase and rescued the children, who were badly burnt. One is not expected to recover. Mrs M'Garry’s hair was burnt off, and her hands and feet and breast were scorched. The house was completely gutted. The raiders also refused to allow the removal of a child from Mr Dunphy’s house, but the fire died out. Mrs WvsePower’s house was bombed, but little damage was done.—A. and N.Z. Cable. THE SENATE. LONDON, December 11. The Senate met to-day. The new Senators were sworn in. Dr Sigerson was elected chairman pro tem. • The permanent election will take place to-morrow. The public will not be admitted. —A. and N.Z. Cable. EXECUTION REPRISALS. DE VALERA’S MANIFESTO. HATRED OF ENGLAND. LONDON. December 11. The Daily Mail’s Dublin correspondent says: “In a mysterious bulletin, Mr de Valera's typewritten journal, which appears with clockwork regularity, how and where no one knows, is published a rebel manifesto in reply to the Government’s execution reprisals. In defiant language it foreshadows bloodshed. It says that the Republicans are neither terrified nor dismayed. They have consecrated their lives to their cause. Let those who by word or deed sanction reprisals know that for them there will be no ease or peace till this monster begotten of England is utterly and finally destroyed. ' “In the same number of the bulletin Mr de Valera’s Cabinet gives its version of affairs leading un to the present nosition, and declares that the spirit of England is at the bottom of the trouble."’ — A. and N.Z. Cable. A REBEL COUP. NATIONAL BARRACKS SEIZED. LONDON, December 11. (Received Dec. 12, at 7.30 p.m.) One hundred rebels rushed the national army barracks at Garrick-on-Suir and took prisoner the garrison. They then rounded no 30 members of the national army in the streets and kinema theatres. The rebels released the nationals after setting fire to the barracks, the hospital, and the post office. Later national reinforcements arrived, and were fired on from a hill.—A. and N.Z. Cable. THE REBELS DEFIED. ' LONDON, December 11. (Received Dec. 12,'at 7.55 p.m.) Mr Martin Fitzgerald, proprietor of the Dublin Freeman’s Journal, whom the Republicans ordered to leave Ireland under threat of death, has cabled that he will defy the rebels, and will refuse to leave Ireland.—A. and N.Z. Cable.