IRISH OUTRAGES

Otago Daily Times, Issue 18765, 19 January 1923, Page 5

IRISH OUTRAGES

STREET FIGHTING IN DUBLIN. NEW USB FOR MOTOR-LORRY. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright LONDON, January 17. Irish rebels piled a motor-lorry with grey blankets, in which rebels, armed with rifles, were hidden. When the lorry reached College Green, barrels and rifles appeared from the blankets and firing commenced. Women shrieked, and, following the example of the men, threw themselves on their, faces in the street. Meantime the motor driver went at full speed down Grafton street and other parts of the city. The Free Staters replied to the rifle and bomb fire with rifles and revolvers. Several civilians were wounded, and at' least one wohian was killed. The rebels delivered three other attacks in Dublin, including one each on Freeman s Journal office, the Broadston railway station, and the Portobello barracks. Thousands of people who were leaving the theatres and cinemas were endangered. • Free State soldiers were, wounded: also a priest and other civilians. —A. and i\.Z. Cable. ATTACK ON AEROPLANE. LONDON, January 17. (Received Jan. 18, at 9.10 p.m.) It is officially announced that Irregulars in Countv Kerry attacked an army aeroplane. The pilot machine-gunned the attackers, who fled.—A. and N.Z. Cable. > THE DEATH PENALTY. LABOUR’S OPPOSITION. LONDON, January 17. (Received Jan. 18, at 9.10 p.m.) Mr Johnson, the Labour leader in the Dail Eireann, moved a resolution disagreeing with the IVee State Army Council’s orders imposing the death penalty by court-martidl for aiding and conspiring murder, manufacturing arms, possessing arms, uniforms, or documents endangering the safety of the State national forces or police, and for assisting any prisoner to escape.—A. and N.Z. Cable.