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Otago Daily Times, Issue 18867, 21 May 1923, Page 7

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HOSTILITIES RENEWED. HEAVY BIKING IN DUBLIN. Press Association—By Telegraph.—Uopyrigut LONDON, May 19. (Received May 20, at 5.5 p.m.) After three weeks’ lull, fighting broke out in Dublin on Friday night. Very heavy firing was heard between 11 o’clock and midnight, all over the city. The principal military barracks were attacked and several Free State patrols were sniped .it from the roofs. The firing stopped at midnight, and the city was quiet again.—A. and N.Z. Cable. DEPORTEES’ ALLEGATIONS. AN EMPHATIC DENIAL. LONDON, May 18. Military headquarters issues a total denial of the alleged ill-treatment of the deportees. The statement that one rrtan was kept hanging by his hands from the wall is characterised as an absurd and malicious falsehood.. —A. and N.Z. Cable. On his return to London on Thursday Councillor Purcell, one of the deportees, stated that the deportees, owing to their bad treatment at Mountjoy Prison, had tried to telegraph protests to Mr Bridgeman, but the wording had been interfered with. Their letters and food parcels had also suffered interference. He had proof that some of the deportees had been taken to the basement and beaten with jafle butts. One was put against the wall and kept hanging bv his hands 7ft from the ground for two hours. He was then taken down and kept handcuffed for three days. Mr Purcell said he himself had suffered from lumbago and was refused extra blankets and medical treatment. Another deportee contracted German measles, but was forced to mix with the other internees. The armed guards were hostile and impertinent, and threatened them with revolvers on the slightest provocation.