IRISH AFFAIRS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 18755, 8 January 1923, Page 5

IRISH AFFAIRS

REVISING LAND TENURE. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright LONDON, January 5. Tht Daily Mail’s Dublin correspondent states: The Government. is preparing a Bill to remedy defects in the Land Acts, which should do much to remove landlordism, the bugbear of the Irish peasant, enabling the peasant and small farmer to become tenants and owners. REBEL OUTRAGES. ATTACK ON ESCORT. LONDON, January 5. Five Free State soldiers, who were escorting a labour Exchange official with unemployment money, were attacked by Irregulars on the steps of the exchange at Waterford. One Free State soldier was shot dead and two others were injured seriously. The Irregulars escaped in motor cars without casualties.—A. and N.Z. Cable. TRAIN WRECKERS. MURDERS IN CORK. LONDON, January 6. (Received Jan. 7, at 5.5 p.m.) Armed men held up a goods train at Reheny. They uncoupled the engine, taking no heed of warnings of the danger of a collision, and sent off the engine at full speed towards Dublin. The engine crashed into a passenger train from Howth, and both were derailed, many passengers being injured. Armed men also held up 17 postmen, as they left the Cork Post Office to commence their rounds. They seized the letter bags and escaped. One postman was wounded. Three of the men were shot dead. At Cork, Robert Tobin, clerk of the Cork Pensions Committee, and formerly a member of the National Army, while walking towards his home accompanied by his wife, received eight wounds and died instantly. Irregulars unsuccessfully attacked, for seven hours, the military post in Mill street, Cork. One soldier was killed and five wounded.—A. and N.Z. Cable. THE TERMS OF PEACE. LONDON. January 7. (Received Jan. 8, at 0.5 a.m.) Mr Cosgrave, in a letter to General McKcon, replying to the Longford County Council’s resolution asking for peace, states that these peace resolutions are all moonshine. Those who make war can have peace to-morrow on tho onlv terms that are safe for the people. If they will not accept these terms they must make war at their own cost. It is'easy for them to try to win peace now that they have lost tho war. The, letter repeats th? Government’s determination “to show that we are a nation which will not allow bandits and gunmen nr rebellion to be tolerated. The Government has shown natience, forbearance, and generosity. If the Irregulars have had enough of war. let them be tho first to snv so. We will welcome them like brothers.'’ 7 ’ —A. and N.Z. Cable.