IRISH TURMOIL

Otago Daily Times, Issue 18746, 27 December 1922, Page 5

IRISH TURMOIL

PROTECTING THE RAILWAYS. GOVERNMENT’S DECISION. A SYSTEM OF BLOCKHOUSES. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright LONDON, December 24. The Daily Mail’s Dublin correspondent says that the Government is determined to protect the railways by a system of blockhouses similar to that adopted in the South African War. These have been placed a few miles apart and garrisoned by from 50 to 100 troops. Orders have also been issued that in unauthorised persons found in the vicinity of the railwav line will be shot on sight. —A. and N.Z. Cable. WOUNDING OF INSPECTOR DALY. RECONCILIATION WITH ULSTER. MR COSGEAVE’S HOPES. DUBLIN, December 25. Free State troops at Portobello Barracks are searching the houses for two assailants who stole behind Inspector Daly, of the Criminal Investigation DA partment, and fired three shots into his back, wounding him seriously. Talk of reconciliation with Ulster continues. Mr Cosgrave, ih a statement, expressed the hope that union, will not be too far distant.—A. and N.Z. Cable. CHRISTMAS IN IRELAND. SIR JAMES CRAIG’S MESSAGE. LONDON, December _ 22. There is some evidence of the Christmas spirit in Ireland, where eight former officers of the Republican Army, who had taken no part in the fighting since the truce was signed, sent a letter to the Dublin Press appealing to the belligerents to make peace. Sir James Craig, in a message to the Ulsterites, says: “God grant a year of peace and good-will, not only for Ulster, hut for the whole of Ireland I pray that the new Governments may he given a fair trial, so that each, within its own sphere, shall be able to work for the advancement of the people, and that the dissensions which have tom the land may disappear.”—A. and N.Z- Cable.