IRELAND

Southland Times, Issue 19508, 6 May 1922, Page 5

IRELAND

THE MILITARY FACTIONS A TRUCE TILL MONDAY OUTRAGES BY IRREGULARS. (By Telegraph—Press Assn. —Copyright.) (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) LONDON, May 4. (Received May 5, 5.5 p.m.) A conference of army officers at Dublin Mansion House issued a statement that a truce will operate from 4 o’clock till 4 on Monday in order to give an opportunity for discovering a basis for army unification. The parties undertake to prevent aggression of all kinds. Fifty I.R.A. mutineers attacked a post occupied by eleven Ulster specials at Elagh, on the Londonderry-Donegal border. The attackers withdrew after a quarter of an I hour’s fighting. Four men in Tannoctry barracks are I holding out against continuous firing by . large numbers of irregulars. The railway line between Du nd rum and ■ Limerick was torn up during the night. Irregulars blew up the Castle Pollard barracks. During the morning, while an Antrim police party were proceeding to Ballyronan in order to relieve the barracks, which irregulars were beleaguering, they were ambushed and had to take refuge in a bog. One constable was killed. Reinforcements later relieved the garrison. FREE STATERS AND IRREGULARS. A DESPERATE FIGHT. LONDON, May 4. (Received May 5, 8.30 p.m.) A desperate fight took place at Dunorana between Free State troops and irregular republicans owing to the irregulars invading the Belfast Bank and seizing £lOOO. While the irregulars were retreating the Free Staters intercepted them and opened fire, the fight taking place in the main street of the town. A girl was killed by a bullet in the abdomen. Several of the combatants were wounded.