CRIME IN IRELAND.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 15874, 13 July 1922, Page 3

CRIME IN IRELAND.

RAIDS BY BANDITS.

STRUGGLE BETWEEN FREE STATERS AND REBELS.

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Bandits held up the Dublin-Belfast mail traiii at .Mount Pleasant, near tho frontier, and stole bags of registered letters.

Tho Morning Poet's Belfast correspondent reports that rail and road traffic conditions in this section are becoming worse. Kvery day armed men operate with impunity in tho vicinity of Dun-. dalk, looting'wholesale. Their victims include) an aged lady nurse, who was robbed of all she Jiad and left on the roadside destitute. Loyalists are tho principal .sufferers, but the bandits are not respecting creeds or parties. Provincial reports show fluctuating fortunes on both sides, though the Free Staters generally succeed when in conflict.

A party of Free Staters in a lorry in O'Connell Street, Dublin, were ambushed by civilians armed with revolvers and bombs. The latter fled when attacked and iki( casualties were recorded. It is belioved tho rebels intend to make a determined stand in Cork and Limerick, whose communications with Dublin are cut. Official reports are guarded, but cithers report many affrays more or less serious.

Free Staters proceeding from Drumore to Letterkenny were ambushed, and oaie killed and two wounded, and one is missing.

The rebels are conscripting labor in Donegal, using violence where necessary. Twelve women were seized and removed from Glenveagh Castle. Women and girls are fleeing from the countryside to safe localities.

Later reports state that a second Free Slater died in hospital from wounds received in the Letterkenny fray. Tho Free Staters have re-captured Wexford, the rebels bolting.