IRISH REBELLION

Otago Daily Times, Issue 18768, 23 January 1923, Page 7

IRISH REBELLION

ELEVEN MORE EXECUTIONS. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright LONDON, January 21. Tho Free State Government announces five executions in Athlonc and two in Limerick, making 11 yesterday.—A. and N.Z. Cable. TUNNEL UNDER MOUNTJOY. LONDON, January 21. An Irish Army communique says that troops discovered a tunnel being built between Momitiov Prison and the parade ground. The tunnel was already 70ft long. Several men were taken prisoner.—A. and N.Z. Cable. POST OFFICES RAIDED. RAILWAY VIADUCT DESTROYED. LONDON, January 21. Armed men raided a number of subpost offices in Cork. They burnt the offices and the books, stationery, and stamps, and stole sum,? of money. The Malahide viaduct, one of the most important bridges on the Great Northern Railway in Ireland, lias been blown up by a land mine. General Eimis, commanding the West Cork area, was walking in Cork in mufti with two other officers, when they were ordered to halt by three plain-clothes policemen. Each party, mistaking the other for rebels, opened lire. One plainclothes man was seriously wounded before the error was discovered!*—A. and N.Z. Cable. BROTHER KILLS BROTHER. FARMER’S TERRIBLE DISCOVERY. LONDON, January’ 21. Advices from Dublin state that four masked men entered the home of a farmer at Pnrtumna, Oahvav, and demanded £4O. which they knew he had just received from the market. As they were leaving, tho farmer’s son, enraged at the loss of tho money, struck one of the raiders with an axe, practically decapitating him, and the others fled. The son tore off the dead man’s mask, and found that he was his own brother.—A. and N.Z. Cable. THE HIDDEN TERROR. ARISTOCRACY OF CRIME. LONDON, January’ 21. The Dublin correspondent of the Sunday Express says; “The Irish rebels are no longer mostly illiterate people who are only eager for pillage. The hidden terror of the rebellion permeates every class of society. Cultured men and yvomen meet in saloons to discus,? the most recent outrages and plan others. Rich, well-dressed women hold meetings in drawing rooms and dugcuts, and receive donations from the United States. Reports mtide by secret emissaries from Liverpool and Glasgow, whence arms are shipned, show that those people form the aristocracy of the rebellion and provide its high command. They never carry arms or bririg themsclvc,? within the layv, but they organise all tho plots and train and educate youths, engineers, medical men, and students in the use of arms and explosives. Girls are also trained to act as secret messengers. “Dail Eireann has given the Armv Council tho widest powers. The death penalty may be imposed on anyone inciting, assisting, or counselling murder, or possessing drawings or writings against the interests of the State. “Then there are numerous passive or Tackal’ jcbcK These never appear in tho fighting-line, but stedfastly refuse to pay anv rates or taxes to the Free State authorities. “The P ree State’s problem is to stamp out the director,? nf tlm rebellion, which is a much more difficult matter than the execution nf the actual perpetrators of nutrai'es or the possessor? nf arms.” —A. and N.Z. Cable.